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A girl’s face made out of lines

An illustration of a girl's face made with serial lines using Inkscape cc-by lemasney
An illustration of a girl's face made with serial lines using Inkscape cc-by lemasney
A girl's face made out of lines by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
A girl’s face made out of lines

This one was a revelation for me. Perhaps not the best application of this tool, but it was a lot of fun to play with. I just started reading about Inkscape‘s Stitch Sub Paths Live Path Effect in Kirsanov’s The Book of Inkscape and found that it was great for lining long planes with manipulable parallel paths.

In my painting classes, I learned that it’s important to sculpt your subject with your brush to help your viewer see the way that a plane is going through space. This is a simplified way of doing just that. Very fun too.

I hope you can excuse the primitivism of this experiment, but I plan to develop my skills with it in the new year. Speaking of which, I hope you all have a great 2010.

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A girl’s face made of text cc-by lemasney #cc #design #typography

A girl's face made of text cc-by lemasney
A girl's face made of text cc-by lemasney

A girl's face made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography
A girl’s face made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography

I used path as pattern path effect tool to make a stenciled face. In this case, I started with a photo of a girl’s face, did a trace bitmap operation, made text lines in three different sizes, then converted the lines of Inkscape‘s text into paths, and used them to paint the dark areas of the face, while leaving the lighter areas a pure white. Inkscape is an amazingly versatile tool, and this is just one more example.

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Sunny side up eggs and bacon sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc-by #creativecommons #illustration

Sunny side up eggs and bacon sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc-by #creativecommons #illustration
Sunny side up eggs and bacon sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc-by #creativecommons #illustration

Sunny side up eggs and bacon sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc-by #creativecommons #illustration
Sunny side up eggs and bacon sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc-by #creativecommons #illustration

Today’s sketch is a face made of two sunny side up eggs with a side of bacon. I love me some breakfast, and with the holidays come some pretty good ones traditionally. With the face theme, I just figured I’d have some fun with eggs. In Inkscape, I used the Bezier tool to make an outline of the egg, slightly blurred (not shirred) and put two yellow ellipses (and white highlight ellipses), converted to paths and tweaked them with the node tool for the yolky eyes. I then took a wavy path, applied a simple pattern to the path, then converted to a path and colored it in for the bacon.  Then I added some streaks of various colors for the marbling. I duplicated the bacon and flipped it, since I have never seen two pieces of identical bacon, and don’t know anyone who eats one piece of bacon with two eggs. Finally, I duplicated the layered pieces of bacon and made them gray and blurred, then sent them to the back to create an underlying shadow for some depth. Fun and tasty looking.

Arts, British, Color, Egg, Fried egg, Home, Literature, World Literature, Bacon, Egg yolk, Pork, Cook

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What is this all about?

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365 Sketches is a response to a post I read tonight that suggests that I design something every day ( http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/22/design-something-every-day/ ). As an Inkscape enthusiast, I wanted specifically to share ways in which I feel that Inkscape excels as a design application. I was inspired by the post to post a sketch every day from Inkscape, something quick, minimal, and demonstrative of Inkscape’s abilities. As a theme, I’m starting with faces, but I don’t feel like I’m limiting myself just to faces. If I feel like straying from the theme, I will. I also intend to maybe post more than one post if I feel like it, or let the post skip a day if necessary. All in all though, I’m going to try to end up at the end of 2010 with at least 365 sketches.

Here’s to Inkscape!

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HRLC: Using Gimp and Inkscape

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Date: Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Venue: Highlands Regional Library Consortium at Somerset County Library.

Abstract: In this day-long workshop, we’ll go in depth to discover how to use two fantastic Open Source Design Applications: the GNU Image Manipulation Program (AKA GIMP), and Inkscape.

The GIMP provides layers, effects, painting tools, and all of the features that you have come to expect from a fully featured imaging application like Adobe Photoshop. Inkscape is a vector-based illustration and layout application, similar to Adobe Illustrator in its ability to manipulate text, shapes, paths, vector points, and colors. Because these programs are Open Source Software, you benefit from the work of thousands of volunteer and professional developers, without having to pay anything for the use of the software. In this workshop, you will learn to use these tools by doing a few projects step-by-step. By the end of this workshop you will be able to effectively use painting and drawing tools, brushes, layers, path manipulation, photo manipulation, effects, rulers and grids to meet against your most challenging design needs.

Presentation: http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Ad-YsRMv5bPqZGNrZm05ZndfMTU1ZHY3cnJoZmQ&hl=en

Commentary and notes: Some anonymous feedback from participants:

Great presenter – knowledgeable, energetic, articulate.

One of the most prepared instructors I’ve seen recently.

Mr. LeMasney was well prepared and gave an excellent presentation. Thank you.

inspirational.  Great instructor.

Presented all the elements I need to know about how to improve my work.

Speaker was very knowledgeable.

Presenter willing to answer all questions, but not getting bogged down or off track.

The wealth of information presented in a clear manner.

The instructor worked well with people at all skill levels.

I would like to stay in touch with this instructor for further support and critiquing.

Best Class Ever!

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Open Source Graphics Workshop Series

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Date: October 13th through December 10th, 2009.

Venue: Rider University, Memorial 310

Abstract: In these workshops, John LeMasney shows how to use open source (ideologically and monetarily free) software  packages Inkscape and the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) in order to create graphic design, artwork, and digital imagery.

Presentation: http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Ad-YsRMv5bPqZGNrZm05ZndfMjIwMjJrM3djY3A&hl=en

Video: [vodpod id=Groupvideo.3669457&w=425&h=350&fv=]

Commentary and notes: Details on the workshops available at

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