Divine bovine made of text by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
Bovine made out of text
Here is the latest in my text based animals series. Cow-Schmow, she’s a bovine.
‘Bovine comes from the Latin word for “cow”, though the biological family called the Bovidae actually includes not only cows and oxen but also goats, sheep, bison, and buffalo. So bovine is often used technically, when discussing “bovine diseases”, “bovine anatomy”, and so on. It can also describe a human personality, though it can be a rather unkind way to describe someone. When Hera, the wife of Zeus, is called “cow-eyed”, though, it’s definitely a compliment, and Zeus fairly melts when she turns those big bovine eyes on him.’
from “Bovine | Definition of Bovine by Merriam-Webster” at https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bovine curated by lemasney creative. Feel free to share.
This is part two of a diptych telling a fight story. Here we have a fighter in pieces, ready to fall apart. In Inkscape I made this by creating the silhouette of the fighter, then using the bezier tool to create a shard that I duplicated and flipped on the fighter from top to bottom. I used these shards to do a path operation that cut the fighter into those shapes, which I then moved this way and that with the selector tool to make a shattered and sliced appearance.
This is part one of a diptych telling a fight story. Here we have a fighter in a firm stance, ready to defend himself. In Inkscape I made this by creating the silhouette of the fighter, then using the spraypaint tool to recreate the silhouette using exclamation points. Tomorrow, we’ll see what happened to the other guy.
This is just a simple quiet sketch of a girl skating. Even though she’s on rollerblades, the treatment is definitely intent on giving you the impression she’s on ice. Fun stuff.
A seal made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #design #typography #Inkscape
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A seal made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #design #typography #Inkscape
The latest in my series of animals made of text, a seal. For the landscape, I used Inkscape’s spraypaint tool to paint with a square made with the rectangle tool.
“Pinnipeds (/ˈpɪnᵻˌpɛdz/) (from Latin pinna “fin” and pes, pedis “foot”[2]), commonly known as seals,[a] are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic marine mammals. They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the walrus), Otariidae (the eared seals: sea lions and fur seals), and Phocidae (the earless seals, or true seals). There are 33 extant species of pinnipeds, and more than 50 extinct species have been described from fossils. While seals were historically thought to have descended from two ancestral lines, molecular evidence supports them as a monophyletic lineage (descended from one ancestral line). Pinnipeds belong to the order Carnivora and their closest living relatives are bears and musteloids (weasels, raccoons, skunks and red pandas), having diverged about 50 million years ago.” – Pinniped – Wikipedia from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinniped
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I got called out by a friend of Dan Wadlinger’s to make a Platypus. I thought it was an interesting challenge, even if I already had a very cute P animal in this series. Hope you like it!
“The platypus is among nature’s most unlikely animals. In fact, the first scientists to examine a specimen believed they were the victims of a hoax. The animal is best described as a hodgepodge of more familiar species: the duck (bill and webbed feet), beaver (tail), and otter (body and fur). Males are also venomous. They have sharp stingers on the heels of their rear feet and can use them to deliver a strong toxic blow to any foe.” curated by lemasney from Platypus | National Geographic at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/p/platypus/
“The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), also known as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth. The animal is the sole living representative of its family (Ornithorhynchidae) and genus (Ornithorhynchus), though a number of related species have been found in the fossil record. The first preserved platypus body was thought to have been a fake, made of several animals sewn together,[3] when it was first looked at by scientists in 1799.[4]” curated by lemasney from Platypus – Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus
