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Everything is amazing and no one is happy – Louis C.K. cc-by lemasney

Post author By lemsy
Post date 2010-07-14
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Everything is amazing, and no one is happy. Louis C.K. cc-by lemasney

Louis C.K. says it best. You could also say that everything is happy, and no one is amazing. Or nothing is amazing, and noone os happy, or everything is okay, and so is everyone. However, for those of us in America, on the coasts, with ubiquitous technology and bandwidth, endless 3g networks, clean water, plenty of food, GPS, cars, bikes, jobs, and so on, everything is amazing. Despite those things, I know more people than not that aren’t any more happy despite those things. It’s a little reminder that either we need to be more appreciative of what we have, or that we need to put down all that stuff, run from it, and not look back. I prefer to appreciate those things, and I like to think I’m very happy. 🙂

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Gordon Ramsay as a lion by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #illustration #Inkscape #creativecommons

Post author By lemsy
Post date 2010-07-11
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Where to start? When I asked for suggestions for this project, my very good friend and ideological brother Tim McGee asked me to illustrate one of his favorite William Butler Yeats poems, The Second Coming, which I’ve included below. He said that it is mindful of summer solstice for him, and I had hoped to have it for him by the solstice, but I had some trouble determining exactly how to illustrate it. The passage of concrete ideas in the last part of the poem speaks a bit about why I’ve used this imagery, but I have no reason other than pure snark for using Gordon Ramsay‘s likeness. I love his shows, a guilty pleasure, and he surely comes off as though he believes he is the second coming. He’s got the look that Yeats talks about, too, I believe. I hope Tim liked it, and as usual, I hope I offended no one.

“TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? ”

– The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats on

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An illustration of the phrase “what’s up?” by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #3d #typography #drawing #greeting

Post author By lemsy
Post date 2010-06-28
3 Comments on An illustration of the phrase “what’s up?” by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #3d #typography #drawing #greeting

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An illustration of the phrase “what’s up?” by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #3d #typography #drawing #greeting

I’ll start by saying that the text in this image, and its 3D treatment were not done in Inkscape, but in a free (but not open source) version of the application called SketchUp, owned by Google, and used to build really wonderful things in three dimensions. After making the text there, I imported the exported picture from SketchUp into Inkscape, did a bitmap trace, and then used the fill tool to color the image. A fun workflow, though next time, I think I’ll use Blender, an open source 3d modeling tool.

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An illustration of a lyric from ‘Pure Imagination’ from ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ cc-by lemasney

Post author By lemsy
Post date 2010-06-15
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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Pure Imagination illustration cc-by lemasney

We’ll begin with a spin traveling in the world of my creation – Illustrated lyric from Pure Imagination, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

In this post, I’m doing a few things:

illustrating a lyric from a great song in a fantastic movie,
lamenting the remake’s poor choice of new songs,
showing sadness about the current use of this song in a commercial,
and suggesting that sometimes my work can be a bit quirky and imaginative, perhaps defying explanation.

I hope.

“Willy Wonka is a character in Roald Dahl’s 1964 children’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, its sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and the film adaptations of these books that followed. The book and the film adaptations both vividly depict an odd Wonka, a phoenix-like man arising from his creative and Strange genius. He bewilders the other characters with his antics, but Charlie enjoys Wonka’s behavior. In the 2005 film adaptation, Willy Wonka’s behavior is viewed more as a sympathetic character flaw.” curated by lemasney from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Wikiwand at https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory

“Willy Wonka (portrayed by Gene Wilder) has hidden five Golden Tickets among his famous “Wonka Bars”. The finders of these special tickets will be given a full tour of his tightly guarded candy factory as well as a lifetime supply of chocolate. During the tour, Wonka tempts each of the bad children to disobey his orders with something related to their individual character flaws. Charlie and Grandpa Joe also succumb to temptation and purposefully steal “Fizzy Lifting Drinks,” but unknowingly break the rules, violate the signed contract, forfeit the grand prize and to be yelled at by Mr. Wonka. Mr. Wonka’s experimental line of soda products that allows the drinker to fly, only to come close to death (the drinks are too strong, and therefore, not ready).” curated by lemasney from Willy Wonka – Wikiwand at https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Willy_Wonka

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85 of 365 is a double scoop cone

Post author By lemsy
Post date 2010-03-16
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Double scoop of Ice cream in a cone. — Double Scoop of ice cream in a cone.

Summer is coming. We just pushed the clocks forward. More light in the day, more warmth in the air. Summer is coming. One of the lovely things about summer for many is a nice ice cream cone in the evening. Or in the day. Anytime really. I highly recommend Dairy Delite or Gibby’s in the Bristol area of PA, but you likely have your favorite. Feel free to post it in the discussion.

Mine here is a double scoop in a cake cone: Chocolate with crystallized ginger and cherry chips, atop cappuccino with caramel and chocolate streaks, chocolate, peanut butter, and cinnamon chips. I made in in inkscape by creating the cone with the Bezier tool set to angled lines. The scoops are large ellipses with many smaller ellipses at the bottom. I duped the bottom one and flipped it horizontally to make the top one. I created a grid with the render grid tool, and clipped it to the shape of the cone. I created the various streaks and shapes in the flavored scoops with the ellipse, rectangle, calligraphy, and duplicate tools. In 0.48 I would have used the spraypaint tool, but I just got my hands on it, and am looking forward to playing with it. I added the text, and created a subtle background using the gradient and calligraphy tools, slightly blurred. Finally, I created the candy coating effect for the shine on the top cone. I hope you enjoyed it, and I thank you for stopping by.

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54 of 365 is snowpocalypse pinky #inkscape

Post author By lemsy
Post date 2010-02-13
2 Comments on 54 of 365 is snowpocalypse pinky #inkscape

So this image is a very specific request from a good friend of mine, Angel. She’s been paying attention to the blog for a while, and she noticed when I had a call for requests. She sent a couple of tutorials, and a very specific set of instructions, which I tried to do faithfully:

Here’s my pic. My mission, if you choose to accept ;-): Make a vector illustration in a watercolor style. Leave color pallet the same as original picture. Then create bling text underneath the portrait that says “Pink”. Choose any style you like for the background. I will post two tutorials that show what I have in mind. Thanks!

Bling text: http://www.vectordiary.com/illustrator/bling-bling-text-effect-tutorial/
Vector watercolor washes: https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-classic-vector-painting-with-watercolor-washes-and-line-art–vector-1481

One thing I especially love is that both of these tutorials were specifically written for Adobe Illustrator, which might lead the casual observer that they can’t be performed in another tool, but the ideas and skills were easily translatable for Inkscape, cause it’s just so damn rockin’.

So, as the tutorials explain, I created a pattern out of pink triangles and on a black background, I applied it to text, then duplicated/outset, and duplicated/blurred the text for an outline and a glow. I applied a multi step gradient to the outline.

Then, i took Angel’s image into the GIMP where I pushed the contrast and brightness for the cleanest trace. I tried once or twice with my trackpad to do a trace by hand, but without my tablet handy, it wasn’t doing her justice. I decided to go halfsies with the second tutorial and just do a linear bitmap trace. I then applied the watercolor technique by using the calligraphy tool set to low opacity and various shades that matched the photo palette as Angel requested. I varied the size of the brush, though again, the tablet would have done wonders here.

Finally, I added the word snowpocalypse to commemorate the background of the original image which was a mound of snow from the snowstorm of February 2010 which laid down about 2 feet over a couple of days in these parts.

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have submitted materials and ideas for the sketches, and especially Angel who I’ve co-generated a lot of design ideas with over the years. She rocks the ink like an Apocalyse Pink.