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It’s good to be Queen – LeMasney Consulting

It's good to be Queen - LeMasney Consulting
It's good to be Queen - LeMasney Consulting
It's good to be Queen - LeMasney Consulting
It’s good to be Queen – LeMasney Consulting

So there’s lots of reasons for this. First I was thinking of my beautiful wife, and how by mutual agreement, she pretty much has the power in our house, lives, and marriage. She does so much more with it than I would anyway. I also was thinking about the game of chess, which my 5 year old Jack and I have begun to explore in simple pawn only games. I was holding one of the queens in my personal board set which I got for my birthday about 5 years ago, and thinking about how beautiful the forms are, and it all came together as inspiration for this design.

In Inkscape, I imported a photo of a queen, and used the guidelines in Inkscape to create horizontal markers for changes in the form from top to bottom. Using the rectangle and conversion to path, I used the node tool to shape out the queen. I added a checkerboard in the back, the text over top, and finally, I used the new 0.48 beta spraypaint tool in order to create the bokeh effect you see floating in the background.

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Save NJ LIbraries – LeMasney Consulting

Save NJ LIbraries - LeMasney Consulting
Save NJ LIbraries - LeMasney Consulting
Save NJ LIbraries - LeMasney Consulting
Save NJ LIbraries – LeMasney Consulting

This is actually Sunday’s post, even though it’s late in the day, but this was the first opportunity I had to be online today. I have posted this elsewhere, and I feel very strongly about the short sightedness of cutting Library programming, databases, and other funding. I understand that budgets must be kept, but it seems like other costs, like million dollar state run college coach salaries could be reduced or removed before dismantling the beneficial programs and positions of many people, because as many have said, that’s a hell of a lot of books. Support your local Library — they need you right now more than ever.

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89 of 365 is a wild sunburst in #Inkscape @Robin Milne

Wild Sunburst - LeMasney Consulting
Wild Sunburst - LeMasney Consulting
Wild Sunburst - LeMasney Consulting
Wild Sunburst – LeMasney Consulting

So this is in response to a 365 request from a friend and loyal workshop attendee, Robin Milne, who in noticing my love for the spiro spline effect sent me a crazy image of an object that had hundreds of beautiful squiggly spiro like lines. I have no idea what the object is, and in a way, I prefer not to, as it’s beautiful as simply an object.

Spiro monster from Robin Milne
Spiro monster from Robin Milne

So at any rate, I decided I was going to go back to an old standby theme, the Sun, especially in celebration of the Spring Equinox. I took Robin’s image, I brought it into Inkscape, bitmap traced it, duped and rotated it a few times, changing the color each time. Then I added a central ellipse to make it clearly a sun, finally working into all of it with the calligraphy tool.  I built a sunset styled gradient in the background, and painted in a landscape below. For a final touch, I added a candy coating effect to the sun. I enjoyed making it, and I thank Robin for caring enough to send an image, and you for caring enough to stop by. Happy spring!

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88 of 365 is a spring flower mindful of winter in #inkscape

Spring flower - LeMasney Consulting
Spring flower - LeMasney Consulting
Spring flower - LeMasney Consulting
Spring flower – LeMasney Consulting

Tomorrow is 2010’s spring equinox, and so I thought I’d celebrate with a highly stylized flower design.

In Inkscape, I started by adding two inline circles, and then connecting them with a Bezier path to create the dual opposing dewdrop shape. I then unioned these and duplicated them, moving the center of rotation between the two shapes. This made essentially the gray shape you see there. Next, I duplicated and path-outset the shape to make the light blue shape. I did the same for the deep blue shape. For the shadow effect behind the light blue and deep blue shapes, I duped those shapes, changed them to gray, and gave them some blur. I added the blue circles using the ellipse tool. Finally, I used the candy coating effect (dupe, intersect with circle, apply gradient) for the gray shape and each of the blue circles separately.

Hope you enjoyed it, spring’s right around the corner now.

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87 of 365 is a twitterbird attacking a young boy in #inkscape @janieh

Twitter bird attacking a young boy - LeMasney Consulting
Twitter bird attacking a young boy – LeMasney Consulting

Hey all. This is a 365 request from my very good friend Janie. She sent me a funny and exciting picture of someone very dear to her going down a slide, and I decided to take it somewhere different in Inkscape. I was especially inspired for this image by the one below, one that I use to discuss sometimes non-ambiguous emotion in design.

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86 of 365 are 9 of my favorite technology sets in #inkscape

9 important technologies
9 important technologies

Hey, all. I decided that today I’d celebrate some of my favorite technologies. IconDock at http://icondock.com made this easy on me, as they distribute vector based icons for a whole boatload of social media and technology companies in a icon pack. However, that’s not what you see here. I took my own favorite icons from that set, sized them up, converted to bitmap (ctrl-m), bitmap traced them to get an outline, and then aligned the outlines into a 9 up grid. Then the fun began. Using the calligraphy tool in Inkscape, along with the eyedropper tool and the original icons, I would use the eyedropper to pick colors from the originals, then apply the colors in a painterly fashion on top of the outlines I had created. After I was satisfied with all of the color, I brought the outlines back to the front. Really loved this process!