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77 of 365 is a call to attend an exciting event in #inkscape

TEDxNJLibraries event
TEDxNJLibraries event

Hey, all. So this is a first, and perhaps a last for 365Sketches — an advertisement. The reasons I include it here are as follows:

1. I’m excited about this event — it’s something I’ve worked with a group of wonderful people to produce. I want to have a great, rich, diverse set of attendees, such as yourselves.

2. Inkscape is used most often in my design work to advertise, and this is one of my favorite uses of it. I most often use Inkscape to arrange text, images, and shapes to convey information about an event or meeting.

Inkscape makes it especially easy to maintain another group’s existing branding, since you can use image overlays (import image), bitmap tracing, font matching (with transparency and the font tool), and color matching (with the eyedropper tool).

I hope you all check out the site, but even if you don’t I hope you consider using Inkscape for your next advertising opportunity!

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76 of 365 is a return of the monday blues in #inkscape @suzieprof

Monday blues
Monday blues

So in a followup to yesterday’s post, here is @suzieprof again, showing her true feelings for Mondays. Her face was bitmap traced. The clouds are simply unioned ellipses. The rainfall is made up of paths with dotted lines set to long-short-long-short. There are ellipses below to indicate splashes.

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74 of 365 is a dogfighter raining down bones in #inkscape

Dogfighter
Dogfighter

This is my friend Craig Smith’s dog Stanley combined with an airliner, bringing down delicious doggy goodness in the form of bones. Thanks to Craig for sharing his photos and giving me the inspiration. Inkscape makes it easy — I took Stanley and did a bitmap trace and then took the airliner and did a bitmap trace. I removed all of Stanley but his face, and I removed the body of the jet. I overlapped them, and created some goggles with ellipses, complete with lenses (low opacity fill). I created a single bone using the rectangle tool and ellipse tool, and then duplicated resized and rotated the bones to appear to be the payload. I used the calligraphy tool set to “splotchy” and low opacity to create the cloud shapes. The land and sky are a single gradient on the background rectangle. I recreated Stanley’s ears with the calligraphy tool set to a thick brush.

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72 of 365 is a pair of quick airport sketches in #inkscape

Jacksonville Airport gate C8 tarmac
Jacksonville Airport gate C8 tarmac
Jacksonville Airport gate C8 interior
Jacksonville Airport gate C8 interior

Here are two quick sketches I made in Inkscape with a wacom tablet in Inkscape while I was waiting for my flight to arrive. Going home tonight!

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70 of 365 is an homage to the Winter Olympics in #Inkscape @angelbrady

Go World
Go World

This is another answer to @angelbrady and her request for a creation of my 4 favorite Winter Olympic sports. I appreciate her suggestion, like all of the friends who have given them. Ski jumping is an amazing sport of focus, determination, and like the rest, courage. I decided to express my feelings for it here. I also wanted to congratulate the world on their participation in the games, and thank Canada for such a gracious hosting job. Go world! This was an image of a jumper that I manipulated in the GIMP thoroughly, then bitmap traced in Inkscape a few different ways, and overlapped the traces. A simple effort, but I like it a lot. Thanks again to Angel for her suggestion! Keep them coming, friends.

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67 of 365 is an observatory on a hill in #Inkscape

Observatory on a Hill
Observatory on a Hill
Observatory on a Hill
Observatory on a Hill

So this was inspired again by my five year old son Jack, who loves looking at the sky and learning about space. Right now he’s been very interested in the Mars Rovers, amongst some other things, like volcanoes, deep sea caves, and the Iron Giant. At any rate, he’s an explorer, and recently, as we were drawing together, he showed me that he was drawing an observatory. Of late, as he has been drawing, he has reminded me of a great truth, at least in my life: kids know how to draw. There’s no pretension, no theory. just a rendering of imagination. Jack draws beautifully. This drawing was made in Inkscape, starting with a node tool tweaked rectangle for the hill, the same for the body of the observatory, its windows, door, and the sky. The dome was created with the ellipse tool, and the lens with opening used the pencil tool set to shape: triangle in, the rectangle tool, the ellipse tool, and the gradient tool. The moon is an ellipse with gradient, along with another ellipse that was clipped with path/intersection with a different gradient. The stars were made with the shape tool, along with the pencil tool and the ctrl-click method to produce dots. Finally, I thought that if I was walking up a hill to an observatory, there would likely be a path, so I made a winding path, and set the line to dotted.

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