A pattern for a coffee can lantern by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
A pattern for a coffee can lantern by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
I recently came across a detailed DIY article on creating a coffee can lantern, and thought it was a great opportunity to see one’s design in a different, ahem, light. So I imagined what I might like to see flickering and dancing at 10 pm at night, and this is what I saw. I’m looking forward to cutting into the tin and seeing this bird fly a little. 🙂
A monster guitarist: Samzilla by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #rockandroll #poster
A monster guitarist: Samzilla by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #rockandroll #poster
So here is another collaboration with my great and longtime friend, Sam Pinola. Sam sent me a bitmap traced SVG of his band, and we discussed over email the idea of his band fighting Godzilla, and possibly a 3D movie effect. In the end, turning Sam into a city wrecking, bass playing iconic monster won out for me, and I modified his SVG to make this image. I hope Sam likes it, and I hope you like it too!
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Gordon Ramsay as a lion by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #illustration #Inkscape #creativecommons
Gordon Ramsay as a lion by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #illustration #Inkscape #creativecommons
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? ”
An illustration of the phrase "what's up?" by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #3d #typography #drawing #greeting
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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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A dagwood style sandwich by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #food #illustration
A dagwood style sandwich by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #food #illustration
I don’t remember much about the Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead comedies from the black and white movie era, and I remember even less from the comic strip. I seem to remember they got divorced a while back in the comic. At any rate, Dagwood’s tallboy sandwiches and the late-for-work stumbling exits stand out as the reason those movies existed. I was searching for something to sketch, and suddenly imagined one of the sandwiches from a certain perspective, and here it is. Hope you enjoyed it!
Olive branch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #peace
Olive branch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #peace
This is an olive branch, which in certain religions represents a peace-offering, but I like to think that has become somewhat universally recognized as such. It’s a simple execution in Inkscape — I used the pencil tool set to shape: triangle in to create the branch, and set to shape: ellipse I used it to create the leaves. So, if nothing else, I hope you find some peace today. I just began a two-week vacation on Monday, and so far it’s been quite peaceful. 🙂
