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A monstrous squid with a hundred eyes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration #inkscape

A monstrous squid with a hundred eyes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration #inkscape
A monstrous squid with a hundred eyes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration #inkscape
A monstrous squid with a hundred eyes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration #inkscape
A monstrous squid with a hundred eyes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration #inkscape

So today’s sketch is of a squid, which, not being a marine biologist, I think of as simply a sea creäture with 8 tentacles. And black, black eyes. Lots of eyes. So that’s what I drew here for you. A gracefully swimming black-eyed squid.

In Inkscape, I started with an ellipse, which I shaped into a thin US Mailbox type shape, then I used the pencil tool set to Spiro and shape: triangle in to create the tentacles. As a final touch I created a single black eye with a small highlight and then used 0.48’s brand new spraypaint tool which allowed me to quickly fill the space of the head with many clones of the original eye. Hope you enjoyed it!

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CJRLC Tech Committee presents: The Next 5 Years of the Mobile Web

Date: Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Venue: CJRLC Tech Committee, Princeton Public Library, Princeton, NJ

“Presentation Abstract:

During this overview John LeMasney predicts what will happen in the next 5 years of Mobile Computing. Attendees will learn about the state of mobile computing, up and coming applications, and the trends that are affecting mobile platforms.

By the end of the session, the following topics will have been discussed:

  • Connectivity
  • Hyperlocality
  • Devices
  • Applications
  • Services
  • Convergence
  • Connectedness
  • Lifestyle/Workstyle
  • Relationships
  • Imagined futures

Presentation: http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0Ad-YsRMv5bPqZGNrZm05ZndfMjI0ZHp0azdoZGg&hl=en&loop=true&autoStart=true

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A wild jumping sailfish by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #inkscape #cc #drawing #design

A wild jumping sailfish by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #inkscape #cc #drawing #design
A wild jumping sailfish by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #inkscape #cc #drawing #design

A wild jumping sailfish by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #inkscape #cc #drawing #design
A wild jumping sailfish by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #inkscape #cc #drawing #design

So, the origin of this was another 365 Request from my very good (and highly missed) friend Rob. He suggested:

“Sailfish jumping out of the water with the sun setting would be neat to see. Esp…ecially how you masterfully craft amazing images. Two to help get started, pictures: live: probably my favorite http://tinyurl.com/sailfishJump “

And so, I looked at the images, did some research of my own on Sailfish, and found some very interesting clinical creative commons licensed images. The one I settled on was at in which the sailfish is depicted in a removed, scientific style — the actual image (attributed to fishbase.com) is at and was a good place to start for the manipulation I had in mind.

So, I took the image and did a bitmap trace, which worked beautifully, and then I applied a “bend” live path effect to simulate the arc in the body that I saw in Rob’s picture and others. In order to give the fish body and depth, I used the watercolor technique of wide strokes of washy, transparent color with the calligraphy tool underneath the bitmap trace. I used a gradient to create the sea and sky, and then created some wild splashing with the same watercolor technique described above.

Thanks, Rob for the inspiration, and thanks to you for stopping by.

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58 of 365 is a jungle of vines and leaves in #Inkscape

Jungle of vines and leaves by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
Jungle of vines and leaves by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

 

Jungle of vines and leaves by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
Jungle of vines and leaves by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

So here, I wanted to play some more with text and the pencil tool. I started by typing in the word Jungle, converting it to path, and sizing it up to be readable at 500px.  Then I took the pencil tool, set as usual to shape: triangle in with spiro splines and 50% smoothing, and added vine-like shapes to the ends of each of the butts of the letterforms, to extend them. I performed a union on all of the letterforms and vine shapes, so that they all became one path, and cleaned up the joints between the letter ends and the vine beginnings. After I was satisfied with the shape, I set the color, duplicated it, and outset it twice, sending the outset path back and giving it a brighter green. I did this once again, making that outset path light yellow, with a slight blur for a glow effect.

Satisfied with the forms, I decided to create a leaf motif in the corner, which is simply an ellipse converted to path and shaped gently into a leaf form with the node tool. I added a vein to the leaf with the pencil tool using the same settings as above. I grouped those two paths into a single leaf and stem, then duplicated the leaf several more times. I created another full opacity leaf for the foreground, and many others in the background, altering the size and rotation to create a pile of leaves. I set the opacity of the background leaves to 40% or so, to let them fade into the background.

 

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Jay-Z, on to the next one by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration

Jay-Z, on to the next one by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration
Jay-Z, on to the next one by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration

Jay-Z, on to the next one by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration
Jay-Z, on to the next one by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration

I decided that enough people are telling me that they are digging the gradient based bitmap to vector translations that I want to work more often on them. Plus, my most popular posts so far (by far) are those of famous people, icons, or objects. In this sketch, I used Inkscape to take an image of Jay Z and convert it to vector, apply gradients to it, and to a rectangle based background. I then took three rectangles, converted to paths, and brought the opacity down. I’ve seen this kind of triple overlay imagery in several images related to his new album, The Blueprint 3, which I’m enjoying quite a bit. I especially like On To The Next One (feat. Swizz Beatz). I decided to twist the rectangles in space using the node tool to add some depth. If you’re interested in Jay Z and his latest album, you might be interested in seeing another direction it could have gone with the help of a producer named Alex Goose who developed .

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