I just realized that I never really properly introduced myself. I’m John.
tags: introduction, sticker, hello, how do you do, Inkscape, design. 365, sketches, open source, creative commons, sharism
A few things about me are consistently true. One is that I’m often late. The fact that this sketch is going out at 1 a.m. the day after its post date should give you some sign of this.
tags: on time, punctuality, clock, time, timing, chronic, lateness, Inkscape, design, 365, open source, creative commons, sharism
I was born in 73. This image is essentially my childhood. I decided to take yesterday’s fairly simple vinyl inspired idea a bit further by adding 70s’-era styled colors, some groovy stars, and a polaroid burned in background. Hope you can dig it!
So, here is the result of a surprisingly positive response to my recent text based Giraffe sketch (linked below) which contains a tutorial for this process. Tim McGee suggested an alphabet of animals, an idea that immediately got me going, and Janie suggested that a series of these would be very nice. Thanks for the continuing ideas and support, friends!
Amy recently gave me a brief lesson in Hebrew. I was never really been exposed to very much Hebrew culture until later in life through friends, and I’m always fascinated with the detailed traditions and elements of that culture. I’m fairly certain even in the little bit of the Hebrew alphabetI have in this sketch, I’ve misused what I learned, because there’s this thing about dots that I just don’t get, and I’m not really clear on the differences in some of the characters. The characters you see there represent, from right to left, the Hebrew characters of Samekh, Bet, Bet, He, but I think it’s supposed to be Het.
At any rate, the characters together render the word and idea of sababa, which according to Amy and other sources is more than just a word, but rather a way of life. It’s also been described as cool, chill, going well, on the right path and other positive states. It’s a deep concept, and I like it a lot. In my mind, I thought of it as a very zen state, which led me to the thought of a buddha (not necessarily the Buddha) potentially being (in a state of) sababa. So, referencing Amy’s notes on sababa, I found and placed the Hebrew characters in Inkscape. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it happened without any changes to the configuration. I found a great buddha image in morguefile which I cropped, brought into Inkscape, bitmap traced a few times, and underpainted with the watercolor effect using the calligraphy tool.
Thanks to Amy for the inspiration, and the lesson! Above all, I recognize that I’m doing a religious cultural mashup here, and in that, it might be taken as offensive. There is absolutely no intent to do that, but rather to possibly have some cross understanding of a common state of being in many religious viewpoints.
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.
Mick Jagger’s top 12 Hebrew phrases
