This is just a simple quiet sketch of a girl skating. Even though she’s on rollerblades, the treatment is definitely intent on giving you the impression she’s on ice. Fun stuff.
tags: girl, skating, ice, rollerblades, exercise, fun, minimalist, illustration, Inkscape, open source, design, sharism, creative commons
So here’s a moon rising over the hills. I used a photo texture and the masking tool to create the moon’s texture, and for the stars, I used a single small circle and duplicated randomly with the spraypaint tool.
tags: moon, landscape, moonrise, stars, hills, design, Inkscape, open source, creative commons, free, sharism
Phil Shapiro, a long time supporter of this project, who contacts me regularly about Inkscape related stories and sites. He recently contacted me and suggested:
Here’s an inspirational quote I totally made up today. “Life is a rich tapestry of metaphors interwoven with another rich tapestry of other metaphors.” Can you give this a 365 Sketches treatment to place the text centered (landscape) with a weaving theme around all four borders? <giggle> phil
Thanks, Phil! I didn’t know exactly what to do with the weaving around the four borders, but I really love the way this font and color renders a rich interweaving tapestry. 🙂
tags: weaving, tapestry, metaphor, life, living, inter, design, font, type, typography, color, open source, creative commons, Inkscape
I really love Inkscape’s clip and mask tools in the object menu. It allows you to have clean crisp lines like those you find in a font come together with a wildly sketchy line from a wacom tablet and make a beautiful, interesting combination with very little effort.
tags: sketch, fonts, type, typography, five minutes, quick, Inkscape, design, drawing, art, creative commons, open source, sharism
I made this maple leaf using Inkscape and my Wacom tablet. The chills and strong winds of fall are really coming on now here in the Northeast US, and I wanted to capture some of the great sights I’ve seen lately.
tag: fall, autumn, windy, leaves, maple tree, Canada, Inkscape, New Jersey, drawing, skethcing, croquis, wacom, creative commons, sharism, open source
A very simple sketch using the spraypaint tool in Inkscape 0.48
tags: stars, space, american, stars and stripes, design, Inkscape, open source, creative commons, sharism