Have you ever tried to make something bad on purpose? I grew up in the 70s, and I tried to think of the kind of thing you might see on someone’s shirt 35 years ago, and this is what I came up with. I hope your retro bone digs it.
tags: retro, 70s, seventies, 1973, bmx, motocross, inkscape, design, fail, fun, funny, open source, sharism, creative commons, 365
This is part two of a diptych telling a fight story. Here we have a fighter in pieces, ready to fall apart. In Inkscape I made this by creating the silhouette of the fighter, then using the bezier tool to create a shard that I duplicated and flipped on the fighter from top to bottom. I used these shards to do a path operation that cut the fighter into those shapes, which I then moved this way and that with the selector tool to make a shattered and sliced appearance.
tags: kung-fu, karate, stance, chattered, sliced, fighting, practice, calm, tae kwon do, design, Inkscape, illustration, open source, open, 365, sharism, creative commons
This is part one of a diptych telling a fight story. Here we have a fighter in a firm stance, ready to defend himself. In Inkscape I made this by creating the silhouette of the fighter, then using the spraypaint tool to recreate the silhouette using exclamation points. Tomorrow, we’ll see what happened to the other guy.
tags: kung-fu, karate, stance, firm, fighting, practice, calm, tae kwon do, design, Inkscape, illustration, open source, open, 365, 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