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Self-portrait as a Buddha cc-by lemasney

Friendly Self Portrait
Friendly Self Portrait
Self-portrait as a Buddha cc-by lemasney
Self-portrait as a Buddha cc-by lemasney

Self portrait as Buddha

So I’ve been playing with my Facebook Profile Pic, and I did it mostly with my $100 Wacom Tablet. I’m always surprised and amazed at how easily you can modify a photographic image in Inkscape in order to transcend photography in and of itself. It’s a lot of fun to bring in a picture, trace bitmap in Inkscape, and start to work into it with the calligraphy tool. Hope you enjoyed this example of that.

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A portrait of Sarah Badawy – LeMasney Consulting

A portrait of Sarah Badawy - LeMasney Consulting
A portrait of Sarah Badawy - LeMasney Consulting
A portrait of Sarah Badawy - LeMasney Consulting
A portrait of Sarah Badawy – LeMasney Consulting

Hey, all. This one was fun. Sarah, who is a long time worker for me, but also a supportive friend and confidant, was nice enough to share a picture for the 365 sketches project. I had a short conversation about what she was looking for, and she mentioned that she liked my self portrait with a scowl, because it had a Japanese emoticon styled face, which I really only subtly realized when I made it. She often uses reversed or japanese styled icons in her emails, and the way she writes and types really is one of the tiny but many fun and interesting aspects of her persona.

A portrait of Sarah Badawy - LeMasney Consulting
A portrait of Sarah Badawy – LeMasney Consulting

With this in mind, in Inkscape, I imported her donated image, bitmap traced it, and removed some background elements, all of her facial features, and a cup of bubble tea that she’s drinking in the original photo. I simplified the nodes, which numbered over 8,000, resulting in just over 1,000 nodes. Using the calligraphy brush set very thin, I added a line to create a shirt, and another to create a chin, neither of which emerged from the bitmap trace.  With a thicker brush size and less opacity, I added color for her hair, shirt, jacket, foreground and background. I added a star using the shape tool. Finally, I created her facial features with the text tool. Thanks for the image Sarah, I hope you like what I did with it!

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45 of 365 is a self portrait with a scowl #inkscape

Self portrait with scowl - LeMasney Consulting
Self portrait with scowl - LeMasney Consulting
Self portrait with scowl - LeMasney Consulting
Self portrait with scowl – LeMasney Consulting

 

I opened up PhotoBooth on my MBP, and took a quick close up shot of my face in a scowl. I brought it into Inkscape, converted the bitmap into a vector with both the edge detect and the threshold methods, then applied different colors to each and overlapped them. I added a background for the highlight, and finally added some plain black lines to emphasize my mouth and eyes, as they were getting a bit lost.

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22 of 365 is a self portrait in text

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John LeMasney

Here’s another text based portrait, and in this case a self portrait. For this technique, I start by placing a photo in Inkscape, and doing a bitmap trace. Then, I place a string of text, convert it to a path, copy it, and use the pencil tool with shape set to “from clipboard“. Then, I draw until the dark shapes from the bitmap trace are filled, at which point I remove the trace, leaving just the text. Underneath is simply a rectangle of contrasting color.

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