This is just a quick sketch in Inkscape of some clip art girl. With a tablet, and the Calligraphy tool, this kind of work is quick and rewarding.
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19 of 365 is a sketch of some girl.
Tag: Scalable Vector Graphics
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A psuedo-tessellation tribal mask
So this one is about learning how to use new tools in Inkscape. A Live Path Effect in Inkscape called Von Koch allows you to use a path as a basis for manipulating duplicates in relation to the original. This is a single shape (the central bird) which was shaped essentially to allow for an interlocking effect with its duplicates. A hard tool to explain, but a fun tool to explore. After I was happy, I filled the shapes with color, added a simple face and hair, and then placed a background.
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So, for the new year, I decided to break a resolution. I had intended to follow a strict theme of faces on this joint, but as you can see here, I feel that Inkscape offers a lot of things that are expressed better as other things besides faces. I think this might make a nice t-shirt or something, for example. So for technique, I converted the word funky! to a path and played with it to make it, well, funky. Then, I added 3 dynamic offsets and colored them with warm colors. Then, I took the word monkey, converted it to a path, applied a bend live path effect, applied a sketch live path effect, and then duplicated it, converted the duplicate to a path, filled in the centers of each letter with color, then added a dynamic offset to that. I added the black background and clean text at the top. Happy New year you funky monkeys!
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Long handmade funky jewellery necklace with a moon shaped pendant
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This one was a revelation for me. Perhaps not the best application of this tool, but it was a lot of fun to play with. I just started reading about Inkscape‘s Stitch Sub Paths Live Path Effect in Kirsanov’s The Book of Inkscape and found that it was great for lining long planes with manipulable parallel paths.
In my painting classes, I learned that it’s important to sculpt your subject with your brush to help your viewer see the way that a plane is going through space. This is a simplified way of doing just that. Very fun too.
I hope you can excuse the primitivism of this experiment, but I plan to develop my skills with it in the new year. Speaking of which, I hope you all have a great 2010.
I used path as pattern path effect tool to make a stenciled face. In this case, I started with a photo of a girl’s face, did a trace bitmap operation, made text lines in three different sizes, then converted the lines of Inkscape‘s text into paths, and used them to paint the dark areas of the face, while leaving the lighter areas a pure white. Inkscape is an amazingly versatile tool, and this is just one more example.
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What is this all about?
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365 Sketches is a response to a post I read tonight that suggests that I design something every day ( http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/22/design-something-every-day/ ). As an Inkscape enthusiast, I wanted specifically to share ways in which I feel that Inkscape excels as a design application. I was inspired by the post to post a sketch every day from Inkscape, something quick, minimal, and demonstrative of Inkscape’s abilities. As a theme, I’m starting with faces, but I don’t feel like I’m limiting myself just to faces. If I feel like straying from the theme, I will. I also intend to maybe post more than one post if I feel like it, or let the post skip a day if necessary. All in all though, I’m going to try to end up at the end of 2010 with at least 365 sketches.
Here’s to Inkscape!