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20121125: A man with an elephant’s step by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design

20121125: A man with an elephant's step by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121125: A man with an elephant's step by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121125: A man with an elephant's step by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121125: A man with an elephant’s step by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design

I feel like a man with the step of an elephant

This is a metaphor for me. I often feel that I still have the weight that I’ve lost when I walk. I feel that my personality is heavy when I am light. I feel that my steps in conversation, exchange, and entry is sometimes clumsy and heavy-footed. I feel like I am often seen as a 2 ton graceless monster before someone knows me, and I work to make that extra shadow disappear for people as quickly as possible.

tags: animal, sketch, shadow, metaphor, man, me, self-portrait, elephant, transformation

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30 of 365 is a painterly self portrait in profile #GIMP

 

Self portrait in profile
Self portrait in profile

 

Obviously I’ve fallen in love with the painterly technique that Angel Bee suggested a while back. In this one, I tried to apply a sepia look and feel to this particular image, and painted into the image with various brushes.

tags: self-portrait, brushes, painterly, gimp, gnu, gpl, open source, creative commons, cc-sa, sharing, lemasney, 365, postaday2011, daily

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24 of 365 is a painterly self-portrait #GIMP

 

Painterly self-portrait
Painterly self-portrait

 

This self-portrait is a result of a great suggestion by my friend Angel who said:

“Pick any photo image you have (can be yourself) and make it look like an oil painting on canvas.”

Thanks for the suggestion, Angel! I used my webcam to capture images of myself from some interesting angles and lighting situations. Then, I used one as a base image in the GIMP to first color-pick then paint into with different brushes using a Wacom tablet. It was a lot of fun to ruin the perfect forms of photography and replace it with the warmth and approximation of painting. I’ve done this a few times before in different ways, but this was a very direct, very freeing method.

tags: Wacom, self-portrait, image, identity, painterly, 365, daily, postaday2011, GIMP, GNU, GPL, Open source, creative commons, CC-SA

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4 of 365 is a disjointed triptych self-portrait

Self portrait in triptych
Self portrait in triptych
Self portrait in triptych
Self portrait in triptych

I decided to use the GIMP to make a disjointed self-portrait. By starting with the base image on the far left, I duplicated the layer twice, then I resized the canvas to three times its original width. I moved the images into three equal positions on the canvas, then on the second and third portions, I began making rectangular selections with the marquee tool of the eyes and other features and copying and pasting as new layers, then rotating, lowering opacity, and otherwise playing with those layers.

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3 of 365 is a profile pic #GIMP

Profile pic
Profile pic

So, GIMP has this cool trick where you can animate a series of images as a GIF by placing images as layers then saving as GIF and choosing to save layers as animation in the resulting dialog. Simple, and with a little practice, probably successful design.

tags: GIMP, GNU, GPL, open source, creative commons, self-portrait, animation, motion, postaday2011

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22 of 365 is a self portrait in text

20100112
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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