{"id":129,"date":"2010-01-18T14:42:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.wordpress.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2020-07-11T15:07:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T19:07:36","slug":"28-of-365-is-a-friendly-little-cyclops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/01\/18\/28-of-365-is-a-friendly-little-cyclops\/","title":{"rendered":"28 of 365 is a friendly little cyclops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_130\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20100118.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130\" data-attachment-id=\"130\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/20100118\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20100118.png?fit=495%2C494&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"495,494\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20100118\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;20100118&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Happy cyclops&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20100118.png?fit=495%2C494&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130\" title=\"20100118\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20100118.png?resize=495%2C494&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20100118\" width=\"495\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20100118.png?w=495&amp;ssl=1 495w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20100118.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy cyclops<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pushing my quota for absurdity in this series, I decided to use <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Inkscape\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"https:\/\/inkscape.org\/\">Inkscape<\/a> today in order to do some collage work. By taking three images from MorgueFile.com (a little girl looking over a wall, a made-up eye, and a mouth full of braces) and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Vectorization (computer graphics)\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vectorization_%28computer_graphics%29\">bitmap tracing<\/a> them, I was able to make this happy little cyclops. The most work was done to remove the nodes from the originals in order to make way for the layering of the new elements, such as taking out the original face of the little girl. I masked off part of the mouth with braces, to get rid of the hard edges from the original photo.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size:1em;\">Related articles by Zemanta<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oreilly.com\/library\/view\/the-book-of\/9781593271817\/\">The Book of Inkscape<\/a> (oreilly.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pushing my quota for absurdity in this series, I decided to use Inkscape today in order to do some collage work. By taking three images from MorgueFile.com (a little girl looking over a wall, a made-up eye, and a mouth full of braces) and bitmap tracing them, I was able to make this happy little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3654],"tags":[76,335,365,411,865,2825],"class_list":{"0":"post-129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portfolio","7":"tag-arts","8":"tag-gimp","9":"tag-graphics","10":"tag-inkscape","11":"tag-vector-based","12":"tag-visual-arts","13":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-25","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1331,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/06\/27\/188-of-365-is-about-appearances-in-inkscape-angels\/","url_meta":{"origin":129,"position":0},"title":"188 of 365 is about appearances in #Inkscape #angels","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-06-27","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently got a request from repeat requester and friend Shannon who asked about a sketch thusly: Challenge:Punked out angel wings, with the caption \"I only LOOK like an angel\" Inspiration: A white, fluffy fru-fru dog who's well-deserved nickname is Punk (owned by a good and mutual friend of ours\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;portfolio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/category\/portfolio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Looks like an angel","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20100627likeanangel.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20100627likeanangel.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20100627likeanangel.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5884,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2011\/02\/08\/39-of-365-is-a-life-swallowed-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":129,"position":1},"title":"39 of 365 is a life, swallowed #Inkscape","author":"lemsy","date":"2011-02-08","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 I recently decided to jump-start submissions for requests on 365 by asking for random captions and titles for pieces. 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