{"id":199,"date":"2010-02-02T21:39:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T02:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.wordpress.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:38:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:38:46","slug":"43-of-365-is-jay-z-on-to-the-next-one-inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/02\/02\/43-of-365-is-jay-z-on-to-the-next-one-inkscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z, on to the next one by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5053\" style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20100202.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5053\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/02\/02\/43-of-365-is-jay-z-on-to-the-next-one-inkscape\/attachment\/20100202\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20100202.png?fit=495%2C495&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"495,495\" 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=\"Jay-Z, on to the next one by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Jay-Z, on to the next one by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Jay-Z, on to the next one by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20100202.png?fit=495%2C495&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5053\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20100202.png?resize=495%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Jay-Z, on to the next one by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration\" width=\"495\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay-Z, on to the next one by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I decided that enough people are telling me that they are digging the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Gradient\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gradient\" rel=\"wikipedia\">gradient<\/a> based <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bitmap\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bitmap\" rel=\"wikipedia\">bitmap<\/a> to vector translations that I want to work more often on them. Plus, my most popular posts so far (by far) are those of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Celebrity\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Celebrity\" rel=\"wikipedia\">famous people<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Icon\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Icon\" rel=\"wikipedia\">icons<\/a>, or objects. In this sketch, I used <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Inkscape\" href=\"https:\/\/inkscape.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\">Inkscape<\/a> to take an <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Image\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image\" rel=\"wikipedia\">image<\/a> of Jay Z and convert it to vector, apply gradients to it, and to a rectangle based background. I then took three rectangles, converted to paths, and brought the opacity down. I&#8217;ve seen this kind of triple overlay imagery in several images related to his new album, <em>The Blueprint 3<\/em>, which I&#8217;m enjoying quite a bit. I especially like <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/popup.lala.com\/popup\/360569475233972156&amp;ei=MuBoS435KIeVtgeY38DbBg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=music_play_track&amp;resnum=2&amp;ct=result&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CBIQ0wQoATAA&amp;usg=AFQjCNHxQhIemQjrJtL4396yWyabqS4vdg\" target=\"music_popup\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On To The Next One (feat. Swizz Beatz)<\/a><\/em>. I decided to twist the rectangles in space using the node tool to add some depth. If you&#8217;re interested in Jay Z and his latest album, you might be interested in seeing another direction it could have gone with the help of a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Record producer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Record_producer\" rel=\"wikipedia\">producer<\/a> named Alex Goose who developed .<\/p>\n<p>[youtube <\/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=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/1629666\/swizz-beatz-bringing-new-worldly-sounds-to-jay-zs-next-album\/\">Swizz Beatz Bringing New &#8216;Worldly&#8217; Sounds To Jay-Z&#8217;s Next Album<\/a> (mtv.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Jay-Z Turns &#8220;On To the Next One&#8221; Clip Into High-Concept Video Art (rollingstone.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alistapart.com\/article\/using-svg-for-flexible-scalable-and-fun-backgrounds-part-ii\/\">Using SVG for Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part II<\/a> (alistapart.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided that enough people are telling me that they are digging the gradient based bitmap to vector translations that I want to work more often on them. Plus, my most popular posts so far (by far) are those of famous people, icons, or objects. In this sketch, I used Inkscape to take an image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3654],"tags":[335,346,365,404,411,3870,923],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portfolio","tag-gimp","tag-google","tag-graphics","tag-image","tag-inkscape","tag-john-lemasney","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-3d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5798,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/11\/09\/318-of-365-is-on-balance-inkscape-illustration\/","url_meta":{"origin":199,"position":0},"title":"On balance, or, an acrobat balancing on a tall, thin stick by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #illustration #cc #design","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-11-09","format":false,"excerpt":"I've watched this great documentary called Circus on the Big Apple Circus on PBS. 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