{"id":261,"date":"2010-02-17T11:25:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.wordpress.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T20:31:55","slug":"58-of-365-is-a-jungle-of-vines-and-leaves-in-inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/02\/17\/58-of-365-is-a-jungle-of-vines-and-leaves-in-inkscape\/","title":{"rendered":"58 of 365 is a jungle of vines and leaves in #Inkscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jungle of vines and leaves by John LeMasney via lemasney.com<\/p><\/div>\n

So here, I wanted to play some more with text and the pencil tool. I started by typing in the word Jungle, converting it to path, and sizing it up to be readable at 500px.\u00a0 Then I took the pencil tool, set as usual to shape: triangle in with spiro splines and 50% smoothing, and added vine-like shapes to the ends of each of the butts of the letterforms, to extend them. I performed a union on all of the letterforms and vine shapes, so that they all became one path, and cleaned up the joints between the letter ends and the vine beginnings. After I was satisfied with the shape, I set the color, duplicated it, and outset it twice, sending the outset path back and giving it a brighter green. I did this once again, making that outset path light yellow, with a slight blur for a glow effect.<\/p>\n

Satisfied with the forms, I decided to create a leaf motif in the corner, which is simply an ellipse converted to path and shaped gently into a leaf form with the node tool. I added a vein to the leaf with the pencil tool using the same settings as above. I grouped those two paths into a single leaf and stem, then duplicated the leaf several more times. I created another full opacity leaf for the foreground, and many others in the background, altering the size and rotation to create a pile of leaves. I set the opacity of the background leaves to 40% or so, to let them fade into the background.<\/p>\n

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