{"id":264,"date":"2010-02-18T10:50:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T15:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.wordpress.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2020-07-11T19:02:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T23:02:38","slug":"59-of-365-is-a-wild-jumping-sailfish-in-inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/02\/18\/59-of-365-is-a-wild-jumping-sailfish-in-inkscape\/","title":{"rendered":"A wild jumping sailfish by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #inkscape #cc #drawing #design"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A wild jumping sailfish by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #inkscape #cc #drawing #design<\/p><\/div>\n

So, the origin of this was another 365 Request from my very good (and highly missed) friend Rob. He suggested:<\/p>\n

“Sailfish jumping out of the water with the sun setting would be neat to see. Esp…ecially how you masterfully craft amazing images. Two to help get started, pictures: live: probably my favorite http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/sailfishJump<\/a> “<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And so, I looked at the images, did some research of my own on Sailfish, and found some very interesting clinical creative commons<\/a> licensed images. The one I settled on was at in which the sailfish is depicted in a removed, scientific style — the actual image (attributed to fishbase.com) is at and was a good place to start for the manipulation I had in mind.<\/p>\n

So, I took the image and did a bitmap trace, which worked beautifully, and then I applied a “bend” live path effect to simulate the arc in the body that I saw in Rob’s picture and others. In order to give the fish body and depth, I used the watercolor technique of wide strokes of washy, transparent color with the calligraphy tool underneath the bitmap trace. I used a gradient to create the sea and sky, and then created some wild splashing with the same watercolor technique described above.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Rob for the inspiration, and thanks to you for stopping by.<\/p>\n

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