{"id":413,"date":"2010-03-27T10:48:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T15:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/?p=413"},"modified":"2020-07-11T15:09:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T19:09:42","slug":"96-of-365-is-a-wretched-prince-of-darkness-in-inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/03\/27\/96-of-365-is-a-wretched-prince-of-darkness-in-inkscape\/","title":{"rendered":"96 of 365 is a wretched prince of darkness in #Inkscape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prince of Darkness – LeMasney Consulting<\/p><\/div>\n

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Okay, so before you unsubscribe from my RSS feed citing blasphemy, know that I’m no devil worshiper. I promise you, I’m not here to offend anyone. As a design focus, you have to admit, this literary figure has an interesting illustrated past. I originally envisioned this sketch as a simple icon, a road sign that read devil crossin<\/em>g, with a simple silhouette of a human top and a goat bottom, but as I gathered the pieces for the figure, I realized that the detailed lines would come together very nicely as a more realistic illustration. To that end, I got some great free images from MorgueFile<\/a> and Flickr’s The Commons, so that I’d not need to worry even about attribution. I got a picture of a goat’s head for the horns, a public domain portrait of a bare chested fighter, and a picture of a deer for its hind quarters, and brought them all into Inkscape<\/a> and bitmap traced them. I had to do some flipping, node removal and resizing to get all of the elements right in relationship to each other, and after that I connected the disparate lines with the calligraphy tool. I had to rebuild the hooves on the deer, connect the hind quarters to the man’s chest, and place the horns, hat-like, upon his head. Finally, using the pencil tool set to 50% smoothing, Spiro, and shape: triangle in, I made 5 tails, and capped each tail with a point. All said and done, I wouldn’t want to meet up with this guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Okay, so before you unsubscribe from my RSS feed citing blasphemy, know that I’m no devil worshiper. I promise you, I’m not here to offend anyone. As a design focus, you have to admit, this literary figure has an interesting illustrated past. 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