{"id":420,"date":"2010-03-29T11:13:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T15:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/?p=420"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T20:28:22","slug":"98-of-365-is-a-squid-with-a-hundred-eyes-in-inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/03\/29\/98-of-365-is-a-squid-with-a-hundred-eyes-in-inkscape\/","title":{"rendered":"A monstrous squid with a hundred eyes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration #inkscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_421\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20100329.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-421\" data-attachment-id=\"421\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/03\/29\/98-of-365-is-a-squid-with-a-hundred-eyes-in-inkscape\/attachment\/20100329\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100329.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=\"A monstrous squid with a hundred eyes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration #inkscape\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;A monstrous squid with a hundred eyes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration #inkscape&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A monstrous squid with a hundred eyes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration #inkscape&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100329.png?fit=495%2C495&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-421\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20100329.png?resize=495%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A monstrous squid with a hundred eyes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration #inkscape\" width=\"495\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A monstrous squid with a hundred eyes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #illustration #inkscape<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So today&#8217;s sketch is of a squid, which, not being a marine biologist, I think of as simply a sea cre\u00e4ture with 8 <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tentacle\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tentacle\" rel=\"wikipedia\">tentacles<\/a>. And black, black eyes. Lots of eyes. So that&#8217;s what I drew here for you. A gracefully swimming black-eyed squid.<\/p>\n<p>In <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Inkscape\" href=\"https:\/\/inkscape.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\">Inkscape<\/a>, I started with an ellipse, which I shaped into a thin US Mailbox type shape, then I used the pencil tool set to Spiro and shape: triangle in to create the tentacles. As a final touch I created a single black eye with a small highlight and then used 0.48&#8217;s brand new spraypaint tool which allowed me to quickly fill the space of the head with many clones of the original eye. 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And black, black eyes. Lots of eyes. So that&#8217;s what I drew here for you. A gracefully swimming black-eyed squid. 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