{"id":471,"date":"2010-04-08T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/?p=471"},"modified":"2020-07-11T15:10:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T19:10:01","slug":"108-of-365-is-a-web-monkey-in-inkscape-tedxnjlibs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/04\/08\/108-of-365-is-a-web-monkey-in-inkscape-tedxnjlibs\/","title":{"rendered":"Webmonkey – LeMasney Consulting"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Webmonkey<\/a>

Webmonkey – LeMasney Consulting<\/p><\/div>\n

Ask any of my esteemed colleagues on the TEDxNJLibraries team what my role is and, as likely as not, they’ll say that I’m the TEDxNJLibs WebMonkey. I do most of the updates on our site at and have been one of the champions for the solution and methods for our site. I’m proud of the work, and proud of the title, very much a term of endearment.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, I wanted to do a painting in Inkscape<\/a> to have a realistic rendering with harsh lines of a monkey. In the background you can see some code from our site, which is WordPress<\/a> based. I guess if I was being true to that I’d have copied in the PHP<\/a> rather than the rendered XHTML<\/a>, but you get the picture. I started with a few photos of monkeys and used them as a base for building the face with the calligraphy tool, working with the eyedropper tool and using the original photo as a palette, but after I had the basic structure, I decided to remove the photo and build up the image from my mind. I especially love the way the sparkle and color come through in the eyes. It reminds me of the way I light up inside when I get a chance to add new content to the site. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ask any of my esteemed colleagues on the TEDxNJLibraries team what my role is and, as likely as not, they’ll say that I’m the TEDxNJLibs WebMonkey. I do most of the updates on our site at and have been one of the champions for the solution and methods for our site. 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