{"id":55,"date":"2010-01-01T01:01:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T01:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.wordpress.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:36:37","slug":"number-11-is-a-retro-styled-funky-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/01\/01\/number-11-is-a-retro-styled-funky-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Number 11 is a retro-styled funky monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_56\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20100101.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56\" data-attachment-id=\"56\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/01\/01\/number-11-is-a-retro-styled-funky-monkey\/attachment\/20100101\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20100101.png?fit=497%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"497,500\" 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=\"Funky Monkey by John LeMasney via lemasney.com\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Funky Monkey by John LeMasney via lemasney.com&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Funky Monkey by John LeMasney via lemasney.com&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20100101.png?fit=497%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56\" alt=\"Funky Monkey by John LeMasney via lemasney.com\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20100101.png?resize=497%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"497\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Funky Monkey by John LeMasney via lemasney.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So, for the new year, I decided to break a resolution. I had intended to follow a strict theme of faces on this joint, but as you can see here, I feel that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Inkscape\" href=\"https:\/\/inkscape.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\">Inkscape<\/a> offers a lot of things that are expressed better as other things besides faces. I think this might make a nice t-shirt or something, for example. So for technique, I converted the word funky! to a path and played with it to make it, well, funky. Then, I added 3 dynamic offsets and colored them with warm colors. Then, I took the word monkey, converted it to a path, applied a bend live path effect, applied a sketch live path effect, and then duplicated it, converted the duplicate to a path, filled in the centers of each letter with <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Color\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Color\" rel=\"wikipedia\">color<\/a>, then added a dynamic offset to that. I added the black background and clean text at the top. 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I had intended to follow a strict theme of faces on this joint, but as you can see here, I feel that Inkscape offers a lot of things that are expressed better as other things besides faces. 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