{"id":5662,"date":"2010-05-29T13:11:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T17:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/?p=696"},"modified":"2020-07-11T18:05:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T22:05:34","slug":"159-of-365-is-a-zen-charm-in-inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/05\/29\/159-of-365-is-a-zen-charm-in-inkscape\/","title":{"rendered":"159 of 365 is a zen charm in #inkscape"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lotus<\/a>

Lotus charm<\/p><\/div>\n

I saw a charm just like this one on Etsy and thought it would make a good illustration for the bright metal bevel filter. In Inkscape, I created the circle using the ellipse tool, then created the other shapes with the Bezier tool, flipping rotating and duplicating the lotus leaves as I went. I used the union function to make them all a single object, then applied the filters\/bevels\/bright metal. Hope you like it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw a charm just like this one on Etsy and thought it would make a good illustration for the bright metal bevel filter. In Inkscape, I created the circle using the ellipse tool, then created the other shapes with the Bezier tool, flipping rotating and duplicating the lotus leaves as I went. I used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3654],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portfolio","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-1tk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1331,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/06\/27\/188-of-365-is-about-appearances-in-inkscape-angels\/","url_meta":{"origin":5662,"position":0},"title":"188 of 365 is about appearances in #Inkscape #angels","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-06-27","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently got a request from repeat requester and friend Shannon who asked about a sketch thusly: Challenge:Punked out angel wings, with the caption \"I only LOOK like an angel\" Inspiration: A white, fluffy fru-fru dog who's well-deserved nickname is Punk (owned by a good and mutual friend of ours\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "portfolio"","block_context":{"text":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/category\/portfolio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Looks like an angel","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20100627likeanangel.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20100627likeanangel.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/20100627likeanangel.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5884,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2011\/02\/08\/39-of-365-is-a-life-swallowed-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":5662,"position":1},"title":"39 of 365 is a life, swallowed #Inkscape","author":"lemsy","date":"2011-02-08","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 I recently decided to jump-start submissions for requests on 365 by asking for random captions and titles for pieces. 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