{"id":6160,"date":"2012-11-28T09:58:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:36:39","slug":"20121128-a-heart-cut-out-of-paper-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-cc-design-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/11\/28\/20121128-a-heart-cut-out-of-paper-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-cc-design-love\/","title":{"rendered":"20121128: A heart cut out of paper by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4963\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/11\/28\/20121128-a-heart-cut-out-of-paper-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-cc-design-love\/attachment\/20121128\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4963\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4963\" class=\" wp-image-4963 \" title=\"20121128: A heart cut out of paper by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org\" alt=\"20121128: A heart cut out of paper by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121128.png?w=600&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">20121128: A heart cut out of paper by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So, for keeping designer&#8217;s block low\u00a0in this project, I have devised a few techniques to stay creative. The one with the most potential so far, in my opinion, is one in which I use a favorite collection, usually a book, of phrases, quotes, concepts, songs or motifs as a starting point, open to one or more random pages, and illustrate the idea that results from these random choices. In this particular case, I was using the concepts &#8220;shadow play&#8221; and &#8220;cut paper&#8221; from the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003M6A2FW\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B003M6A2FW&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=lemasney-20\">Universal Principles of Design<\/a>, a wonderful collection of key ideas and innovations in design. I placed a rectangle on the page, and drew a heart on top of it with the pencil tool. I selected both and used the path difference operation. I duplicated the path, moved it a bit, made it gray, and applied transparency and blur to give a shadow. I tweaked the color with the gradient tool and called it done.<\/p>\n<p>tags: heart, cut paper, paper, cut, shadow, shadow play, sketch, open source, Inkscape<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size:1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/11\/26\/20121126-lucky-bamboo-sketch-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-cc-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121126: Lucky Bamboo sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/11\/20\/20121120-a-study-in-hexagonal-geometry-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-design-cc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121120: A study in hexagonal geometry by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #design #cc<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/11\/23\/20121123-easel-computing-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-cc-design-tablets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121123: Easel computing by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #tablets<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, for keeping designer&#8217;s block low\u00a0in this project, I have devised a few techniques to stay creative. The one with the most potential so far, in my opinion, is one in which I use a favorite collection, usually a book, of phrases, quotes, concepts, songs or motifs as a starting point, open to one or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5607,"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":[1128,3654],"tags":[76,335,346,403,411,3870,679,923],"class_list":{"0":"post-6160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-illustration","8":"category-portfolio","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-gimp","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-illustration","13":"tag-inkscape","14":"tag-john-lemasney","15":"tag-public-libraries","16":"tag-wordpress","17":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121128.png?fit=1200%2C700&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-1Bm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5952,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2011\/04\/17\/116-of-365-is-an-erased-face-gimp\/","url_meta":{"origin":6160,"position":0},"title":"An erased face by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #illustration #GIMP","author":"lemsy","date":"2011-04-17","format":false,"excerpt":"So this is an image of a girl I found at Morguefile, and I used the clone and smudge tools to erase her face. 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