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\"Whale<\/a>

Whale in the deep sea<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve been drawn to recreating some of these silhouette images in Inkscape, and a deep sea scenario works very well for it. The colors and darkness add drama and depth, and the silhouette of what we imagine to be this massive animal is at once awe-inspiring and frightening. In Inkscape, I used a dingbat font to get the silhouette of the whale, then worked with the calligraphy tool to create blurry ridges of massive rock formations. I also used the calligraphy tool to create an overhead light. Hope you like it!<\/p>\n

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I’ve been drawn to recreating some of these silhouette images in Inkscape, and a deep sea scenario works very well for it. The colors and darkness add drama and depth, and the silhouette of what we imagine to be this massive animal is at once awe-inspiring and frightening. In Inkscape, I used a dingbat font […]<\/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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3654],"tags":[76,1411,365,411,865,2825],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-portfolio","tag-arts","tag-calligraphy","tag-graphics","tag-inkscape","tag-vector-based","tag-visual-arts","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-aI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5787,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/10\/30\/307-of-365-is-a-whale-made-out-of-text-inkscape-design-typography\/","url_meta":{"origin":664,"position":0},"title":"A whale made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #design #typography","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-10-30","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a redo of an earlier sketch that just focused on the silhouette of a whale, and this time I used the word whale as a basis for the image. deep, sea, whale, blowhole. text, type, typography, design, 365, open source, creative commons, ocean, Inkscape","rel":"","context":"In "portfolio"","block_context":{"text":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/category\/portfolio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"A whale made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #design #typography","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101029whale.png?fit=809%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101029whale.png?fit=809%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101029whale.png?fit=809%2C500&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101029whale.png?fit=809%2C500&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5718,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/08\/21\/243-of-365-is-an-octopus-illustration-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":664,"position":1},"title":"243 of 365 is an octopus [illustration] #Inkscape","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-08-21","format":false,"excerpt":"In order to make this image, I started with a public domain silhouette of an octopus. 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