Sunday, May 30, 2010
The camera was again built using Inkscape. It is a collection of paths, gradients and transparencies. This project also used the "Setting text to follow a path" feature. That allowed the creation of the text on an arc. The text around the camera lense is a result.
There was some experimentation on that feature as the path the text is following must remain intact in the final composition. The path was made invisible by setting the fill and stroke color to nothing. Perhaps there is a more efficient method to achieve this curved text effect, it is simply unknown at this point.
My next project will be to use the 3D box constructs that are available in Inkscape. These allow the use of vanishing points and perspective to simulate a 3D space. There is a nice tutorial on the web ((Here)) and it will be interesting to try it.
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Add Comment?Thursday, May 20, 2010
This guitar will be used as a graphic on my Music pages. It took several hours to construct. This was primarily due to the strings and frets. There is a need to learn the scripting language for Inkscape. Regular spacing of objects would be an ideal candidate for scripting.
This project was fun and it stretched my skills with Inkscape just a little more. Will put this image on a background in a future revision.
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Add Comment?Monday, May 17, 2010
This is an homage to a wonderful friend of mine. Hopefully she will like the caricature. The essence of her look was captured. Inkscape lends itself to this type of illustration. The use of outlining, shading and shadowing is relatively easy with Inkscape.
One of the tricks learned while making this image was Inkscape's cloning feature. By making a clone of the first earring, color can be changed on one and the other is updated.
Also Inkscape lends itself to the use of repeated shapes. The spikey hair used that technique.
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Add Comment?Saturday, May 15, 2010
A simple Panda graphic using Inkscape, created with many circles and elongated rectangles with radiused corners. This was just for fun and practice with Inkscape. The eyepatches are actually a single circle that has been path cut many times.
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Add Comment?Thursday, May 6, 2010
Inkscape - Pallette created using ellipses and path cutting. One brush was created using the pen tool. It was then copied, scaled and rotated. All separate images were given a drop shadow by using group, copy, blur and transparency.
This effort was fairly fast, maybe 45 minutes for the graphic work. Majority of the time was spent finalizing the size and position for the web page display.
The pallette image was used as an overlay on the standard Essjam graphic to create the page avatar. Inkscape Vector graphics allow tremendous resizing without loss of fidelity.
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Add Comment?Saturday, May 1, 2010
Inkscape - Pen was created with a series of rectangles and path clipping. Added the flare to the pen clasp recently. This is the graphic used for the comments page. The ink bottle was also created with rectangles and ellipses.
This image is shown because not many would see it due to the lack of comments. Hint, Hint. Once again this graphic was easy to construct, approximately 15 minutes for the ink bottle and 25 minutes for the pen.
Again drop-shadows were used to create a sense of depth. Drop shadows are very easy in Inkscape. Group the object, ctrl-d to copy, change color to black, blur at 5 to 7% and then set transparency at 50 to 70%. Offset the copy and move the z-order below the original image. This will produce a nice drop shadow effect in just a few seconds.
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