365 sketches

By: lemasney

Mar 18 2010

Tags: identi.ca, Inkscape, Languages, Open source, Programming, StatusNet, Technology, Twitter

Category: 365, Bezier Tool, Calligraphy Tool, duplicate, Ellipse Tool, eyedropper tool, faces, flip, Gradient tool, Rectangle Tool, requests, Text Tool, Trace Bitmap

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Hey all. This is a 365 request from my very good friend Janie. She sent me a funny and exciting picture of someone very dear to her going down a slide, and I decided to take it somewhere different in Inkscape. I was especially inspired for this image by the one below, one that I use to discuss sometimes non-ambiguous emotion in design.

Girl with Parakeet

I’m a big supporter of Twitter, but mostly because of its kajillion millions of users. Open source based tweet-ternatives, like identi.ca exist, and are great, but they just don’t have the same user base. I drew the picture in this way to be funny, I don’t actually believe it’s in Twitter’s best interest or actions to attack identi.ca, but I could see a rivalry emerging at some point. As a matter of fact, I think I set Friendfeed to autopost anything I put there out to identi.ca too, but I’m not there enough to know if that’s the case. If anyone wants to have an in-house self-hosted Twitter, know that you can use the open source technology that identi.ca is based on, called statusnet available at http://status.net .

So, In Inkscape, I took both Janie’s picture and an image of the Twitterbird, as well as an image of a hand, and did bitmap traces on all three, as well as duping and flipping the hand. Then, I used the calligraphy tool to paint out the Twitterbird and the boy’s face and hair. I placed the hands and built arms and a shirt and neck with the rectangle and calligrpahy tools. I added identi.ca with the text tool. For increased terror, I made the eyes large and wide, and duped and lowered opacity on copies of the arms.

Thanks very much to Janie and Mr. 6 (pictured below with permission). They both rock it.

Mr. 6

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