173 of 365 is a cloud with silver lining in #inkscape #illustration
By: lemasney
Tags: Arts, Calligraphy, Ellipse, Graphics, ideas, Inkscape, Node Tool, Vector Based
Category: 365, blur, duplicate, Ellipse Tool, flip, Gradient tool, ideas, Node Tool, object to path, rotate, Spraypaint, Text Tool
So this is another case where I saw a photo and thought about how I could recreate it in Inkscape. In Inkscape, I created a blue sky rectangle, then using the ellipse tool, I created a small circle in white. Using the circle with the spraypaint tool in single path mode, I created a random line of overlapped circles across the page, then used the node tool to take the bottom halves of the circles away. I extended the ends of the path to the bottom of the page. I duplicated the cloud shape and made it gray, and again in near black. I applied some blur to each of the cloud shapes and gradients where appropriate. Finally, using a bird dingbat font (Birds of a Feather, http://www.dingbatdepot.com/details/BirdsOfAFeather), I created the soaring eagle you see there to add context and reference to size. Hope you liked it!
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John LeMasney
John LeMasney is a father who lives and works in and around Ewing, NJ. He has worked for 11 years at Rider University as the Manager of Technology Training. He was recently awarded a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership with honors from Rider University. He is a designer, artist, writer, poet, technologist, consultant, open web advocate and open source evangelist. He is most interested in helping people to use technology to make their lives, work, and world better.
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You GO, John!! I recently took your open source free classes at Rider and thought you were such a skilled and helpful instructor. Now I see you are an even more AWESOME creative artist. Can’t wait to collaborate with YOU in the near future!
Sandy
Wow, Sandy! What a thoughtful and beautiful note. I’m glad you found my project, and I’m even happier that we might work together sometime. Best to you, and here’s to collaboration!
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 @ 2:29 PM (EST)
John,
Great to see you again last night. It was also nice to meet your family, friends and other Open Source “disciples”. I’ll be in touch!
Sandy
I’m looking forward to it, Sandy, and thanks!