Friday 6 November 2015

True to the craft

This started as an exercise on how to vectorise and simplify shapes with an image of a hand. I had a few revelations in the process. The watercoloureffect of the hand was not what i was aiming for, but it looks good to me anyway.
Most of it was done in Gimp and then traced in Inkscape.
Also i added the banner, concentric circles and sunrays in Inkscape.
The grungeeffects were made in Gimp. 
The texture on the green background is an image of marble. 
The distress was made with a layermask.


Sunday 1 November 2015

Bleed


I found an amazing blog with tons of scans of old matchboxes, and each of it screamed Inkscape at me.



Friday 25 September 2015

Do you like Texture ? Part:2 [distress your lines !]

Another way of getting grungy lines is using the Distort Selection script.
Unfortunately this script has no preview, so using it is not very intuitive.


Therefor i will show you in todays tutorial how different values applied to the selection look like.

Thursday 20 August 2015

Do you like Texture ? Part:1 [grunge your text !]

Here is a little routine i came up with for making black and white, dirty, grungy looking text.
It works best with thin, sans serif fonts that look handwritten.

You will need David Tschumperlé's G'MIC filter.



Saturday 20 June 2015

Archie

Tried to put everything i learned in the past weeks into one image. 

Saturday 13 June 2015

Wednesday 20 May 2015

Vector Sunburst

In this tutorial i will show you how to create a sunburst in Inkscape version 0.92.

This effect also goes by the name of sunrays, radial rays or rising sun.


Saturday 14 March 2015

G'MIC - Engraved

Great new filter in G'MIC !

Apart from Engraved, i also used Couleurs metalliques for the background, Sepia for the colour toning and Ellipsionism for the texture on the face.

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Sunday 8 March 2015