Vector Halftone

The Ghost In The Machine

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.

Bleed

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

Luminous

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.

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.

Gold & Grunge

Atomic Pearls

Gimp succeeded where Inkscape failed :O

chiseled Sketch

Madness

Archie

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

Leftovers

Found this old texteffect on my harddisc. 

Its a cross between this and this tutorial.

XCF

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.

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.

Open in new tab for a larger version !

Posterized - the Stencil inspired Tutorial

This tutorial came a long way, because i didnt know how to present it.