Showing posts with label sailboat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sailboat. Show all posts

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Creating a shoreline in Inskcape using a photograph as a model

My incomplete project:


sailboat

The purpose of the demonstration:


To show how to use layers and sections of photographs as models for creating landscapes using Inkscape.

Tools used to create the landscape background:

  • Inkscape 0.46


The intended audience and required skills:


Intermediate Inkscape users: familiarity with Potrace, with editing linear gradients, with duplicating shapes, practiced at using gradients for shading and lighting effects, drawing Bezier paths, clipping shapes, and exporting selections to PNG.


How to begin making a landscape background using Inkscape 0.46.


shoreline

Helpful Resources:


The photograph from which this study is derived is by http://www.flickr.com/photos/chefranden/ and may be seen on Flickr.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Work Progressing

A more complete version of a sailboat.

sailboat

The picture is missing hills in the distance and the people on the boat are unfinished.

The photograph from which this study is derived is by http://www.flickr.com/photos/chefranden/ and may be seen on Flickr.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Work in Progress

Maybe for the next tutorial . . . ?

unfinished sailboat

The photograph from which this study is derived is by http://www.flickr.com/photos/chefranden/ and may be seen on Flickr.