Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Mountain Gorge

The water is still cold in the streams fed with snow-melt, like the one pictured below. The snow is just now diminishing above tree-line in the part of the West where this photo was taken.


Inkscape was used to highlight aspects of tracings of the photo.

mountain gorge

The detailed shot above flows through the gorge pictured in the digital painting below (modeled on one of my photos).


gorge painting

The following inset shows the relative scale of the detail -- this mountain gorge is huge.


gorge-inset

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Pouring a gradient from a can

I enjoy Inkscape's ability to blend colors. It's almost like having gradients in a paint can.

pouring gradients from a paint can

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Arrow made of Bent Metal

This shape was constructed using the perspective effect in Inksacpe 0.46 as well as the following tip posted previously on jbrgfx:


Arrow made of Bent Metal

Monday, June 15, 2009

Animated Spiro

Animation Trick

changing star shape

Each frame of the animation is achieved by changing the base radius and / or the tip radius of the star shape and exporting the image as a PNG. Then the frames are converted into an animated GIF using Imagemagick.