Just Milk: Inkscape Exercise
A buddy of mine works at the Serbian chapter of McCann Erickson. I’ve heard they were doing a campaign for a local milk company. I decided my next exercise would be something similar.
Tengu (天狗) is a mythical supernatural being found in Japanese culture, both traditional and modern, popular. This illustration is part of nihonmi.com collection of articles on Japan and Japanese culture, and it’s feature in an article on Tengu. The artwork was produced in Inkscape.
Complete Guide to Inkscape Perspective
The Inkscape’s perspective extension, (especially used together with the 3D box tool) provides a powerful way to quickly construct 2.5D graphics. By the way, 2.5D graphics is a technical terms for 2D graphics projected into 3D-ish perspective. We are not creating real 3D graphics, which is what Blender and similar packages are for.
The perspective extension is still a work in progress, and while it does work well most of the time, it can sometimes give you headaches. I will try to give an in-depth guide for its usage, and help you deal with some of the issues.
Yukionna (雪女) is a ghost-like entity in the form of a beautiful woman. Her skin is white, cold to touch, and eyes like black vaccum. She was said to lure weak-willed men with promise of carnal enjoyment, and drain them of their livelihood in the cold of winter blizzards.
This illustration is featured on nihonmi.com as part of the article on Yukionna. It was done using Inkscape 0.47.
Zlatibor Infographics
Some of you might have caught it, but I was on vacation for past 2 weeks, and spent some time on Zlatibor. The thing I was most impressed with is the clean mountain air. So, after 2 weeks, I’ve almost forgotten how to operate the mouse and pen, as well as type on keyboards. I thought I’d introduce you to Zlatibor, and also get back into shape doing my thing.
