Month: January 2025

Return the Wolf WIP

Vector illustration of a European landscape with a river, forests, a village, a stone circle, sheep, a lake etc. There's a howling wolf in the centre of the picture and three lakes form kind of a nose and two eyes in the landscape.

Hello ^__^ here’s a detail of a piece I’m working on. Just like with another one I’m finishing atm, I’m struggling with colours a lot. This one is kind of an experiment with doing outlines on a vector illustration, not sure if I like it but it’s a new thing!

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtWithOpenSource #ArtistsOnMastodon #Inkscape #Vector #WIP #wolf #landscape #map #forest #nature #animals #environment #Scotland #PublicTransport #train

UtopiaStill @38C3

Screenshot of Utopia Still, showing a hijabi skater frozen in time as they jump over a cat running across the street.

Here’s one my favourite moments from my 3d diorama „Utopia Still“ that was exhibited along with so many other cool projects at #38C3:

https://42.ccc.de

It was my first time at the congress and it was such a blast! Thanks to @callforstories(at)chaos.social and all the artists 🥰

Check out the entry for Utopia Still in my portfolio for more information, pictures and videos of the project.

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtWithOpenSource #3d #blender3d #godot #GodotEngine #Utopie #Utopia #AutoKorrektur #CarFree #hijabi #skater #skating #cat #cats #caturday

How to work with Clip-Groups in Inkscape

It’s another „Write it down so I don’t have to search for it on the internet all the time“-post!

– Rightclick on the object that should be the outer form of the Clip-Group and select „Set Clip Group“ (located near the bottom of the list). In the Layers and Object panel (Ctrl-Shift-L) the object will have been put in a group (that has a tiny scissor icon on its lower right) that contains another group called „Clip“ that contains the object.
– Now either click the „Clip“ group icon in Layers and Objects or double-click the original object on the canvas to get into the same state and draw a new object inside the Clip Group.
– You can also paste / move objects in Layers & Objects into the group, they have to be above the „Clip“ group that contains the original object
– With the original object in the Clip group selected you can change it’s shape (n), size (s) etc.

Screenshot of Inkscape showing a roughly circular red object on the left with an orange circle inside it that is only party visible. The orange object is selected and the right image of the screenshot shows the object in the Objects & Layers panel being inside a clip group (of the red object) above a group called Clip that has the original red shape inside it.

Thanks to this video by yjarz on Youtube linked by Polygon in this (German) thread I made about this very topic in the Inkscape forums.

ArtVsArtist 2024

A square image divided into nine tiles, the centre tile is a photo of me drinking (a hipster) coffee, the tiles around it show the art I've done (= finished or posted) in 2024, with only slightly cheating. The images are mostly yellow / orange or blue in colour, only one is pink.

Hello! 💖 Hope you’re having a good start to 2025, Fediverse!

I had a lot of fun with #ArtVsArtist last year so let’s do it again (even though I’m even more hesitant to put my face on the internet with the ongoing #AIApocalypse then I am for privacy reasons anyway).

It feel like if been doing even less art then in 2023 and it’s somehow also less pink, something I need to change in 2025 ^__^

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