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„Sleeping Guardian“ print now available in my shop!

Illustration of a mound with trees on top and the ocean in the background. In the hill there's the entry to a grave with two glowing eyes in the dark and a black fox sleeping above the cavern entry.

Dear Blogvoyagers! ⛵

I reopened my #shop and added this #print: 🐺

Sleepy Gaurdian – A3 Print

Looking for feedback, #WooCommerce is quite the beast with shipping zones and taxes etc. If something doesn’t make sense, please tell me ^__^

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Return the Wolf

Vector illustration with outlines (new terrain for me!) showing a bird's eye view of a rural landscape with lots of forest that forms the head of a wolf (the ears are mountains, the eyes and nose are lakes etc). It's night with a moon, no cars but public transport (train and bus). Around it is written: „Return the wolf, let nature heal.“

This illustration is inspired by a #documentation on the benefits of returning #wolves to #Scotland, they could hold the deer (and sheep!?) population in check so natural forests could regrow! Just imagine the #highlands a huge forest!

Check out my portfolio for detail images and a process video.

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Envelope character with a long letter coming out of it that is also a character on a pink background with more envelope characters, some of whom are cat envelopes?
Sneak peak of my second newsletter: it shows a photo of original Space Invader sketches, followed by a text about how I went to a videogame exhibition in Edinburgh. The next picture is a photo of my project „Utopia Still“ being exhibited at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg followed by a text about setting up the exhibition and being at the congress.

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Inkscape-Tutorial: Make duplicated clones / instances real

Inkscape has a bug where it only exports a white page when duplicates / clones are present on the page. To get around this do:

– Edit > Clone > Unlink Clone (Shift-Alt-D)

Also, while I’m on it:

Scale many objects around their individual centres:

– Ungroup Objects
– Transform Menu (Ctrl-Shift-M) > Scale
– Tick „Apply to each object seperately“

Thanks to SMBiggs on Stackexchange.

Avocados gegen Hass 💫

Illustration of (half) an avocado character on light pink background that is kicking a swastika to bits. Above it a 3d-text says „Avocados gegen Hass” (Avocados against hate).

Always wondered why it’s called „Hass Avocado“ (Hass meaning „hate“ in German, so „Medium Hate Avocado“ 🤔)* and since the whole western world seems to be turning fascist I decided Hass Avocados are actually not ok with all this bs.

Be like the Hass Avocado and stand up against hate!*

* I since learned that the surname of American who cultivated that variety of avocado was Hass:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Hass

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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.

Inkscape: How to split / break one object in two

Since it’s the three-bazillionst time I’m looking this up I’ll write it down here so I can find it easily.

You split an object in two at certain nodes by selecting two nodes and then pressing:

– Shift-B (Break apart at selected nodes) as pointed out on Stackexchange.
– Ctrl-Shift-K (Break apart again but the path/object this time, I guess? This always confuses me to no end, why this is a two-step process? Only the almighty SVG goddess knows)

I’ll preserve the handy graphic that user Brecht (see link above) made in case Stackexchange goes full enshittify mode in the future:

Schreenshot of the menubar in Inkscape that has all the node buttons with red arrows pointing to their keyboard shortcuts: Join Selected Nodes : Shift + J Break Path at Selected Nodes: Shift + B Join Selected Endnodes with a New Segment: Alt + J Delete Segment Between Two Non-Endpoint Nodes: Alt + Del

Wild Fired Art Market was really good!

Photo of a table with a white tablecloth inside a shop. There are lots of my stickers, postcards and prints on the table. Beside the table stands a tiny dog in a raincoat.
Me sitting behind the table (wearing a mask) while a listening to a person in front of the table talking and gesturing.

Had a really nice time last weekend at the winter market from Wild Fired Pottery!

Thanks so much to Maya, Stephen and the rest of the team as well as my fellow artisans and the visitors who braved the rather terrible Scottish weather! ^__^

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Wild Fired Art Market ❄️

Illustration of a fox and hedgehog having a winter picnic on a snowy peak. Warrior squirrel needs some sleep but it looks like mountain ghost is going to join!
Poster from the Wild Fired Market with text and swirly lines and dots with circles around them on a blue and yellow gradient background. The text is the date, time location and I mention in the post.
My stall from Colony of Artist which will be similar for this market, lots of postcards and stickers as well as (not pictured here) prints and book), all very brightly coloured.

Lovely Edinburgh folk! 💖 I’ll be at the „Wild Fired Winter Market“ this Saturday, Dec 7, 10 – 4 pm, 16 Montrose Terrace here in Abbeyhill, Edinburgh!

If you’re up for a small art and pottery market this might be just your thing ^__^

There’s also TAGS (Tabletop & Graphic Storytelling) Festival ( https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/tags-fest/ on Saturday only twenty minutes walk away in the Fruitmarket, which also hosts the Winter Makers Market on Saturday as well as the Edinburgh Creative Trail: https://www.edinburghopenworkshop.co.uk/news/2024/10/28/leith-creative-trail-2024/ if you’re up for more arty things on that weekend 🎉 #edinburgh #art #creative #gifts #events

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Fedicard

An illustration of a Magic – The Gathering style trading card showing an island at night saying „Temporary Respite > Birch Cove – Fantastic Landscape: It can be a cruel world out there, so stay a while, look at some pretty art, recharge and then go on changing it for the better.“ The card is surrounded by flowers and grass, a butterfly, a ladybug, a cup of coffee, drawing utensils as well as a small plate with nuts, chocolate and raspberries on it.

Hi! Remember #FediCard? I decided to make an illustration around one, way after it was cool and then kinda lost steam … But since it’s theme seems to only getting more relevant I decided to post it anyway in all it’s unfinished glory ^__^

I’ve long struggled with my art not being deep or political enough and while I do see a worth in giving people the chance of not thinking about terrible events for a second it still feels not enough …

Emoji by #OpenMoji

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