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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.

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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.

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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Inskscape: 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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The Fox of Friendship now in my shop!

Cover of the English version of Fox of Friendship, showing the main character, the white fox as well as a fire elemental floating above a city at night.
A double spread showing the main character, Ara outside of their home as well as a page with a homeless person sleeping at the foot of a statue of a water buffalo.
A close-up of a page where Ara and Nin sneak by the Parliament of Owls.

Hello ^__^ This week it was time for my children’s book „Ara & the Fox of Friendship“ to move from my Kofi to my own webshop:

Kinderbuch / Children’s Book: Ara & der Fuchs der Freundschaft / Ara & the Fox of Friendship

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„The Shadow“ now in my shop ✨

A photo of the printed English and German editions, the cover showing the two main characters in front of a city in a valley. They're standing (on the shore?) of a lake. There's a shadowy creature instead of the reflection of one of the main characters in the water.
First page of the comic opening with a a view of a landscape with a river and a mountain cutting to the two main characters climbing that mountain.
Second page: they've reached the cliff-top and can see the next mountain with a canyon that is guarded by gigantic but cute stone figures of a bat and a bird. It's the entrance to the ancient city of witches!

Hi! I started (veeery slowly) moving stuff from my Ko-fi to my own shop. First up is my short comic „The Shadow“, with its English and German digital and printed versions:

The Shadow / Der Schatten

Still not sure if I’m really supposed to make „products“ for all the versions and then a „grouped product“ to catch them all, while the single products clutter up all places like:

https://shop.jfml.eu/?orderby=date

I feel like there should be a better way, but it doesn’t seem to work with „variants“ (which seems to be for doing all possible variants of e.g. three sizes and colours for a t-shirt). If anyone knows their way around in #Woocommerce please chime in. #Wordpress #shop #webshop #ecommerce

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„Sleepy Reading Time“ now in the shop

A nighttime scene in a bedroom, a young person is reading in bed, their book lit by a glowing crystal lizard while and old person is dozing after reading in a nearby armchair, their feet resting on a giant dog/or wolf. There's a fox sleeping on a pile of books on a chair and a giant fish keeping guard outside the window.

„Sleepy Reading Time” is now available as an A5 print in my re-opened store (moved to a new server):

Sleepy Reading Time

(There seems to be some fun time with taxes: when I open this in a private window it shows the price without taxes – which it should not do and I don’t know why 😢 )

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