Helen just a quick note, with a black & white sketch, there's a way to vectorized it in inkscape
One of the tutorial http://inkscape.org/doc/tracing/tutorial-tracing.html On 01/21/2011 12:48 AM, Helen wrote: > Inkscape, Gimp and a program called Artrage that I have on my mac. > It's a nice little program with a realistic interface - you can pin > references around your work just like you would in real life. Oh also > I found an online SVG 'translator' to vectorize my drawing > > http://www.roitsystems.com/cgi-bin/autotrace/tracer.pl > > However I am *so* not a designer - I mostly use pencil and watercolor. > So a bit of a learning curve. Also my work is usually a naturalistic > look, not the crisp cartoon style that we use for illustration. > > I don't know how it got from "I'll take a look and see if I can come > up with something" to "Helen assures me she's all over it...." > > I'm thinking of doing some photo-editing instead, there's a few nice > public domain images which will look good with a green background. > > However I keep hoping Robert will wave a magic wand.... > > (meanwhile trying to get my drivers sorted on the desktop so I can > actually apply some processing power....) > > cheers > > Helen > > > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Chuck Payne <terror...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Helen <postmodernhousew...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> This is the little guy I'm working on. I'm having a bit of trouble >>> getting the effects I want with fills at the moment... hopefully I'll >>> get it figured out soon or I may end up going back to old fashioned >>> watercolour + scanning !!!! >>> >>> cheers >>> Helen >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Kostas Koudaras <warlord...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> For me it's enough so that I can translate it... >>>> Kostas >>>> >>>> 2011/1/19 Chuck Payne <terror...@gmail.com>: >>>>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Helen <postmodernhousew...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Chuck, Robert might want the source files for this. >>>>>> >>>>>> Robert, the white space is a little scattered, would you like to take >>>>>> a preliminary look at layout, maybe 'tweak' the arrangement a little >>>>>> bit, to one or two larger blank spaces rather than many small ones if >>>>>> possible. I have a design for a Chameleon hanging around the top and >>>>>> side of a box that could work. I'd prefer that than having small >>>>>> cliparts all over. >>>>>> >>>>>> However I could do some small icon-like drawings as an alternative. >>>>>> >>>>>> I welcome other ideas. >>>>>> >>>>>> If I know where the free space is I can design the art to fit it. >>>>>> >>>>>> best, >>>>>> >>>>>> Helen >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Awesome! And Helen is telling me she's all over it to add some nice >>>>>>> artwork to >>>>>>> it, really cool. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> As reminder, we're going to get about 50.000 posters out to readers of >>>>>>> linux >>>>>>> magazine, double-side printed. One side should have this cheat sheet, >>>>>>> one side >>>>>>> a cool 11.4 poster. 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