{"id":338,"date":"2005-11-07T21:44:37","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T13:44:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:55:09","slug":"more_mouse_drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2005\/11\/07\/more_mouse_drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"More mouse drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/b2evo\/colour.png?w=840\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stages to make this image after the jump.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sketch basic image in the GIMP (3 pixel circle):<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/b2evo\/heidi.png?w=840\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fill holes (make sure there are solid lines between differently coloured areas):<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/b2evo\/heidi_closed.png?w=840\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colour in image using fill tool:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/b2evo\/heidi_colour.png?w=840\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Create a vector outline from black and white image with no holes (using potrace in InkScape):<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/b2evo\/vector.png?w=840\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Create a vector image from colour image, remove black outlines, and dilate all shapes. I used &#8220;autotrace&#8221; for this because it does proper colour vectorisation, but I used potrace for the black and white vectorisation because it produces nicer outlines.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/b2evo\/colour_only.png?w=840\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, composite the two images (and then change the various fills to gradients for the final image above):<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/b2evo\/composite.png?w=840\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, I also changed the colour of the left wall. I don&#8217;t know how it made it so far into the process in <em>the wrong colour!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230; I never thought that I would say this, but I think the non-gradient image probably looks better! \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stages to make this image after the jump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-5s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3945,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/3945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}