Easter Thanks

For those of my followers who are NOT religious heres a #free download you can get from my #deviantart site

https://jvartndesign.deviantart.com/art/thanks2018A-738253093

Important Updates Coming

Some changes to this blog and linked sites

Freebies will be on my DeviantArt Site

Low tier rewards on patreon

Patreon may be changing to per rewards

Most importantly more art will be going up before and over the Easter long weekend and next week before Easter.

March Sinus Pattern

March Sinus Pattern

So how did I make this one.

#gimp #render #pattern #sinus

I then set #sharpen to 97 %

Then applied #polarcoordinates map from top to polar

then #gaussianblur to remove a join mark amd applied Sharpen again

If you open it on a large screen full size you will find it has a pleasing slight graininess that softens it so its not going to induce eyestrain

If you can't right click to download it here you can get it from my Freebies folder on my DeviantArt page.

March Madness 2018

#marchmadness #2018 #freebie

My latest digital delight made with #inkscape
Two combined filters one from the textures submenu  the other from shadow over #jokerman font

Here's my latest digital delight 

You get to decide whether this goes on #DeviantArt or #Patreon!

How? By making a simple comment on this post and stating briefly why you prefer one or the other .

Whichever site gets the majority of mentions in the first ten comments will be my criteria!

GIMP FILTERS COFFEE STAIN AND PLASMA

#gimp #filters #coffeestain #plasma #demo #freebie #opensource #creativecommons

One can get surprising satisfactory results combining Filters that seem unlikely matches.

In #Gimp under the #filters RENDER submenu theres CLOUD and within that Plasma

Next go to Filters - Decor - Coffeestain

I set the parameters for 5 stains and NO Darken

Then I cropped it a bit and changed it to a square and tiled it using Small Tiles 

you can crop this in half again duplicate the uncropped part and flip and move it 

I declare the files created for this demo to be #creativecommons #opensource 

free for ALL non commercial usage

That means you  can use it for  your own portfolios or workshops or classes or demos  or as part of your own designs but you can not sell the results unless its a fund raiser for a genuine charity

Also please link back to this page or any of my other sites 

Supporting my #redbubble shop would be greatly appreciated !

https://www.redbubble.com/people/scholara

Making Mountains Two

#gimp #fractals #digitalart #patterns

Making Mountains TWO

I started out with this pattern generated by #gimp #fractalexplorer

then after some color edits and cropping and tiling I had

Copyright Julie Vaux 2018

Fine if I just wanted a print with a landscape orientation but I need a) to emphasize certain parts of the pattern and b) have proportions that work well on a variety of objects available from #Red Bubble 

Copyright Julie Vaux 2018

So I changed the proportions to a square and finally I created yet another version with a portrait orientation and used the #emboss #filter

Copyright Julie Vaux 2018

Theres also one other version with a slightly different crop I may put on DeviantArt?

I hope like me you can see the triangles and curves as mountain slopes and ranges soaring into the sky? This will be going onto #redbubble very soon!