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Srevin Saju

So, I happened to stumble across Inkscape 's v1.3 Splash Screen Contest yet again.

inkscape.org/gallery/=about-sc

inkscape.orgContest for 1.3 on the Inkscape websiteWelcome to the Inkscape Community About Screen Vote for Inkscape 1.3! This year's contest topic is "Celebrating 20 years of Inkscape" Thank you for your votes on the community's stunning contributions! The five finalists will be handed over to Inkscape contributors to vote on. Note that the contributor voting has been delayed due to a change in the voting location, so results will be available a few days later than we had planned initially! We use ranked choice voting to select the winners. Read more about the contest
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Mar 21, 2023, 03:46 AM·Public·Web
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Srevin Saju

The deadline ended on Sunday, and my exams ended on Saturday. I really needed a break - let's try submitting something new!

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Srevin Saju

Step 1: Brainstorming - What are the current important changes in the art world? And how is it impacting artists? - AI was something which hit my head first - We have DALLE-2, ChatGPT and a lot of other interesting software which create art. How can we incorporate that into a picture?

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Let's try to make AI and Humans work together on creating a new art style - maybe like, a missing piece of puzzle that an artist needs to put into their drawing perhaps.

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Step 2: Keywords - Now that I have the skeleton concept ready, here are some keywords I gathered - and yes,

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Step 3: Mapping - Let's map the ideas out there on the sheet: I have this small idea where we have a robotic hand with a puzzle piece, trying to complete a picture, inkscape logo at the center, a human hand drawing with a paintbrush. The drawing divided into two halves, left side has a more technical art style, right side is more creative and natural.

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I don't know how to draw a robotic hand holding something, and it has to be a puzzle piece. Let's try something on DALLE-2

A set of pictures which have robotic arms trying to hold a puzzle as generated by DALLE-2. The prompt is "a robotic hand and a human hand arranging a jigsaw puzzle of a beautiful picture together"
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Next, I had the idea where I would transition color swatches on the left side (technical) to a cityscape over different colored skies on the right (natural). Let's try this prompt: "Color swatches and transition to night sky digital art"

A set of pictures showing color swatches and night skies separately.
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Although in both cases, I did not receive what I wanted as-is. But, it provided a good base case for me to work on, time to draw!

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On to the blueprint!

As you can see, it looked very bad in the beginning, but I think it got better over time. This is a draft, and yes, I had to remove certain parts of this blue print too for the final picture.

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Step 5:

Now I had the base outline on which I would draw. Converting every piece into a vector was not a trivial task too.

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Srevin Saju

The v1.3 Splash screen contest has a bunch of amazing and creative outputs! I liked many new art styles and concepts. Do check them out too!

inkscape.org/gallery/=about-sc

inkscape.orgContest for 1.3 on the Inkscape websiteWelcome to the Inkscape Community About Screen Vote for Inkscape 1.3! This year's contest topic is "Celebrating 20 years of Inkscape" Thank you for your votes on the community's stunning contributions! The five finalists will be handed over to Inkscape contributors to vote on. Note that the contributor voting has been delayed due to a change in the voting location, so results will be available a few days later than we had planned initially! We use ranked choice voting to select the winners. Read more about the contest
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Srevin Saju

The About screen contest happens for every release, if you would like to participate, keep a look out on @inkscape's mastodon account or keep an eye on this page!

inkscape.org/gallery/=about-sc

inkscape.orgAbout Screen Contest on the Inkscape websiteLong-time Inkscape users may have noticed that the About screen is different for each major version of Inkscape. Traditionally, just before each new version is released, the community celebrates by holding a contest to choose a new image for the About screen. The goal is to show off what the new version can do, in an artistic manner, as well as to announce the release. The art is often also used for the inkscape website and other materials while the release is the latest version available. See below in the Galleries list on the right for a list of contests to join in. Learn more...
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