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How I Did It
Tools, Hammer, Spanner |
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| by: | Andy |
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| date: | August 29, 2006 05:16 pm |
| tags: | media, clip_art, how_i_did_it, editorial_pick, hammer, spanner, tool, hardware, work, config, setting, develop, build, icon, logo, contour, glossy, shiny, colour |
| license: |  |
| ratings: |
 
(4.45/24)
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| Reviews (2) | |
Editorial pick...
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Tools I Used
inkscape, svground, gedit
Original Samples
- The spanner and hammer illustraions.
- stylesheet
- xml layout
- final composition
Process
I created outlines for both the spanner and hammer ( had them both rotated at 90 degreese so that i could see the balance)
Separated the handle, neck and head elements of the hammer by duplicating the path and removing nodes from unwanted areas.
Added shapes for specularity and applied linear gradients to them.
Cleaned up the node coordinates with a svground script.
Put the both outlines in the of the xml and applied self-clipping around them for internal stroking.
Other Notes
I'm pretty happy that this piece is resolved.
It can be easily altered to suit any style via editing with a plain text editor and is marked up semantically enough to be a good example of SVG composition.
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