Evangeline McGlynn wrote:
Greetings Fedora Art group,
Hi,
My name is Eve McGlynn and I am hoping to join the Fedora Art group. A little bit about myself: my formal background is in cartography, which focuses a lot more on design than some people realize (though others are suspicious of the technical aspects, so I guess I'm doomed to always justify myself to other folks!). Outside of school though, I've always
I pretended to do myself some "cartography" when in fact what I did was gaming map graphics: http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/?gallery=rpg_map :D
had my fingers in some sort of creative medium. I currently work for Red Hat as an interaction designer, and am trying to join the Art group to better dig my heels into fedoraland as I will likely occasionally do projects in that realm for work. As far as software is concerned, I work in both the Adobe tools and Inkscape and GIMP. For most projects,
While we strongly encourage (as opposed to impose) Free tools, is a must to use Free formats, it is a lesson we learned "the hard way" with Bluecurve, so for example the .ai format is a big NO, while an SVG produced by Illustrator is passable (we can clean it with Inkscape).
I find myself using a pen and paper for most of the early stages, as it's easier for me to think with a pen than a mouse, but I'm nevertheless grateful I was born after the paste-board days of graphic design. I hope this introduction helps you folks. If there's any more you'd like to hear, please let me know!
Have you any graphics to share? -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro _______________________________________________ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
