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I'm still on my "matchbook cover designs" kick and just created this flyer for an upcoming show my band Lorenzo's Music has on Jan. 17, 2009 in Madison based on a matchbook I saw. It was just an off kilter two-tone repeating square design. I set it up once again in the free vector program, Inkscape . I simply just created a black background and drew a large cream colored square on the left side. Then copied it, paste, move it over, change color, repeat. When I had them all on the left side, I pasted the original square I had on top. I replaced the color with a cloth texture I had and set the opacity to 25% and blurred it .05%. Then I copied all of that, pasted it and moved the new pasted squares to the right side. Next, I added the text in white. Copied the text, pasted it on top of itself and also filled that new layer with the cloth texture an set the opacity to 25% an blurred this to 1% to give it a glow look. And there ya go. The End :)

Montmartre Flyer Art June 7, 2008 Here's a recent flyer I made for an upcoming show I have with my band Lorenzo's Music using GIMP . I've been busy working on another art project and didn't have much time. So Instead of my usual inked character drawing style I opted for a traced photo effect I made from of an old hotel sign I had found on Roadsidepictures Flickr stream. Then I created a 2 new layers underneath. On one I filled with a mesh pattern in black and white and set the layer setting to "screen" so it would lighten to layers under it. And the one under that I filled with yellow. Next I created a layer for the text on top and set the layer as multiply so the line art of the sign would show through. Then I used a textured eraser on different areas of the text to give it a worn look. But I wanted to make sure the text wouldn't be buried in the background image. So I created a new layer, also set to multiply using the same font and off set ...