Monday, 13. November 2006, 05:32:21
I didn't touch this blog for a long time as I forecast in blog title. While I was away from here, I heard big news that said Lawrence joined Opera Software ASA as an employee. You might wonder why it was so big for me. Because he is one of the imaginal parents of "Opera-tan". He gave me the inspiration and trigger for drawing. Yeah, wearing opera gloves is his idea, of course. I would like to say "Congrats" as an Opera-fan.
Also, I want to tell about the previous Opera-tan's article. I appreciate posting positive comments, sending track backs, introducing it to the others, and making wallpapers from the SVG data ( Yudai-san, Kuruma-san, Alica ). I can't describe my gratefulness in my terribly poor English.
And I remember I have to mention another Opera-tan image. I am glad to say that Sayaka-san drew it ahead of my drawing for Opera 9.
I drew new image as a modest gift for Lawrence and the people who encouraged me ( and for you, if you like it ). The image is free to use. It's in public domain except font data.
Painted with : Painter IX.5, GIMP 2.2, Inkscape 0.44
Monday, 13. November 2006, 05:13:11
In japan, we usually paste a stamp on the upper left side of an envelope when we post a real mail. I guess that is not common in the world. It should be on the upper right. I suppose that relates the direction of writing. We use vertical writing when we write in the formal/old style. In this way, letters go top to bottom in a line, then lines go right to left. The Right side is the beginning of the sentence, and the left side is the end. Therefore pasting stamps on the left side seems to be reasonable.
The mail icon which I made for the skin imformed in the previous post has a left side stamp. I did that without thinking.
The icons were made with GIMP and Inkscape. Needless to say, both of them are open source projects and very useful applications. Today, GIMP became a mature reliable application. On the other, Inkscape is making dramatic progress. It improves day by day. I recommend Inkscape to edit SVG.
At the time I made the icons for earlier version of my skin ( about two years ago ), I mainly used GIMP. But this time, almost all processes have been done with Inkscape. I uploaded the SVG file here. You can modify and change icons whichever you want, especially the location of the stamp that may annoy you...
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