Being Omnitarian: first personal Inkscape showroom
Alexandre Prokoudine 
23. Jun, 2012
7 Comments
Having heard “Allright, show me any interesting work done with free software” thousands of times, it's about time we started a new section called Showroom.
Here we are going to show you works created with GIMP, Inkscape etc. by different artists.
While Flickr's popularity seems to be on decline, Marty Elmer aka Omnitarian is one of the folks who make Inkscape's Flickr group worth browsing.
Many of his funny, tongue-in-cheek illustrations end up on T-shirts, and I bet that folks who got one or two for themselves take a good care of them.
Penguins & Waffles
When I say “tongue-in-cheek“ I really mean all kinds of puns. I mean, c'mon, time flies like an arrow? :)
...but fruit flies like a banana
Few years ago he was quite into challenges, drawing few dozens of pictures that share a single topic: 30 cats in 30 days, 30 monsters in 30 days, Art Show Tarot. Here's one of the pictures from the cats series.
(lol)cats of arms
Marty's illustrations tend to have physiology all over them, sometimes a bit disturbing, sometimes just funny, but they never left me indifferent.
*slurp*
Some works follow his rather distinctive style:
Planet of the hamster DJ
While others make a detour from it:
Jack of jackalopes
And some illustrations don't feature that style at all, to the point where you'd never guess Marty did that.
Please don't ______ the wildlife
Liked it? The plan so far is to keep a certain distinction between in-depth interviews with artists and the showroom which simply aims to entertain you. Disagreed? Tell us!
Great idea!
It’s true that a lot of people still believe that expensive proprietary softwares produce better results than open source free softwares… but hey, software is just a technique, the important is what you make out of it!
I’m looking forward for the next showrooms!
Showroom is a great idea! and Omnitarian work is superb!
Another very good example to give when someone says that opensource cannot give good results is to point them to the page of the Blender Institute. http://www.blender.org/blender-institute/
Great idea, about a year ago i started a testproject just for this kind of concept (And to learn a new drupal version). A dribbble like website, but for showcasing hq stuff made with open source tools.
Unfortunatly I never really got on track ... http://www.jon-ibe.be/rice , i didn’t even bother to put it offline :-)
I look forward to see more of this!
Thanks, folks :)
@Jon It’s a pity you stopped working on that. Let us know if you pick the project again.
Showroom is a great idea, keep it up =D love the omnitarian stuff, never seen it before
Really neat stuff here. I think that people saying that you can’t do anything good/useful/noteworthy/amazing with free tools, simply have never given these tools a fair chance. Like somebody above already said, a program is just a tool that has to be put to good use. Don’t know how to do that? Then the most expensive industry-standard set of programs won’t help you.
Anyway, Omnitarian’s style and humor is really fresh. Great stuff and a good example to prove those free-software-sceptics out there totally wrong :)