I have to say, I found working with R to be more fun than Inkscape. Despite handmaking Mother’s Day cards every year since I was a wee lass, my graphic design eye is not that sharp. One of my most startling (and later annoying) discoveries while working through these exercises was that my apartment is horribly lit – I dragged nearly every lamp in the house to my desk before finding one that could sufficiently light the examples in the book so they’d look something like what I what I could match the colors to on the screen.
After having trouble locating the correct fonts in Inkscape to match those used in the book, I’ve decided to dismount my Inkscape Open-Source high horse and embrace the use of Adobe Illustrator, at least for the last finishing touches. I have not received grades for the below yet, but know that there is a lot of room for improvement.
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