Originally posted on Inkscape forum monthly challenge:



I was going to skip this month's challenge. But then I thought about gargoyles. And I remembered that I always wanted to make a 3D city scape. This piece does not have the completed cityscape, I'm still working on that.

In a reversal of my last month piece I spent most of my time creating the back ground and only a few days on the subject, But I put a lot of thought into this gargoyle, Doing "organic" shading is more challenging than the simpler geometric shapes of a robot.

When a had completed most of the statue I wanted to overlay a stony or concrete texture over it. I never really played around with filters in Inkscape mostly because a cant do perspective warps on them, but wanted to experiment. I first tried "film grain" and I though it was perfect and didn't' bother looking further. I overlayed other grime and weathering effects and surprised myself. I really need to do more with filters.