Inkscape Tutorial - Swirls and Flourishes

[lilpjuarez]

i tried chanking the stroke and it does but once i start the line it goes back to 1

[mondrito921]

Very good Dude

[DayInDaLife]

dose inkscape has a snapping system like illustrator?

[pithikoulis]

Very good tutorial! Easy to follow and imo right to the core.

[Trenatos]

Nice, thank you for making this video tutorial.

You show in very simple steps how to create impressive end-result while using tools and techniques that can be used to create complex imagery.

Thanks!

[jenniferchula1]

SOOOO Frikin awsome! I'm in charge of makeing a background for the radio station that I work at's web site. this was really helpful! Thank you!

[TheKellaLand]

I love this, you explained things so well. I am going to be taking a digital arts course for school and will be using inkscape so I wanted to get myself familiar with it and you were great. =)

[sunshinesher]

Fantastic video. Thanks for sharing it.

[shoshiplatypus]

Cool tutorial. Love the way you used the shape from the clipboard. Thanks for sharing.

[mybrainbrokeow]

hey nice video, very helpful

[Alldeanify]

ggggggrrrreatt..... BEST TUTORIALS I'VE EVER SEEN.... U should make a website and start a school for this stuff... Awesome, good job man...

[lilcolombian659]

my strokes are really thin, how do i make the strokes a bit thicker?

[nknwn696]

@lilcolombian659 object>fill and stroke>stroke style>width

[KatSilver321]

The whole Inkscape program looks like a copy of Gimp. Are there any differences between them?

[chrisroode]

@KatSilver321

GIMP is designed to edit photographs and works with rasterized images (made of pixels). Inkscape is vector graphics, and uses points/lines to draw the images, making for ease in scalability. In combination, they are a very powerful compliment of tools for graphic design.

[KatSilver321]

@chrisroode I see what you mean, but Gimp does that too. It just doesn't have some of the same features.

[thejeffsmallwood]

Excellet tutorial. Thanks!

[MissGenk]

This was just aaaawesome!!! Thank you!

[nihon94b]

Very precise, to the point and clear tutorial.

[DanielaWebVideos]

Great tutorial thank you so much

[plaina]

Very good tutorial man! I'm subscribing.

Thanks

[makotoShadown21]

Excellent. I am new in this world and I am looking for some good tutorial and this the first that I really liked. Your explanation it is very clear.... thanks

[zkrgd]

Excellent tutorial. Right kind of pace, not too complex, and still teaching quite a number of skills. Also, I liked the explanations of difference between path resizing and object resizing.

[Adderiandei]

When i use stroke on the combined objects, the stroke still follow their old path for the single objects. So i end up with strokes inside my objects.. Any tip ?

[cha0sunity]

If anyone is running Inkscape on a Mac and you have a problem with the Shape: From Clip board just making a solid black blob here's how to fix it. Go into X11 preferences and under Pasteboard uncheck Update PASTEBOARD when CLIPBOARD changes. This should solve the problem. This will prevent you from copying from Inkscape into OSX.

[Wenders6272]

@cha0sunity Thank you so much. I've been going crazy trying to figure out what setting to change. This worked great.

[CarolUndy]

Great video. Easy to follow and I liked the pace.

[jarine2345]

Good stuff, checked out and booked-marked your site as well. Keep up the good work.

[theronb49]

Thanks, great video - I like the slower pace and thorough explanations.

[theronb49]

Thanks, great video - I like the slower pace and thorough explanations.

[Tarcruel]

I can't get it to work right :( I make sure to select the drawing first with the select tool. right click...copy to clipboard... then try and draw with the copy from the clipboard. All it shows is a filled in object or something like that... Any tips or tricks? Maybe a step i missed??? Thanks.

[cha0sunity]

@Tarcruel I'm having the same problem. Haven't figured it out yet.

[ebblyn]

Whats the easiest and fastest way to may the outline thicker? thanks! Like your tutorial but it could be a tiny bit faster. :)

[tutor4u]

@ebblyn

The outline is also called the stroke. In the bottom left corner of Inkscape you should see the word stroke. To the right of that is a color bar and to the right of that is a number. If you right-click on the number it will allow you to change the stroke width.

[fanna1119]

how would you select the thickness of he brush mine came out really thin

[XmasBeba]

Ugh. I download Inkscape from Sourceforge and it is taking forever, Google Chrome is estimating about 2 days! Currently it is 0.6/33.2 MB! OMG!

[MrJohanas127]

talk faster its irritating how slow you're talking

[lunernova69]

you are an excellent instructor my friend. im excited to look at more of your vids. thanks

[psundiam]

love it! thank you!

[THEJOKEYJOKER]

wow , impressive

[ceridwengwyon]

great tutorial! thank you!

[i2cr8]

Thank You so much for the tutorial..

[combatives]

The one dislike is from an idiot.

[combatives]

Thank you so much for this tutorial- this has opened a tremendously wide area to design- I added some with the "Glowing Metal" bevel and it looks so awesome. I could do this all day :)

[oguncak]

thanks for this amazing tutorial. i hope you keep up with further videos.

[robbiecalabrese]

Dude, for real, your tutorials are awesome. Thanks!

[razzlefan4life]

unforunitly whenever i click the select button, what i've just drawn disappears. anyone know how i can fix this? this video is very helpful but the program seems to be giving me a problem.

[papasueful]

I thought I knew how to make swirls...but you have added a whole new dimension to my mental library. The little tricks were FANTASTIC!

Thanks

[AquariusEddie]

Splendid. Thank you.

[ryantechnical]

I found my jaw drop in this video. Inkscape is so powerful! I didnt know tools like this even exitsted, for 2D. I thought this kinda stuff was only for high definition 3d softwares. But this is totally cool!

Moreover your explanation style is so good, I am just halfway through the video and i feel like thanking you in this comment.

Absolutely love your teaching style. You're really good!

Thank you so much for all of your videos. I find them so inspiring.

[r4jk3]

Excellent tut dude

[Pierus19]

Ehi thanx very very much!! I've understand how to do somenthing I was lookiing for!

[roegogo]

You are a fantastic teacher this really tells the whole story (no how did he/she do that?) now I feel I can do it you have just helped a 51 year old stay-home mom!!

[Carloskpop]

woooow that was crazy great!!

[resahsattic123]

oh my gosh! thank you so much for your videos!

[MrWilliamSide]

This, is, AWESOME. Thanks a lot for your tutorials.

[balogh89]

Great tutorial, like it! :)

[GUSTAVOMEX1]

muchas gracias por el tutorial m gusto y me sirvió suerte

[motu2323]

You're awesome! Very nice tutorials and easy to understand and follow - keep on doing them!

[manix106]

awesome, goodone mate, cheers

[dorjionthemoon]

kick ass

[LadyHaldir1]

Thank you so much. I found Inkscape right now and I'm so glad about Tutorials. I am german, but the kind of explication is easy to understanding and it's a very good demonstration.

Greetings :-)

[Hal2pointooh]

Thanks so much, I was having so much trouble understanding Inkscape!!!!!

[alex871uk]

Please can you do a tute on pattern borders? I really want to make a border that looks like a stripy stick of candy, with curved corners! Great vids, subbed :))

[aurelius1964]

nice tut - I got the same issue as Tu51ndBI4d3 tho - I'm following each step carefully!

[Diamonddusted68]

This tut is also brilliant. Thanks I love logos and vector art and this looks like the right one.

[zabboo1]

Excellent tutorial. Thank you very much.

[AlexWycz1]

I can't thank you enough! :-) Extremely clear exaplanation, great didactics... Perfect! :-)

[cgillis73]

Another really great tutorial, you have opened my eyes to things I didn't know were even possible.

[Tu51ndBl4d3]

when i copy then go to the drawing tool and set it to "from clipboard", it doesn't use the pattern that i previously drew

[tutor4u]

@Tu51ndBl4d3

You need to make sure that the pattern that you drew is selected before copying it to the clipboard.

[chrisroode]

@tutor4u

I'm having the same issue. I'm making sure to select when I copy, and I know it is is on the clipboard because I can paste it, but when I draw the path using the "from clipboard" option, it instead creates an ellipse and fills it in. I am using Inkscape on a MAC with X11 if that helps.

[Tiggeranna]

@tutor4U I am also having the same issue. I am also running a MAC 10.7.3 with X11. It does exactly what chrisroode explains above. Love you tutorials. They are great.

[objarni]

Thanks! If you had a Flattr-button, I'd click it ;)

[telcontar3]

very good - thanks!

[ekimsantos3000]

Thank You... learned a lot...............

[PenguinTutorialsVids]

Good tutorial :)

[totex1979]

Thank you.

[MrWaynemarshall]

Thumbs up ,looking forward to next one ,object to path before union was a useful bit of information

[EmptyMellon]

Very cool and informative, as always. :)