Spiro Swirls
February 2, 2010Here is a comprehensive video tutorial, (created by syllie) that demonstrates how to use the awesome new spiro swirls feature in Inkscape 0.47, which was released in November 2009.
The spiro swirls technique was first covered in a mini tutorial by AndyFitz. Andy has also uploaded a few spiro experiments to flickr, including the following:
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Illustrating a snowman using inkscape
January 31, 2010This is an amazingly detailed tutorial on creating a detailed snowman illustration using Inkscape. This tutorial combines inkscape basics — including path and gradient manipulation — demonstrating how simple skills can translate into an awesome drawing.
This tutorial was originally written in Russian by Yuri Apostol and translated into English by Alexandre Prokoudine. As an added bonus, Yuri has also added the source SVG (released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license) to the bottom of this tutorial. Enjoy!
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Inkscape 0.47 Feature – Path Highlighting
October 8, 2009Over the days leading up to the release of Inkscape 0.47, we are going to publish a series of brief screencasts that demonstrate some of the awesome new features that are in the latest version of Inkscape.
Today’s screencast shows off the awesome new feature that has been added to inkscape that displays a highlighted outline of paths when they are hovered over using the “Node Tool”
The Inkscape 0.47 Release notes has a more detail on this feature:
In previous versions of Inkscape, no visual feedback was given back to the user when hovering over paths when using the Node tool. In this update, hovering over a path with the Node tool now results in a highlighted path outline being displayed. Note: the duration and color of the new path outline feature can be configured in the Tools > Node section of the Inkscape Preferences dialog.
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Inkscape Video Tutorial Double Feature – Faking 3d Text & Wrapping Text Around a Globe
June 15, 2009Introducing a new segment here at the inkscape tutorials blog: the Inkscape Video Tutorial Double Feature. Screening this week, we have:
3D Text Using Interpolation: An example on how to use the interpolation effect to create a faux 3d (yet impressive none-the-less) text effect:
And, Secondly, we have:
Wrap Text Around a Globe:
Another awesome screencast by heathenx:
In this episode I will demonstrate how to wrap text around a three-dimensional globe in Inkscape v.046.
I used a fairly new extension from Gerrit Karius (aka G33K) called Bezier Envelope. If you want to follow along or use the Bezier Envelope for whatever future purpose then be sure to download it here. Thanks Gerrit. 
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10 of the Best Inkscape Tutorials
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With the readership of the inkscape tutorials weblog steadily increasing over the past year, there are many great tutorials deep in the blog archives that newer readers may not have discovered yet. Therefore to celebrate the forthcoming milestone of 1.5 million page views of this site, we have decided to list the top 10 inkscape tutorials that have been featured on the inkscape tutorials blog to date.
Text and Simple Styling
An awesome tutorial from Troy Sobotka detailing how to create a colourful outset text effect.
Creating a Business Card Template and Basic Business Card with Inkscape
Create a business card template using inkscape, and learn how to populate it with a simple business card design.
Shattered, Smashed and Grungy Text in Inkscape
A step by step on creating a smashed and grungy text effect using inkscape..
Create a Lightbulb Icon that follows the tango! guidelines.
This tutorial provides a detailed how-to on creating a lightbulb icon that uses the tango! icon set guidelines.
Create an impressive stick man cartoon character /Â avatar
A super detailed guide to creating a stick man cartoon character using inkscape.
Draw A Realistic Vector Guitar in Inkscape
In this tutorial, Nick Roberts demonstrates in detail how to illustrate a “Fender Stratocaster†type guitar. The final result is stunning, and the author has detailed the steps superbly with many super useful screen shots.
Creating a Coffee Cup using inkscape
Another detailed and impressive tutorial from the vectortuts website. This tutorial demonstrates how to draw a coffee cup using inkscape.
How to make RPG map elements with inkscape.
This is a great tutorial on creating RPG map symbols using inkscape. The tutorial outlines a workflow for creating a simple jailhouse RPG element.
chrome text effect
From the same author as the “Text and Simple Styling tutorial”, Here is a another that demonstrates how to create chrome text effect using inkscape.
sticker with a folded / dog ear edge
here is a cool tutorial for creating a simple sticker / decal with a folded down edge.
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Creating a Business Card Template and Basic Business Card with Inkscape
May 29, 2009Here is a great tutorial for creating business cards using Inkscape. This tutorial has two main sections.
The first details how to create a printer ready template from a PDF guide using clones and guides. Using clones in this fashion to create a template in inkscape is awesome; once the template is created correctly, the changes that are made to the original populate thoughout the rest of the tempate!
The second section provides a detailed process for creating a basic business card (with a nifty pinstripe background). This portion of the tutorial is a great introduction into basic fill / stroke techniques, pattern fills and text editing and kerning.
This tutorial is published by worldlabel.com , a maker of labels. Worldlabel are quite active over at the open clip art library producing the “Clipart of the Week” and have also donated a substantial amount of public domain clipart to the library.
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Intoduction to gradient creation and manipulation in inkscape.
May 25, 2009Here is a great tutorial providing a detailed and easy to comprehend introduction to creating and manipulating gradients using inkscape. It is aimed at the absolute beginner, but even the seasoned inkscape professional may glean a useful tip from this comprehensive tutorial. It also inadvertently provides a great introduction to the most useful dialog in Inkscape: Fill and Stroke.
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The inkscape tutorials weblog now has a twitter feed.
May 22, 2009as per the subject, the inkscape tutorials weblog now has a twitter feed:
stay tuned, more tutorials are on the way.
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simple text effect: outline styling.
May 21, 2009here is another awesome tutorial from Troy Sobotka (author of the chrome text tutorial). This tutorial details how to create the following outlined text effect:
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Shattered, Smashed and Grungy Text in Inkscape
February 21, 2009
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Create a Lightbulb Icon that follows the tango! guidelines.
February 19, 2009Here is another great inkscape tutorial from vectortuts, demonstrating how to create a vector lightbulb icon within the tango! icon guidelines.
This tutorial is a great overview on using inkscape for drawing icons. For an overview on managing your workflow in inkscape while designing icons, see the previously posted tutorial, “creating icons with inkscape – a basic workflow.”
Also, be sure to check out the vectortuts website. Even though there are only a handful of inkscape tutorials posted there, if you have intermediate to advanced inkscape skills, you may be able to apply some of the techniques from the other tutorials hosted there.
Note: This tutorial only demonstrates the process to create the light bulb icon above. The image below is a random subset of images that are in the tango! icon library. To get the tango! icons, including icons in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format, visit the download page on the tango! website.
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Realistic Guitar Tutorial
February 8, 2009In this tutorial, Nick Roberts [ of Everlong Design] demonstrates in detail how to illustrate a “Fender Stratocaster” type guitar.
This tutorial is close to one of the best inkcape tutorials out there. The final result is stunning, and the author has detailed the steps superbly with many super useful screen shots. The author even details the hex values of all the colours that are used. Be sure to check it out and leave feedback on the tutorial itself. More positive feedback to the tutorials authors means more higher quality inkscape tutorials for all…
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Yes, the inkscape tutorials blog is back…
February 8, 2009To answer the first question, No, this blog was not dead, just kind of unconscious for a few months… 
But now the tutorials are going to flow again…
While the blog was asleep, the inkscape docs crew, in conjunction with the folks over at floss manuals created the official inkscape manual. This is an awesome book that is well worth the time to download, read and utilise.
Also, be sure to forward the links to any tutorials that are not listed on this blog, so they can be posted and shared!
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simple “starburst” effect tutorial.
February 6, 2009This tutorial details how to achieve the simple “starburst” effect using inkscape. The method in this tutorial shows how to do this by manually creating clones and rotating them, which is not the most efficient way to achieve this effect. Check out the Official Inkscape Tutorial, “Tips and Tricks” for how to use Tiled Clones to make this effect quicker and easier to achieve.
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Creating a Coffee Cup using inkscape
August 25, 2008This is a detailed tutorial on creating an impressive coffee cup using inkscape.
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Playing with Spiros and Path Effects
August 25, 2008Note: This tutorial was done with a development (unstable) version of inkscape. To play with these features you will need to download a development version of inkscape or wait until Inkscape 0.47 is released.
Here is another awesome tutorial from Andy Fitz. In this tutorial, Andy experiments with the new spiros Live path effect, combining it with the existing and equally awesome patten on path LPE. The link to the tutorial is after the break.
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Niko Kiirala on Filters: Tutorial Three – Composite
July 7, 2008Here is the next tutorial in the filters series by Niko Kiirala, This tutorial covers the composite filter.
“Composite is, as the name states, an effect that can composite images together. It uses the Porter-Duff blending modes named after the writers of the paper, where it was published.
The Porter-Duff blending modes are basically logical operations applied to images. For example, you can go and take an exclusive or of two images. In the original paper there was a table showing an example of each mode and some variation of that has been included in most places, where these modes are explained.”
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Niko Kiirala on Filters: Tutorial Two – Color Matrix
July 4, 2008Here is the second tutorial in Niko’s Inkscape Filter Effects series. Today’s tutorial focuses on the color matrix filter. The quote below (taken from the tutorial) best sums it up…
Color Matrix is an interesting filter, that can mix up the colours in your image in many ways. Blanc and white images, sepia toning, hue rotation and removing one of the basic colours from image are a couple examples, what kind of modifications this filter can do.
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Niko Kiirala on Filters: Tutorial One – Blend
July 3, 2008Inkscape developer Niko Kiirala is doing an awesome, in-depth tutorial series looking at the complex area of SVG filters in inkscape. The first tutorial, which covers the blend filter is a great introduction to the inkscape filters and their use.
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using inkscape to illustrate tomatoes
July 2, 2008here is yet another awesome tutorial from kalaalog, this subject of illustration this time is a bunch of tomatoes.
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a simple drop shadow tutorial for inkscape
July 2, 2008If you are looking for a simple technique for creating shadows of simple objects, this is your tutorial.
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drawing chain links in inkscape
July 2, 2008here is a nice little tutorial on illustrating chain links using inkscape.
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Creating Icons with an on the table perspective.
June 6, 2008One of my fellow fedora artTeam members, Martin Sourada has created a great tutorial for creating icons with an ‘on the table’ perspective.
This particular tutorial links closely to the echo icon theme that the fedora artTeam are working on at the moment, but contains useful elements that can help with all icon design in inkscape.
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drawing gears in inkscape – a howto by nicu.
May 1, 2008UPDATE: Nicu has been posting incremental updates on this tutorial on his blog… to date there are 3 parts in total:
After the last few posts not being actual tutorials, today the inkscape tutorials weblog is getting back into the swing of things with an awesome little howto from nicu.
Nicu demonstrates how to create gears in inkscape, vary them and build them up to create complex “mechanisms”
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How to Illustrate A Reddish Pink Hibiscus Flower Using Inkscape
April 20, 2008here is another awesome tutorial from the equally fantastic kalaalog. This tutorial demonstrates how to Illustrate A Reddish Pink Hibiscus Flower in Inkscape. As always, the link to the tutorial is after the jump…
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