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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: megasoth on March 20, 2019, 11:06:28 AM
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After making this question on another forum I was directed to a vector graphics community and since I've been praticing with inkscape...
How do I design with this style?
(best example of what I wanted)
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/db/5d/c4/db5dc4aad8ea096f682cf6c256acc76e.png)
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Welcome to the forum!
I guess you mean how to draw those traditional Asian characters? Or are those meant to look like Asian characters, but they aren't really? (I don't read those languages at all.) I'm sure there must be fonts that will do that. Or you might find some Inkscape Symbols or Glyphs files for various Asian characters.
Or if you really want to just draw them.... I guess the Calligraphy tool is one option for that. You can set the end (nib) to be flat or any angle, and you can set the width to whatever you want. Other than that, I would probably use the Pen tool, and make wide strokes, say 10 to 20 px wide.
Pen tool: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-Creating.html#Paths-Bezier
Calligraphy tool: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-Creating.html#Paths-Calligraphy
Symbols, Glyphs, Text: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Text-Creating.html
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Hi.
If I'm not mistaken you are after that gradient fill and for that outline with pointy highlights.
The gradient fill can be added by the fill and stroke panel alongside the stroke.
If you want a custom shading on the edges, somekind of filtering would be a fitting way.
Either that being blurring objects manually and clipping them, or using a more complex one, the result not transfers well to pdf-s so we'd need to know more about the details.
Wether you are after a full vector drawing or not.