Does anyone know of any good inking tutorials using Inkscape? I found microugly's post about using the :tool_calligraphic: (calligraphy tool) and :tool_tweak: (tweak tool) which is really good info. However, it's not quite what I'm looking for. I was hoping there was something out there with a more ...

wow it looks very fancy and ethereal I would only add one ore thing, some shine :) Use white radial gradient, maybe choose the center glow as the light source Great suggestion! I'm just not having much success implementing it. I've tried a couple of times and haven't liked the result yet. Inkscape ...

My first Inkscape creation. It's supposed to resemble an hourglass of sorts. Comments welcome.

thanks to Prkos and Brynn for their responses to my thread in the help forum.



-Abro

Currently Inkscape uses antialiasing on the object edges, it means that the edges are blurred just a bit to make them look more attractive and natural (when they stand alone). The downside is the example you stumbled upon: when you snap 2 objects together that small blurred edge area can become a p...

Are you sure your node sculpting is perfectly symmetrical? Nope, I'm not sure. I'm still pretty noob. The whole point of me creating only 1 quarter of the hourglass was too ensure symmetry. :D I didn't rotate the rectangles that I differenced the circle with.. so the right and bottom edges should b...

Hi all.. I was trying to create an hourglass icon and decided in order to get it perfectly symmetric I'd just create a quarter section of the hourglass.. duplicate and flip it horizontally.. and then duplicate that and flip it vertically. Unfortunately I ran into a snag... These were my steps. 1. :t...