First of all, critiques are fine. I admit, I'm not totally happy with the tail lights either. I'll probably end up taking the blur off, but I would need to be more careful with the shapes inside, and I don't have the time right now. I'm finishing up a bunch of grad work while I'm teaching, so I'm ju...

Thanks! I do try. We've gone completely to open source. We teach Gimp, Inkscape and Al.chemy. I'll actually be teaching two classes for art teacher this summer, showing them how to use these programs. Mostly Gimp, but I'm getting better at the vector stuff. I did my first car last week, and learning...

Oh, it worked! Not bad for his first project in vector.

You people rock! It was the spiro-spline on the Pencil and Pen tool. (You have to love when students start clicking random buttons on a new program. :? :P) I figured it had to be something like that. I just didn't know what they clicked. I'll have to post some projects up here to show you all. One o...

Hey everyone, I'm a high school teacher who teaches some Inkscape, though I'm not a vector wizard, by any means. I have 2 students in my class who cannot curve the paths on their shapes. More accurately, the line jumps from either completely straight to a perfect circle. There is nothing in between....

Thanks again for the help, everyone. Just for the record:Two of my students got their projects done in time for the biggest high school art show of the year. One of them got theirs in, and we're waiting to see how far it will go. It looks like the project has a lot of potential! I thought you might ...

Thanks for the help, everyone. Good news: I did find out that you can export from Alchemy in SVG or PDF, so I can get it in a vector graphic. I'd still love to have layers and the ability to undo, but I've worked it out enough for my students to do this as a project. They'll just have to paint over ...

The digital painting of the trapeze artist in red and blue. I did this in Alchemy. The entire painting is done in gradient shapes. I'm not sure what EvilInfancy is. Hmmm...

Well, here's another link to my image. This one is public, so it should be easier to see. :) http://www.wix.com/craig_huffman/craighuffmancentral#!sketchbook Unfortunately, there are several 100 shapes on this image. I think I might have to do this in another program than Inkscape. The only way I ca...

I thought I posted this, but it's not here. Thanks so much for the help. I'm a bit bummed by the answer, but that's hardly your fault. The only way I can see the project to be feasible as I want to do it is if there's a way to make a gradient hot key. So, I could make the gradient shape, then hit a ...

I'm including a link to an image I made in Al.chemy. It's basically a series of shapes with gradients, drawn over a monochromatic photo. After doing it, I was disappointed by the resolution. It occurred to me how cool it would look done in vector. Also, Al.chemy has no layers or undo function. I rea...

I'm a high school art teacher who is trying to use Inkscape in my computer graphics class. I'm very new to Inkscape, but I've been searching my Inkscape book, Google, tutorials, and the forums for an answer to this question. I've had no luck. I want to be able to draw shapes filled with gradients wi...