- Introduction
- The Interface
- Basic Shapes and Selection Tool
- Follow Along Exercise 1 - Basic Shapes
- Fill and Stroke
- Gradients
- Follow Along Exercise 2 - Gradients
- Exercise - An Egg
- Boolean Functions
- Paths and Nodes
- Follow Along Exercise 3 - Refining
- Exercise - Yin Yang
- Layers
- Bezier Curves
- Follow ALong Exercise 4 - Clouds
- Exercise - An Owl
- Groups
- Importing
- Tracing I
- Tracing II
- Exercise - Tracing
- Follow Along Exercise 5 - Tracing the Eagle
- Follow Along Exercise 6 - Tracing to Tree
- Follow Along Exercise 7 - Putting it Together
- Outro
What you'll learn
- Students will be able to use the basic inkscape tools
- Students will be able to create colourful and crisp vector graphics
Description
This course is aimed at the complete beginner, where the very basics of Inkscape are learned. This section is great for getting started in vector art in general and Inkscape in particular.
Inkscape is highly acclaimed vector art software, and it is completely free and open source. If you want to get started creating vector art without splurging on license fees then this is a great place to start. Once you have gained the key skills you can easily and painlessly switch over to commercial software if you want. (Or you can continue using Inkscape of course!)
Contents of this section:
- The interface
- Basic shapes
- Fill and Stroke
- Gradients
- Boolean functions
- Layers
- Bezier curves
- Groups
- Tracing
This course is completely free, and provides the prerequisites for my other Inkscape courses:
- Creating Seamless Patterns and Tiles
- Mastering the Filter Editor
You can also bundle the courses and buy "Creating 2D Textures in Inkscape" and get an additional two sections with of examples.
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About the instructors
- 4.5 Calificación
- 31356 Estudiantes
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Paul Gieske
Teacher and Engineer
Hi, my name is Paul and I am an IT teacher and an engineer. As a teacher / engineer I can combine my strong technical background with the experience I gained in passing on skills and knowledge to my students.
As a teacher I believe that it students learn better when they are learning actively. That's why I include a lot of practice exercises in my courses.
In addition to my day job I absolutely love digital illustration!
Student feedback
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Easy to understand. I have learned the basics. Very beneficial for me. Thanks...
I've tried using inkscape already and couldnt make an y sense from it . I tried watching some You Tube videos but thy assumed alot and were of no use. THis is great and just what I needed.
Simple and straight to the point
Great course! Thank you for share your knowledge!
Very thorough, with enough examples to help the learning experience.