If you want to learn more about how Inkscape works, I have a 50+ part video series where I explain all of the tools and features in Inkscape and demonstrate how they work. Here's the link if interested: logosbynick.com/inkscape/
Hi Nick! Love these videos on Inkscape! I wish I had found them 2 years ago. I might be further along by now! Do you have any videos on how to use Inkscape to convert hand drawn images into vectors using Inkscape? I'd really like to be able to do that but it seems so difficult!
I just wanted to say that I learn quite a few new things every time I watch a video from you about Inkscape. You seem to talk clearly enough that the auto-generated subtitles are mostly sane enough to follow. (I'm deaf)
Hey Nick, thanks so much for this tutorial. It allowed me to quickly learn what I needed to know in less than a week to finalize a logo for a friends podcast. Never would have been able to do so without your clear instructions.
Thanks for helping me learn Inkscape Nick, I've held off on purchasing Adobe because I can't afford it at this time in life. Inkscape has been my saving grace, and your videos have become my favorite way to learn this program.
really nice tutorials, but i did find it quite difficult to follow along with the current version of inkscape, trying to find how to enable snapping where for you it was on from the get go, object menu being a drop down and not a seperate row, buncha small differences which added up, eventually got through it, but would love to see an updated tutorial!
Thanks Nick. This really helped me get a grip on Inkscape. Still studying Adobe Illustrator CS3 off and on for years but this tutorial was beast with a logo design. I had the latest version which was different than the tutorial one, but just had to learn the location of the actions to take with latest version to match yours. Great tutorial indeed!!!!!
You can buy an editable copy of this design along with 150+ other similar design templates for $5. Check out my logo design bundle if interested: logosbynick.com/logo-design-kit/
Just watched this on the Inkscape web and came here to subscribe and like the video :). Thanks for the tutorial and make it really easy to follow by a noob like me. I was searching for a CorelDraw alternatives. Will watch all your videos about Inkscape!
For anyone at the last step on 21:25 getting a wonky coin instead of a nice cut: Select the circle, goto Object > Flip Vertically (V) to flip the circle, then deselect, select the red diamond, select the circle, then goto Path > Cut path (P) hope this helps : )
Thanks so much for your videos! I've been stumbling around Inkscape for years and you answered about 10 unanswered how-to's just in one video. I have just started using it to make custom labels and was thrilled to find out about the clone command! I will have to look into your library and see if you have any videos on labels and/or cloning. If you have a link to one - I'd love to watch one. It's your little tips that really help the most!
Thanks Brenda! I have a video that I uploaded a couple of months ago about creating patterns in Inkscape. I briefly go over the clone tool in that video.
Hi Nick! Thanks for making these videos! In this video, you said you'd give a link in the description on how to set the screen and icons to match what you have for the video. Did I miss it somewhere?
Hi Nick, Thanks for a great tutorial from one who has recently discovered Inkscape. Thanks also for all the info about exactly how you make your excellent videos.
Thanks for the tutorial! I did have lots of trouble with the last part though: I couldn't get any of the path tools to work, possibly because I didn't listen as attentively as I should have.. It seems I had done "Objects -> Group" instead of "Path -> Union" somewhere along the way. Well, lesson learnt!
hey. you always go custom and the zoom 1:1. but when i do this it fits the page to the screen . where as yours look like you are zoomed in the page without page boarders, mine shows the full page with its boarders. so how do i change this to get the same view as you?
How far it appears to zoom in depends on both your display and the size of the document in inkscape. If you're using a high dpi monitor the same size document will appear smaller. You could either simply zoom in some more or increase your documents size under "File" -> "Document Properties" (Shift + Ctrl + D) where you can adjust Height and Width. In here you can as well resize the page to its content which i find quite useful.
Intersection deletes the lines entirely at 12:32. Why? EDIT: Okay, so I was able to create a second smaller square, line it up properly, and group it with the first one. It was the only way I could get the look right.
Great tutorial, thank you so much for sharing. I didn't realise there was so much that could be done with Inkscape but you've given me the confidence to re-look at it. Liked and subscribed, keep up the good work 😁
I’ve seen a lot of comments about this, so I’m just gonna share my solution: at the very last step, it cut awkwardly the circle when I follow the instructions. So instead of “path->cut path” I did “object->cut->define” and the circle turned out perfectly. I hope this helps anybody. (I translated the options “object->cut->define” from French, but it should be something along those lines if you have English set as your language)
As soon as I get to the part where we need to cut path for the circle to break down into pieces so I can get rid of the part over the text my circle changes to a weird shape. The paths are cut but I am completely unable to do what you did for some reason. Wish I could add a screenshot here.
You are AWESOME! I just downloaded the program today & within a few hrs of your various tutorials I created some cool stuff... for a beginner that is LOL Only suggestion I have (as a newbie), you do go a tad fast on some areas.
Same issue as others have: the UI changed completely. And what's the canvas size? I kept changing it because you give us object px sizes and my drawing constantly ran off the surface. Then I noticed you somehow have positive and negative guidelines all around??
Hi guys, I'm trying to do everything on my drawing tablet to build up the muscle memory for it (and because it cost alot) but when it comes to vectors I keep switching back to my mouse so should i persist or is there really no benifit in using drawing tablets for this type of vector design.
At 12:25 when I click Path>Intersection to trim the 2 lines off the wing sections it simply deletes the lines. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I've followed these directions to the letter and it's the same result several times.
You missed a previous step at 11:48 after drawing the line and changing the width you need to convert it to a path "have line selected - Path > Stroke to path", now inkscape will treat that line like a path object. (I know this comment is 1 year old, but an explanation might save someone the headache of figuring it out)
I’m sure I won’t get a response because this video is two years old, but for some reason, when I am layering the pencils (around 6:25), everything gets messed up. I follow the instructions - path > break apart, path > union, hold shift > click on the one behind, path > difference. And then the pencil on top goes completely white and I can’t select it. It’s just gone. I have no clue what I’m doing wrong, but I think I’ll just start over completely and see if that changes anything. Also, a suggestion: maybe slow down a bit in your videos? I had to replay the “path > break apart, path > union, hold shift > click on the one behind, path > difference” part like seven times, pausing after each instruction because you were moving too quickly.
Hmm. 42 seconds in and I have already hit the first thing I can't do. "Custom" does not exist in the view menu of Inkscape 1.2. Found "align and distribute", but it's on the right side now. It would also be nice to point out for beginners that pixels are not the default. I was in mm, and the sizes seemed wrong until I switched it. Terms like "Up here" aren't useful when the mouse moves too quickly. How about "to the top of the left toolbar" or something descriptive? Okay. I give up "where it says snap tocustomodes" leaves me clueless. I tried to go to other sources to see what the icon looks like, but they have whole sets of icons I don't have. I found the Advanced snapping mode option, but there's nothing that seems right. Time for a new version? This seems like it could be a great intro if it matched the current interface.
Loving the tutorial but I'm stuck trying to make the pencils behave with object to path, union, break apart and difference modes. Nothing right happens. Please help!
Hey Nick! Thanks for all of your tutorials, I'm a big fan of it. Please, could you make a detailed tutorial on the timelapse video of the pink panta? Greetings from Germany
I'm having troubles with the wings on the sides. I can't seem to get the rectangle to snap to the rest of the design and trying to get it horizontal with the pencils just moves the pencils. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
hello, me when I do the two curve on the side we must leave without the bad without kind he returns instead of being outward, sorry for my translation I am French
hello there! I always love your video and it helps me a lot with learning inkscape. Thank you so much! The new version of inkscape was just released and I have been playing around with it. I kind of liking it so far and I was hoping to hear your opinion on it? thank you
The current available version of Inkscape behaves way differently than in your tutorials. I have no 'Affect' option, and my lines don't join properly, so my pencil looks weird, with some lines longer than others, despite using the snap to corner function. This is the second tutorial of yours that I haven't been able to complete because my copy of Inkscape just doesn't do a lot of what is shown here. Might be worth shelling out for Illustrator, after all.
Mark, you probably figured it out, but for new readers here... in Inkscape 1.1 the word 'Affect' does not show. the 4 options just show up at the top. Turn off the first one. I tried to paste a pic of it but it would not paste. Also in version 1.1 the snap snaps but doesn't attach the nodes so inserted the new middle node click outside the nodes on the line. this will not attach the line to the pencil but will anchor the horizontal line so that when you press CTRL and drag the middle node up, the line ends stay where they should. 1/29/22
Hi Nick. Sorry to bother you but I'm stuck on trying to created a paint brush picture that is angled & looks like it's painted a single line. Do you have any tutorials that can help with that?
Hi Nick, you mentioned a link to customize the interface with the dark and the icons. Well, no link. I got the dark from one of your other videos, but still can't find the icons video. Could you please help me get the icons. One other thing, some times you give instructions as to which icon to press, but just mention where it is, instead of calling it by its name, sometimes we have icons located in different places on the screen. Thanks for your help. Un abrazo desde Panamá
Hey Nick, at 6:18 , I can't seem to make the pencil overlap the other pencil, I did you what said in the vid, after pressing union, i clicked the other pencil while holding down shift, then press difference but I still can't 'differentiate' them, help please?
The trick to remove the interior lines after having duplicated and horizontally flipped the pencil (dupicate the flipped pencil, then break apart, union, select other pencil and then diference) doesn't remove the interior lines for me.
Thanks Nick. Another neat tutorial. However, the cut path did not work correctly. Thanks to the folks in the comments where they pointed me out to fixing this glitch by flipping the circle before doing cut path :)
I'm good up until the point where I have to do path break apart, path unision etc My pencil is not turning fully black like yours so I think that's the problem but idk where i went wrong
Same here. It did not work until I did some research and realised the problem was that I was dealing with objects and not paths. When you've created your shape of the pencil made of paths, you need to "group" them from the path menu with union and not the object menu "group". That was my issue, maybe yours is similar. Let me know if that solved your issue.
If you are having trouble with the CUT PATHS at the end of the video. Creating the lines on the side of the circle there is a hack! Create the red square like in video, position It just the same, select the red square and circle, but INSTEAD select stroke to path, then cut path. This will make all lines disappear, but the small line that you need will just need to be stroke adjusted. Try again on other side 😊
Hi Nick, i work on a mac, and have been an illustrator user for some time, but after seeing some of your vids i would like to try Inkscape. Ive managed to get it onto my mac (with some difficulty i must say) but im interested in it being dark with your icons. Is this possible? do you know how? Thanks Hay
Hi Hayley, unfortunately I don't know how to make Inkscape dark on a Mac. I don't have much experience with Macs at all. I would try Googling it or asking around at the Inkscape forum. Sorry I couldn't help further.
Hey Nick, i love these tutorials. Thank you so much! When I click text>put on path, my text goes inside the diameter instead of outside, and the text is reversed. If I click flip vertically, it goes to the outside, but it is still reversed. Any help?
Somehow when I cut path everything went a little wonky, I went back and re did it, couldn't figure it out so I just made it work. Thank you for another great video
I had the same problem. I tried it with just a circle and two diamonds created like those in the video and got the expected results, but every time I tried it in the logo, the pieces didn't resemble a circle. I worked around the problem by drawing a rectangle across the circle so that it intersected the parts of the circle I wanted to keep. Then select the rectangle and circle, cut path. Now I have something equivalent to the video, but actually a little easier.
I was getting an hourglass-like shape after cutting path. So I CTRL+Z, flipped the circle horizontally (which looks like it does nothing but...) right before using cut path and it looked like an actual circle even after cutting.
what did I missed if I completed the logo and the line went through the top words and bottom remained on the inner circle. ..... thanks . i can say completed my first logo . I FEEL GREAT even if it's not perfect. THANKS AGAIN
If you want to learn more about how Inkscape works, I have a 50+ part video series where I explain all of the tools and features in Inkscape and demonstrate how they work. Here's the link if interested: logosbynick.com/inkscape/
Hi Nick! Love these videos on Inkscape! I wish I had found them 2 years ago. I might be further along by now! Do you have any videos on how to use Inkscape to convert hand drawn images into vectors using Inkscape? I'd really like to be able to do that but it seems so difficult!
Absolute fair price, good content... a german "fan" will buy it soon :)
I just wanted to say that I learn quite a few new things every time I watch a video from you about Inkscape. You seem to talk clearly enough that the auto-generated subtitles are mostly sane enough to follow. (I'm deaf)
Well that's good news. I didn't even know that there was an automated subtitles feature. Glad it's working out!
7 years later, the video information is still valid. Thank you.
This video revealed the steps I needed to create my first logo that was necessary to begin my business marketing, thankyou.
This is the single greatest inkskape tutorial I've seen so far. I'll be picking up your classes soon. Thank you for this one.
Hey Nick, thanks so much for this tutorial. It allowed me to quickly learn what I needed to know in less than a week to finalize a logo for a friends podcast. Never would have been able to do so without your clear instructions.
man you've got the best Inkscape tutorials in TH-cam !
Thanks for helping me learn Inkscape Nick, I've held off on purchasing Adobe because I can't afford it at this time in life. Inkscape has been my saving grace, and your videos have become my favorite way to learn this program.
really nice tutorials, but i did find it quite difficult to follow along with the current version of inkscape, trying to find how to enable snapping where for you it was on from the get go, object menu being a drop down and not a seperate row, buncha small differences which added up, eventually got through it, but would love to see an updated tutorial!
I love your tutorials. Found myself a new hobby
... and as always: Thank you for teaching!
dude! I really appreciate your inkscape videos! without them i would be totally lost! got a new hobby thanks to you!
Hi Nick,
Where's the link to the color scheme and custom icons you mentioned at 0:37 ?
Thanks
Nick explains how in this video... th-cam.com/video/HLBpzRVMu8Q/w-d-xo.html
Thanks Nick. This really helped me get a grip on Inkscape. Still studying Adobe Illustrator CS3 off and on for years but this tutorial was beast with a logo design. I had the latest version which was different than the tutorial one, but just had to learn the location of the actions to take with latest version to match yours. Great tutorial indeed!!!!!
You can buy an editable copy of this design along with 150+ other similar design templates for $5. Check out my logo design bundle if interested: logosbynick.com/logo-design-kit/
Hey nick can you help me with my logo design? I followed every step but the printers I sent it to says its messed up smh
Logos By Nick Really like the simplicity of Inkscape but my concern is the client in the freelancer.com always need .ai file.
It comes with .ai files
Logos By Nick You can save it to .ai?
Damn nick I cant get a response bro?
Thanks man! This tutorial really helped me out! :)
Just watched this on the Inkscape web and came here to subscribe and like the video :). Thanks for the tutorial and make it really easy to follow by a noob like me. I was searching for a CorelDraw alternatives. Will watch all your videos about Inkscape!
For anyone at the last step on 21:25 getting a wonky coin instead of a nice cut:
Select the circle, goto Object > Flip Vertically (V) to flip the circle, then deselect, select the red diamond, select the circle, then goto Path > Cut path (P)
hope this helps : )
Thanks so much for your videos! I've been stumbling around Inkscape for years and you answered about 10 unanswered how-to's just in one video. I have just started using it to make custom labels and was thrilled to find out about the clone command! I will have to look into your library and see if you have any videos on labels and/or cloning. If you have a link to one - I'd love to watch one. It's your little tips that really help the most!
Thanks Brenda! I have a video that I uploaded a couple of months ago about creating patterns in Inkscape. I briefly go over the clone tool in that video.
Thank you for this tutorial, I learned so much from your step by step explanations and just by following along.
Thank you Nick! Your tutorials are clear and honest, and of course, excellent! I'm going to share this with my companions.
Thanks for your work Nick, i am just getting into working with Inkscape and really love your tutorials, thank you !
Thanks Nick. I'm a newbie but I'm trying! I appreciate your time!
Hi Nick! Thanks for making these videos! In this video, you said you'd give a link in the description on how to set the screen and icons to match what you have for the video. Did I miss it somewhere?
Really nice tutorial with in depth instructions
Thanks a lot Nick !!!!!!
How am I only discovering you now. 100% I am buying your course pack. Like holy shit, you should charge 70 or more for it!
Hi Nick, Thanks for a great tutorial from one who has recently discovered Inkscape. Thanks also for all the info about exactly how you make your excellent videos.
I got pixel advert, very fitting. great tutorial Nick your work is helping me get into vector design quite easily so TY
Thanks for the tutorial! I did have lots of trouble with the last part though: I couldn't get any of the path tools to work, possibly because I didn't listen as attentively as I should have.. It seems I had done "Objects -> Group" instead of "Path -> Union" somewhere along the way. Well, lesson learnt!
What a genius! Thanks a lot, Nick!
@15:32 you turn off the "Snap to Cusp" -- I can't find it; and how do you make it appear on the top of your toolbar?
ohh myy god this tutorial is amazing
Man you really know some cool tricks!
Pretty Good x A Zillion! I have learnt so much from your channel!
hey. you always go custom and the zoom 1:1. but when i do this it fits the page to the screen . where as yours look like you are zoomed in the page without page boarders, mine shows the full page with its boarders. so how do i change this to get the same view as you?
How far it appears to zoom in depends on both your display and the size of the document in inkscape. If you're using a high dpi monitor the same size document will appear smaller. You could either simply zoom in some more or increase your documents size under "File" -> "Document Properties" (Shift + Ctrl + D) where you can adjust Height and Width. In here you can as well resize the page to its content which i find quite useful.
Intersection deletes the lines entirely at 12:32. Why?
EDIT: Okay, so I was able to create a second smaller square, line it up properly, and group it with the first one. It was the only way I could get the look right.
Great tutorial, thank you so much for sharing. I didn't realise there was so much that could be done with Inkscape but you've given me the confidence to re-look at it.
Liked and subscribed, keep up the good work 😁
Love all your vids. Please keep them coming.
I’ve seen a lot of comments about this, so I’m just gonna share my solution: at the very last step, it cut awkwardly the circle when I follow the instructions. So instead of “path->cut path” I did “object->cut->define” and the circle turned out perfectly. I hope this helps anybody.
(I translated the options “object->cut->define” from French, but it should be something along those lines if you have English set as your language)
Great video Nick btw !
You mentioned you'd share the video of your toolbar set up, and I've seen it before, but I can't find it any longer
As soon as I get to the part where we need to cut path for the circle to break down into pieces so I can get rid of the part over the text my circle changes to a weird shape. The paths are cut but I am completely unable to do what you did for some reason. Wish I could add a screenshot here.
Michael Bruley how did you fix this?
Instead of deleting the parts of the circle I dont need, it looks like its inverting parts of the circle for some reason. HELP!
I got the same problem over and over again. Dont know maybe glitch.
Thank Nick. This was really helpful...
You are AWESOME! I just downloaded the program today & within a few hrs of your various tutorials I created some cool stuff... for a beginner that is LOL Only suggestion I have (as a newbie), you do go a tad fast on some areas.
thankyou for this awsome tutorial
Thanks for the great videos..
Thank you so much for this great tutorial, I learned a lot!
Same issue as others have: the UI changed completely.
And what's the canvas size? I kept changing it because you give us object px sizes and my drawing constantly ran off the surface. Then I noticed you somehow have positive and negative guidelines all around??
Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Hi guys, I'm trying to do everything on my drawing tablet to build up the muscle memory for it (and because it cost alot) but when it comes to vectors I keep switching back to my mouse so should i persist or is there really no benifit in using drawing tablets for this type of vector design.
Awesome tutorial! Even for an Inkscape noob like me, it was easy enough to follow along with. Thanks for making this :D
At 12:25 when I click Path>Intersection to trim the 2 lines off the wing sections it simply deletes the lines. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I've followed these directions to the letter and it's the same result several times.
hAVING THE SAME ISSUE, DID YOU MANAGE TO FIX IT?
You missed a previous step at 11:48 after drawing the line and changing the width you need to convert it to a path "have line selected - Path > Stroke to path", now inkscape will treat that line like a path object. (I know this comment is 1 year old, but an explanation might save someone the headache of figuring it out)
I’m sure I won’t get a response because this video is two years old, but for some reason, when I am layering the pencils (around 6:25), everything gets messed up. I follow the instructions - path > break apart, path > union, hold shift > click on the one behind, path > difference. And then the pencil on top goes completely white and I can’t select it. It’s just gone. I have no clue what I’m doing wrong, but I think I’ll just start over completely and see if that changes anything.
Also, a suggestion: maybe slow down a bit in your videos? I had to replay the “path > break apart, path > union, hold shift > click on the one behind, path > difference” part like seven times, pausing after each instruction because you were moving too quickly.
Hmm. 42 seconds in and I have already hit the first thing I can't do. "Custom" does not exist in the view menu of Inkscape 1.2. Found "align and distribute", but it's on the right side now. It would also be nice to point out for beginners that pixels are not the default. I was in mm, and the sizes seemed wrong until I switched it. Terms like "Up here" aren't useful when the mouse moves too quickly. How about "to the top of the left toolbar" or something descriptive? Okay. I give up "where it says snap tocustomodes" leaves me clueless. I tried to go to other sources to see what the icon looks like, but they have whole sets of icons I don't have. I found the Advanced snapping mode option, but there's nothing that seems right.
Time for a new version? This seems like it could be a great intro if it matched the current interface.
Thanks a lot. just need some help for the last step, cause when i cut path its rendering something else
inverted color panels you are brilliant!
Loving the tutorial but I'm stuck trying to make the pencils behave with object to path, union, break apart and difference modes. Nothing right happens. Please help!
Hey Nick! Thanks for all of your tutorials, I'm a big fan of it.
Please, could you make a detailed tutorial on the timelapse video of the pink panta?
Greetings from Germany
just what i needed, thank you very much !
I found that Tw Cen MT Condensed Normal looks pretty good for the outside lettering
man you are simply amazing
You sir are a life saver. That is all
You are the real MVP!
I am from France and thank you very much for this beautiful video
good continuation
This is a very good tutorial. Thank you.
I'm having troubles with the wings on the sides. I can't seem to get the rectangle to snap to the rest of the design and trying to get it horizontal with the pencils just moves the pencils. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
Such an amazing tutorial.
THANK YOU SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO MUCH!!!!!!
Awesome at explaining this stuff. Thanks Sir. Good pacing as well, not too fast for slow me.
hello, me when I do the two curve on the side we must leave without the bad without kind he returns instead of being outward,
sorry for my translation I am French
Great tutorials Nick. I've just installed the latest version .02 and looking forward to tutorials on the new features.
hello there! I always love your video and it helps me a lot with learning inkscape. Thank you so much!
The new version of inkscape was just released and I have been playing around with it. I kind of liking it so far and I was hoping to hear your opinion on it? thank you
I plan to install version 0.92 sometime soon. I just want to wait a little while for all the bugs to be worked out.
Holding shift and clicking path -> difference at 6:25 doesn't work for me. I'm using a mac - should I be holding down a different key?
Many thanks again for this great video!
at 5:37, stroke to path, the union action does not take place in my trial using inkscape 1.1. Need help. Thanks.
Same issue for me. Did you solve it?
The current available version of Inkscape behaves way differently than in your tutorials. I have no 'Affect' option, and my lines don't join properly, so my pencil looks weird, with some lines longer than others, despite using the snap to corner function. This is the second tutorial of yours that I haven't been able to complete because my copy of Inkscape just doesn't do a lot of what is shown here. Might be worth shelling out for Illustrator, after all.
Mark, you probably figured it out, but for new readers here... in Inkscape 1.1 the word 'Affect' does not show. the 4 options just show up at the top. Turn off the first one. I tried to paste a pic of it but it would not paste. Also in version 1.1 the snap snaps but doesn't attach the nodes so inserted the new middle node click outside the nodes on the line. this will not attach the line to the pencil but will anchor the horizontal line so that when you press CTRL and drag the middle node up, the line ends stay where they should. 1/29/22
Hey Nick nice video but where is the info to change the screen to black and ge the customs icons
Hi Nick. Sorry to bother you but I'm stuck on trying to created a paint brush picture that is angled & looks like it's painted a single line. Do you have any tutorials that can help with that?
Love it
Hi Nick, you mentioned a link to customize the interface with the dark and the icons. Well, no link. I got the dark from one of your other videos, but still can't find the icons video. Could you please help me get the icons. One other thing, some times you give instructions as to which icon to press, but just mention where it is, instead of calling it by its name, sometimes we have icons located in different places on the screen. Thanks for your help. Un abrazo desde Panamá
man you are amazing, I just learned something today
Hey Nick, at 6:18 , I can't seem to make the pencil overlap the other pencil, I did you what said in the vid, after pressing union, i clicked the other pencil while holding down shift, then press difference but I still can't 'differentiate' them, help please?
I have the same problem... the top pencil did not change to black as well...
Same :(
The trick to remove the interior lines after having duplicated and horizontally flipped the pencil (dupicate the flipped pencil, then break apart, union, select other pencil and then diference) doesn't remove the interior lines for me.
Thanks Nick. Another neat tutorial. However, the cut path did not work correctly. Thanks to the folks in the comments where they pointed me out to fixing this glitch by flipping the circle before doing cut path :)
is it a png file?
I'm good up until the point where I have to do path break apart, path unision etc
My pencil is not turning fully black like yours so I think that's the problem but idk where i went wrong
Same here. It did not work until I did some research and realised the problem was that I was dealing with objects and not paths. When you've created your shape of the pencil made of paths, you need to "group" them from the path menu with union and not the object menu "group". That was my issue, maybe yours is similar. Let me know if that solved your issue.
Thumbs up, really helpful and good tutorial!!
Thanks for the video!. The bit after we add the numbers in, why do we need to do all that stuff before we group it all together?
If you are having trouble with the CUT PATHS at the end of the video. Creating the lines on the side of the circle there is a hack! Create the red square like in video, position It just the same, select the red square and circle, but INSTEAD select stroke to path, then cut path. This will make all lines disappear, but the small line that you need will just need to be stroke adjusted. Try again on other side 😊
Nice explanation 🤗
HI, I do not have the arrows for up and down in the part where you can slide, my arrows are from left to right. how can I change that
Awesome videos! Where did you get your fonts file? I didn't have League gothic. I'm using standard fonts for Windows 10.
it looks so cool 0.o
I really need to download and learn using it
Hi Nick, i work on a mac, and have been an illustrator user for some time, but after seeing some of your vids i would like to try Inkscape. Ive managed to get it onto my mac (with some difficulty i must say) but im interested in it being dark with your icons. Is this possible? do you know how? Thanks Hay
Hi Hayley, unfortunately I don't know how to make Inkscape dark on a Mac. I don't have much experience with Macs at all. I would try Googling it or asking around at the Inkscape forum. Sorry I couldn't help further.
Please Nick, if possible how to design the packaging luxurious and attractive، Inkscape, for cardboard boxes and bags.
Thank you.
Thanks a lot man~~
Finish my first exercise on inkscape..
already subscribed.
I'm getting frustrated with inscape as I cant even get extra nodes to generate.. I think I need to try affinity
Hey Nick, i love these tutorials. Thank you so much! When I click text>put on path, my text goes inside the diameter instead of outside, and the text is reversed. If I click flip vertically, it goes to the outside, but it is still reversed. Any help?
Somehow when I cut path everything went a little wonky, I went back and re did it, couldn't figure it out so I just made it work. Thank you for another great video
I had the same problem. I tried it with just a circle and two diamonds created like those in the video and got the expected results, but every time I tried it in the logo, the pieces didn't resemble a circle.
I worked around the problem by drawing a rectangle across the circle so that it intersected the parts of the circle I wanted to keep. Then select the rectangle and circle, cut path. Now I have something equivalent to the video, but actually a little easier.
I was getting an hourglass-like shape after cutting path. So I CTRL+Z, flipped the circle horizontally (which looks like it does nothing but...) right before using cut path and it looked like an actual circle even after cutting.
just flip the circle it wont show any changes but when you cut path it will be same as video
thanks that did the trick ! really wonder what's going on underneath to produce that
cool! it worked
what did I missed if I completed the logo and the line went through the top words and bottom remained on the inner circle. ..... thanks . i can say completed my first logo . I FEEL GREAT even if it's not perfect. THANKS AGAIN