Full Inkscape Beginner Course

In this tutorial I'll show you how to use Inkscape. This full course is meant to teach you the basics by giving you little design projects to work on. Try to work through 1 or 2 chapters a day and you've learned a new skill by the end of the month.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:07 1 | Installation
2:14 2 | Basic Settings
6:19 3 | First Steps
18:31 4 | Rectangle Tool
30:51 5 | Zoom, Group, Blend
37:30 6 | Text Intro, Blur, Drop Shadow, Creating a Button
42:26 7 | Circles and Ellipses, Creating an Emoji
48:31 8 | Pie Charts
53:37 9 | Hexagon, Set Clips
59:55 10 | Shield, Triangle, Rounded Corners LPE
1:03:47 11 | Stars
1:12:34 12 | 3D Box Tool Basics
1:15:11 13 | Image Clipping
1:18:06 14 | Image Cut-Outs
1:21:15 15 | Eye Dropper Tool
1:23:04 16 | Spiral Tool
1:26:31 17 | Bezier/Pen Tool
1:33:10 18 | Nodes and Arrows
1:41:10 19 | Gradients
2:01:39 20 | Pencil/Caligraphy Tool
2:03:45 21 | Text Tool
2:10:16 22 | Easy Text Effects
2:22:47 23 | Path Text Effects
2:30:54 24 | Multi-Outline Effect
2:34:15 25 | Long Shadow
2:39:48 26 | Lorem Ipsum Generator
2:41:00 27 | Spellchecker
2:42:55 28 | Install New Fonts
2:45:44 29 | Binary Operations
2:51:40 30 | Rotate
2:57:15 31 | Shapebuilder
3:03:15 32 | Editing Images
3:11:48 33 | Tracing Bitmap
3:14:10 34 | Paint Bucket Tool
3:15:59 35 | Tweak Tool
3:19:09 36 | Barcode
3:20:46 37 | QR Code
3:22:11 38 | Extensions Examples
3:25:08 39 | NiceCharts
3:31:00 40 | Pages Tool
3:33:52 41 | Spray Tool
3:38:22 42 | Intro to other Tools
3:41:55 43 | Align and Distribute
3:48:10 44 | Pattern
3:50:58 45 | Shoutout and Outro
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Links to resources mentioned in the video:
Unsplash | unsplash.com/
DaFont | www.dafont.com/
SVG Repo | www.svgrepo.com/
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Shoutout to other helpful channels on TH-cam:
/ @logosbynick
/ @tjfree
/ @daviesmediadesign
/ @ardentdesigns
/ @ironechodesign
www.youtube.com/@doctormo/videos
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My full Inkscape Playlist: • Inkscape Tutorials for...
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By the way, Inkscape is a free alternative to Adobe Illustrator. You can download it here: inkscape.org/
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Music by Silent Partner
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[@rocky-fuller]

I first used this program in middle school when I got my first Wacom drawing tablet (so a good 18-19 years ago) bc I couldn't draw lineart to save my life. So I looked up programs that would help out, and this popped up. While it took some time to place lines and edit the nodes to make perfect lines, it was well worth it. Inkscape was my first digital art program experience before I got Paint Tool SAI 1 and yesterday I decided to return to my roots and try this out again, but not just for lineart
I look forward to watching this tutorial; thank you!

[@papatoushrew]

This is awesome!

[@mauricej1887]

Excellent tutorial so far. It has already improved my workflow. Thank you.

[@joelrob8606]

Merci Michael 🥰. Le Meilleur INkscape You-Tubeur

[@potteryeti68]

Good stuff! Thank you!

[@toddlask]

im looking forward to watching this!

[@MichaelBrig]

I hope it's helpful. Let me know if something is unclear in the video.

[@ajay55fitness]

Fantastic tutorial

[@hamedrezayi5949]

So great job you done

[@user-ww3wj3ub1f]

An excellent video .I am subscribing you now. It would be helpful to see more videos on creating 3D realistic shapes using Inkscape.

[@muhammedfarispk1687]

Masterpiece

[@thomasnguyen4043]

Thanks for awesome video. I would like to ask if you have any video to help create any type of ruler?

[@MichaelBrig]

This one might help: th-cam.com/video/JMxVAqx2KUg/w-d-xo.html

[@toddlask]

great job on this and your channel! any thoughts about doing a beginners gimp video? id love that!

[@MichaelBrig]

I put it on my list. But I want to have a comprehensive Gimp playlist first with smaller videos explaining everything I can think of and somewhat close this playlist with a bigger beginner video afterwards. So it might take a year or two for me to produce it.

[@toddlask]

@@MichaelBrig cool, i was gonna look at that playlist! thx

[@snrcomputers.nirmallouis]

nice

[@Sigurdinus]

Thank you very much for the informative tutorial! I encountered a problem: If i convert stroke to path with text, it introduces weird, elongated triangles to the stroke. Many of these text effects dont work. Tested it on 2 different computers and on win 10 and wind 11. Any known workarounds?

[@MichaelBrig]

This problem occurs in Inkscape in some places. There are fragments or cutouts when certain fonts are converted to a path. The only workaround is to fix the nodes by using the nodes tool manually. It's a pain in the a** but it is the only solution I know.

[@grim789]

Hey man can you make a video on how to do multi layer designs for like a mandala or a map. I want to make them for my laser engraver and be able to stack the layers. However I cannot find one good video on the process. Either way you got a sub from me man good stuff.

[@MichaelBrig]

Can you send me an example design? Check my channel about for my email address.

[@TheLordemp]

It's a great tutorial Michael but it would help if you would identify the buttons on the tools to describe what you're doing, that would be great.

[@MichaelBrig]

I can't do that retroactively. But if you get stuck somewhere, just give me timestamp and I'll give you the name in the comments.

[@BettyMullins]

what is difference between inkscape svg and plain svg when exporting?

[@MichaelBrig]

No difference in appearance, but Inkscape SVG saves specific information in the file used in Inkscape, for example for the tools.

[@jeonggukffs]

Kuromii

[@mohsenchiany6965]

Pasha Dunum