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I just wanted to say that I stoped writing to this blog and moved to the new place -  tuts.ahninniah.graphics . There is no particular reason why, but right now blogspot as a blogging platform is too bulky for me. So, please, check out my new site with new tutorial “ How to make a Jigsaw puzzle with Gimp and Inkscape ” and many others that will come out soon. See you there! :)   

Hello everyone who still reads my blog! It’s been awhile since I’ve posted the last Inkscape tutorial. But this long hiatus was only in favor because I try to get more knowledge to share with you. And next year, I hope to prepare something quite different from the way it was before. I want to say special thanks to those people who comes to my blog on a regular basis: the total number of views is more than 70 thousands and this number is growing every day. Thank you very much! These are the nice little things that make me very happy :) About requested tutorials (unless you hadn’t proposed one, you can still do it  :) I remember about them, but unfortunately I couldn’t make them as fast as I would like. And I’m doubly ashamed for that. Also, if you haven’t noticed the widget on the right side of my blog, I opened a Facebook page related to my work, just to have a place to share my new works, news, projects, and etc. If you are interested, feel free to come inside :) What about my fu...

My Food Monsters Pack is live! Happy Halloween :) >> Download "Food Monsters Pack" .zip archive

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This weekend I took part in Ludum Dare (for the fifth time). Ludum Dare is an accelerated video game development competition. The theme was "10 Seconds". For three days, our team created a game named Buzzbuster  - an arkanoid like game with bees in the hive. The game can be played here . It was super fun, as always, can not wait for the next Ludum Dare event. All graphics for the game were created with Inkscape. = Project page on Behance =

Before we begin, I strongly recommend you to read the first tutorial in this series, named “Creating a female cartoon avatar in Inkscape” . Many steps of this tutorial are the same that in the previous one, so I’m going to omit them. They are: setting the interface, creating paths, choice of colors, adding volume etc. All these can be found here . Picture №1 Create the basic elements of the character: the head, ears, neck, the shadow under the head and shoulders. It should be noted that in this case the head looks almost square and shoulders are sharper. Picture №2 1. Make an eye more rounded. Eyebrow can be created in two ways: by curving the ellipse path (F5) ;  with the Bezier curve (Shift+F6) in “Ellipse” shape mode. If the width of the path does not suit you, you should convert the object to path (Path > Object to Path) and go to the menu Path > Dynamic Offset (Ctrl+J) . By dragging the white pointer to the left and right, you change the offset distance. To be able to...

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Fran Bow - is an awesome game that needs to be funded. If you like horror games and horror stories, you should check it out . This fan art was made by me and devolonter (as an advisor) to support our mates, indie game developers from Killmonday studio .

Avatar is the graphical representation of the user in social networks, forums, games etc. In other words, it’s his alter ego. Usually 2D-avatar is a square image which has a small size (100x100px, 64x64px). And that's why we should delete all unwanted items and keep the most important ones when you create it. Otherwise, it would be either difficult to see the details after size reduction, or they will make the image blurry. There are several useful features in Inkscape that can help you create avatar easily: View > Icon Preview will let you preview the page or selected objects as an icon in different resolutions (16x16px/24x24px/32x32px/48x48px and 128x128px). View > Duplicate Window will open a new window with the same document in which you are working. By editing the original document, the changes will be made in duplicated one. However, you can make changes in both windows. This feature can be useful when working in Inkscape as a whole, not just for creating an avatar. T...

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Symbol font has nothing in common with symbol set of alphabet letters. It consists of symbols that can not be read and it is often used as a decoration. For modern web developers such font become the real escape from the infinite routine, which is connected with the preparation of icons (for example, social network icons) to display on different devices. When there is only one symbol - it seems not so difficult. But if you have several dozen of such symbols? Thanks to symbol fonts there is no need to save one file in different resolutions. With the help of CSS, you can change the color of symbol fonts, what can’t be done with regular icons. Also the biggest advantage is that these icons can change their size without losing quality. The last thing is important for high-resolution displays, such as Retina. It is also possible to apply different text effects to symbols (such as drop shadow). Besides, they are supported by most modern browsers. There are special construction services that ...

When you come across with perspective for the first time, in the beginning it seems that this artistic tool is very difficult to master. But in fact, everything is much easier — you just have to understand what it represents. And eventually tenacity and practice will do the trick. To begin with, let’s discuss a little theory . Perspective is used for drawing three-dimensional object in the two-dimensional plane. Its use allows to visually enhance your picture. There are many types of perspectives, but we will examine the creation of the most basic ones. The first thing we need to know in order to construct a picture in perspective is the location of the horizon line — the line where the sky seems to meet the land. Despite your position, this line will always be at your eye level. Then, on the horizon line we place vanishing point, wherein auxiliary lines come together. By using these vanishing lines, we can build a three-dimensional object in perspective. Lines which are not absolutely...

Here is my practice result drawing in isometric projection in Inkscape.    The feedback from the previous tutorial was absolutely amazing. So right now I’m working on the next one - “Drawing in perspective with Inkscape”.