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Inkscape Doodle #3

By Debra Wilson, on June 25th, 2010

Trying out some of the options on the pen tool and I doodle up this little face wearing an earring. Not very exciting, but it was fun to try the new tools out and start to get a feel for them. Why its mouth is blue I’m not sure, but the other colors I tried just didn’t seem to fit it very well.

Hopefully I’ll have another doodle up soon trying out another tool that looks fun.

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Inkscape Doodle #2

By Debra Wilson, on June 5th, 2010

This is my second “doodle” in Inkscape. I was able to utilize a few more of the basic tools, and had some fun playing with the layers. I need to see if there is a way to select everything on all layers at once though, or using layers will make me crazy.

I also spent a good hour trying to figure out how to rotate a path or object a few degrees, not just 90 or 180 and right as I was about to go open the help files and look in there, I figured it out on accident. Apparently the selection tool, if you double click on an object or path, turns into the rotate tool. I’m very glad to have figured that out as its a rather important tool to be able to use.

Anyway, I should be back tomorrow with something else entirely. Not sure what yet, but I’ll have something.

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First Inkscape Doodle

By Debra Wilson, on June 4th, 2010

I opened up Inkscape and played around a little. The only tool I have the hang of yet is the pen tool- it works exactly the same as in Illustrator. The tool I used to do this doodle is the calligraphy one; I did these lines, then ten minutes later went to add to it, and I can;t seem to duplicate the same line density even though the settings are the same. I’m not sure if it was because my finger pressure was different or what, but I guess I’ll be needing lots of practice with this one.

I also noticed the only web-ready pixel based outputs are PNG or BMP. That’s a little disappointing, but it could be worse. And theoretically (I haven’t opened it yet so I don’t know anything) I can just open and convert it in Gimp to something else.

I’m definitely looking forward to learning these two programs though, and I’m thinking that my first project to practice with will be a tattoo design. I’ve decided I want to get a day of the dead style skull with all the colors and details on my upper left arm, as a 1/4 sleeve. I’m still trying to sort out the details, but I’ve got all the time in the world. I can’t do anything until after I pay off my boyfriend’s birthday present anyway. After that, I can start saving up for it.

That’s something to look forward to. :)

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