Articles by Vyoma

• Software: Inkscape (or Adobe Illustrator)
• Level: Intermediate
• Subject: Genie Lamp

By the end of this tutorial, you would be able to create a vector artwork of a Genie Lamp. You should be familiar with the tools of Inkscape or any of the other vector editor you use (like Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw).

Base Shape

Use the ellipse drawing tool and create two of them one below the other and overlapping. Align them so that their centers are exactly above each other. The blue ellipse is the base shape of the main lamp body. The red one would become the stand of the lamp. Create two more ellipses (green) on either side of the red one. Use the subtract operation to chop of this area from the red ellipse to get the base shape.

Use the pen tool to create a roughly trianglular shape on the left (or right - your choice). Note that the tip of the triangle pointing outside has been chopped off and it is actually a four sided polygon (green). Use the node edit tool to curve them as shown above.

Create two more smaller, concentric ellipses and tilt them a bit. Subtract the inner ellipse from the outer.

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• Level: Intermediate
• Subject: Horse Head in profile

This tutorial should get you going on drawing horses - the head specifically.

You should be able to reproduce the results either digitally or using pencil, pen, paper and a good eraser. If you would like to study the results, you can download it at the end of this tutorial.

Basic Shape

First, try to imagine and breakdown the seemingly complicated head of the horse. You will notice that it is sphere for the head, a cylindrical protruding to the muzzle and another much smaller sphere for that area. On the profile view, it becomes circles and a cylinder. The neck too is a cylindar and on profile, it would become a rectangle - but to make it interesting, I twisted it a bit.

With the guide in your minds eye, draw these rough shapes to gain confidence before moving on to actual sketching.

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I wanted to do a colored version of the illustration, Too Old For Halloween.

I grossly under-estimated the amount of effort this would take.

With the amount of detail, and my choice of color palette - added to that the two sources of light, takes up quite a bit of effort to paint.

As you can see, I have approached this from back to front. And on each of those level/layer, I detail them with a fat/large brush to a fine/small brush.  Stay tuned - I will finsih up painting by detailing the two main characters, and perhaps adjusting some color levels.

Too late for Halloween, perhaps. But I really enjoyed working on this illustration.

After doodling with GIMP’s new inking tool, I had this urge to try it out. After some seasonal inspiration, and several concepts, roughs and sketches, I felt pretty confident to do a illustration over them. This was created completely using the Inking Tool of GIMP 2.6 and some use of the upgraded Selection Tool.

Visit the devaintART entry page if you want to try your hand at coloring this (do link back), or if you would like to see a larger image to see the details.

Too Old for Halloween? - Illustration