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I started out to do an illustration of a scythe – the grip reaper’s (or personified death’s) iconic weapon.
To do this illustration, I did a bit of study in GIMP.
Then, I opened up Inkscape and started creating the vector shapes.
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A screen cast on illustrating a simple folder icon in Inskcape.
This would be a cursory look at an approach to illustrating a sword. Remember that there are many types of swords, and hence, there are many ways you can approach its illustration.
Draw a long rectangle, and then covert the object to path. (Path > Object to Path). After that, use the node edit tool. In Inkscape, you may need to delete the duplicated nodes at the corner. After that, bisect all the sides, so that you have eight nodes instead of four.
Delete off the bottom corners, and move the two mid nodes of the (earlier) vertical line further down towards the tip. You can leave it at this or make if more interesting by adding some more detail to the shape.
Curve the vertical lines inwards. Next, create a perfect square, and rotate it by 45 degrees.
Convert the square object to a path, and use the node edit tool to pull down the bottom corner node.
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In this tutorial, you will look at the process of creating a vector illustration of grapes. Drawing grapes is quite easy – with all the oval shapes put together. Applying color renders on the other hand can become a bit tedious, and it helps to keep the color palette organized.
Try drawing the grapes bunch in GIMP (or Adobe Photoshop) and get the general idea of the color palette with respect to the light source. Import it into your vector editor of choice (Inkscape or Illustrator).
You can download the above color study if you want: Grapes – Study (PNG format)
Reduce the opacity of the imported image to around 40% to 50% and use a polygon tool and mark out all the outline key points.
Using the node edit tool ( [F2] in Inkscape), shape the polygon tool exactly around the grapes bunch using the underlying image as a guide.
Draw another shape outlining all the inner shapes of the grape fruit. I drew them one by one using polygon tool and then performed a Union operation on them. It is show as a red line above but the color is not important as we will be making the stroke width zero after we apply the colors we want.
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