• Software: Inkscape
• Level: Beginner
• Subject: Spider silhouette

Here is a video tutorial – it should be pretty self explanatory. I have tried to use the menu commands as far as possible, even though I use the keyboard shortcuts usually to increase my workflow speed.

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This is a simple video tutorial on illustrating Moon in Inkscape or similar editors like Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw.

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This would be a simple tutorial on creating a vector illustration of Sun in Inkscape or similar vector editors like Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw. There would be a screen-cast video at the end of this post.

Basic Shapes

Start of with basic shapes – a circle and a twelve sided polygon, aligned concentric to each other.

Shape Edit

Edit the outer polygons segment to have a concave curve (curving inwards towards the center).

Flat Colors

Apply flat colors.

Here is the screen cast video.

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This is the second part of the video tutorial – see part 1 if you have not seen it yet.

For a larger image, see devianART entry – Corn Clipart.

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The last video tutorial was on digital painting of an ear of corn. This two part series would be on the same subject, but doing an illustration instead.

The second part would be published tomorrow, so stay tuned.

• Software: GIMP (or Photoshop)
• Level: Intermediate
• Subject: Corn

As with all the digital painting tutorials here at KalaaLog.com, you should be able to reproduce the results in either GIMP, Photoshop or Painter.

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Here is the screen cast on drawing a dog in the profile/side view and giving ti simple coloring.

This is the second and final part on illustrating scythe in Inkscape – continued from part 1.

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.