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Illustrating Chain Links

June 22, 2008 in Tutorials, Vector by Vyoma | 4 comments

Illustrating Chain Links

Software: Inkscape (or Adobe Illustrator)
Level: Intermediate
Subject: Chain Links

Illustrating vector art of chain and chain links is quite fun once you get the hang of it. The most important thing is to get the basic shape right.

Basic Shape

Illustrating Chain Links - Basic Shapes

Getting the basic shape right is very important. Draw as many grid lines to assist you as required. There are basically two shapes you need to draw. One that is parallel to the canvas and one that is perpedicular. The parallel one is composed by subtracting shape 1B from 1A. (In Inkscape use Path > Difference from the menu). See to it that both the shapes are of same height and also that the perpedicular one fits into the hole of the parallel link.

Illustrating Chain Links - Basic Shapes Verify
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Drop Shadows In Inkscape

June 15, 2008 in Tutorials, Vector by Vyoma | 8 comments

Drop Shadows In Inkscape

Software: Inkscape
Level: Beginner
Subject: Drop Shadows

This is quite a simple technique you can use to create drop shadows of objects you have designed in Inkscape.

Drop Shadows of Simple objects

Drop Shadows - 00 - Simple Object

Let us first look at a simple example.

Make a copy of the object (rectangle in this case) and move it few units to the bottom and to the right.

Drop Shadows - 01 - Simple Object

Then, change the color to black or dark gray.
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Illustrating Lady Justitia

May 18, 2008 in Artwork, Tutorials, Vector, Video by Vyoma | 6 comments

Illustrating Vector Art of Lady Justitia

Software: Inkscape (or Adobe Illustrator or Corel DRAW)
Level: Advanced
Subject: Lady Justitia

I got inspired to do this work when Rizky asked how would one do vector art of Lady Justitia.

Lady Justice is a personification of the legal system. She is often depicted as a blindfolded goddess holding a sword and a scale.

Here is a walk-through of my attempt using Inkscape – consisting of a set of images and the screen capture video. You should be able reproduce similar results using other vector editors too.

Concepts

Doing thumbnails and sketches has almost become a regular in my work-flow.

Concept - Rough

After a pretty rough doodling in GIMP, I do a clean sketch in GIMP itself.

Concept - Sketch

Flats

Having a solid base color for each of the parts becomes quite easy later on while adding details. Thus, I take time to create shapes and order them properly in Inkscape. (I import the sketch as a guide for shape construction).

The video is quite long – it is actually a play list of a few of them. You will see how I keep shuffling the order of the sketch, using it as a guide, to create the different shapes.

Details

Lady Justitia - Details - Face
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Illustrating Tomato

May 4, 2008 in Tutorials, Vector by Vyoma | 16 comments

Software: Inkscape
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Subject: Tomatoes

The other tutorial on painting a tomato has become quite popular and I have got quite a handful of request on how the approach would be for illustrating tomatoes. In this post, we will be looking at how to illustrate a tomatoes (or more than one) using a sketching program and Inkscape (or any other vector editors like Adobe Illustrator or Corel DRAW).

Sketch

Illustrating Tomato - Sketch

Draw a sketch of the tomatoes and get it as a image file. You can either sketch it on paper and scan it in, or sketch it using a software. I used GIMP.