In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to use Inkscape’s Extrude functions and the gradient palettes to create a 3D RSS icon. You’ll need to know how to work with color, fills and strokes – I won’t be going over those basics again here. If you’re brand new to Inkscape, please consider first checking out my Color & Gradients Tutorial for Absolute Beginners, which will show you how to use the Fill & Stroke Manager. more
Everything’s going eco these days, and chances are you’ll have the occasion to make some environmental or organic icons, graphics and logos. I hope to help give you a nice basis for the creation of nature-themed graphics. This tutorial is a bit long, and is for intermediate – advanced Inkscape users. You should be familiar with Inkscape’s color and gradient tools, as well as have some basic knowledge of path / pathfinder tools. You won’t be able to do this without a solid knowledge of Inkscape gradients, so if you need a quick lesson on colors and gradients, try this tutorial first.
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Caterpillars are way adorable, and 3D cartoon caterpillars are twice as way adorable. Happily, they’re fairly easy to make in Inkscape. This tutorial uses the Inkscape interpolate tool, plenty of radial gradients, and a dainty dollop of node editing. The pen tool, some of you may be happy to note, doesn’t appear once in this tutorial, so if you’re not yet familiar with the use of the bezier pen, give this tut a shot.
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If you’re at all familiar with the Adobe Illustrator blend tool, you’ll know you can create neat vector flowers and swirls using Illustrator’s blend tool. Inkscape has a similar tool called “interpolate”, which produces lovely lines by “blending” two separate lines into one flowing shapes. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use the Inkscape interpolate tool to make a vector Buddhist lotus flower.
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