If you want to learn more about how Inkscape works, I have a 50+ part video series where I explain all of the tools and features in Inkscape and demonstrate how they work. Here's the link if interested: logosbynick.com/inkscape/
I guess im asking randomly but does any of you know of a way to get back into an Instagram account? I stupidly forgot the login password. I would appreciate any tricks you can give me!
@Simon Aaron thanks for your reply. I got to the site through google and im in the hacking process atm. Takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
You are a great tutor! I am a Front End developer and lately taken interest in UI design, I just watched this for the first time, and couldnt believe how simple and clear you made what appear to be quite a complicated task. You inspire me. I am in awe. Thanks!
ALL your tutorials are amazing Nick. My life is financially transforming for better each year since 2013. I owe you and Inkscape Development from 0.48 to 0.92 Team a lot. :-)
Thanks Nick! I'm learning inkscape, and your tutorials are really helpful. After following through, I was astonished that I could create such a cool logo like this.
Keeping the circles in the golden proportions doesn't necessarily mean that the composition of your bird is golden ratio based. You ought to keep distances fixed, determining them using your golden ratio proportioned objects. So if you're placing two circles (to form the bird's body and beak), you'd mostly use a smaller circle from your calculations template, to determine the placement and distance between the two circles. It's a bit hard to explain, I just mean that not only the size of the circles matters when you're trying to from a golden ratio based composition, also the positioning of your objects, relative to each other and the composition they're in.
Hi, Nick ! Amazing tutorial! I only have one doubt about, why didn't we create these golden ratio rectangles directly with borders, instead of first creating borderless rectangles, and then switching to borders at the end.
hey there! thanks so much for your video! helped a ton! however when i followed along and got to the finish i noticed there was still the white gap between my shapes once i deleted the stroke. how do i avoid this problem?
I have been helped so much by your tutorials. They are excellent and help beginners like me get a handle on Inkscape. Do you ever make your completed files available online for download? Or even just your 'Golden Ratio' grid?
I recently discovered after quite a while playing with Inkscape, the joy of holding down the alt key and drawing a line through the shapes I want to select instead of shift clicking on each of them. Changed my life.
I tried this too, but for some reason after division, inkscape puts thousands of nodes on each shape. If I use simplify, then it distorts some of them so they dont touch.. Any help please? EDIT: and problem is that because of amount of the nodes it takes a few seconds for my PC to select them
Hello saw the IA tutorial also just this morning :D and thought how could do it with Inkscape. What possible by other can better out. What you must change by a Logo that it fit better in golden ration. I mean from design on paper to golden ratio on on computer. :)
Hi NIck, congrats to you for this amazin RU-vid Channel. I would like to suggest an adaptation: instead of starting with two squares, start with a golden ratio rectangle: one side of 100px, and the other 100px * 1.618 (161.80px). Then proceed with squares where you will always paste the height of the previous resulting rectangle. With this the golden ratio will always be maintained.
@@-B-B Not quite (but it is wronf). His first ratio is 2:1; the second is 3:2, then 5:3, 8:5 and so on (fibonacci numbers). It approaches the golden ratio eventually. An even simpler way to achieve what he wants, however: Draw a circle with any size, then duplicate and resize it by typing (current size)*1.618 every time.
@@mrebholz Depends on what you're going for. The first few steps are far from the golden ratio (1:1, 2:1, 3:2, 3:5). They're Fibonacci numbers. After a few steps it's good enough, but if you compare squares 5 and 6 to 10 and 11, they'd be a bit off. If you want _the_ golden ratio just memorize 1.618 just like pi is 3.14, it's good enough. In the end it's just a tool; if you keep everything to a same ratio like 1.5 you'll have a grid that's just as scientific as making it with Fibonacci or a magical "perfect number".
Path-division doen´t work well on my computer. It does not get every single area of interteccion as it is supposed to get. It splits the bottom rectangle in some of the portions, but not all of them, like shown here. 🤔I couldn't finish this tutorial. Anyone else with this same issue?
Thank you To apply the Golden Ratio quickly follow the steps: 1 Draw & select the Object 2 Go to Menu bar > Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform 3 Scale 161.8% horizontal and vertical 4 Type the number of copies you need
Quality tutorials and very useful, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, I promise to buy your e-book, you really read all the comments thanks for that
I keep trying to do this but my squares are not lining up perfectly like yours, I think there is some kind of setting that is not right on mine! This is frustrating
For whatever reason, when I Paste Height to make the larger square it is coming up just a little bit short and wont match the size of the previous squares. Does anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.
Hi Nick Thanks for the tutorial When I finish the design a white stripe remains in place where the stroke was How can I get rid of it? Really annoying. Thanks
I have to say, I'm a Linux guy and use Inkscape & the Gimp all the time ... your tutorials have really opened my eyes as to what is possible using both programs and your explanations/teaching method is first class. Love your tutorials ... love this video ... please keep doing what you do ...
Hey Nick, please answer this question. Whenever I use the division tool, for some reason my pieces of the bird don't come out as clean as yours they usually get defected like one piece would be connected to the other may I please know what am I doing wrong, Is it because sometimes I don't use snapping while positioning the circles
Nick Fantastic I have repeated this over about 5 times and I did it. WOW, what a feeling of accomplishment. I love this most of all, can you do another one based on the Golden Ration like this? Please
Hello Nick. It's very nice to see your tutorials. I follow this one step by step but didn´t have the same results. Some of the circles disappear when I made the clicked on the division bottom, as the eye of the bird and the lower part of the body, as well as the peak, was fusioned with another little down peace.
When setting up the golden ratio grid, I copy the squares, then duplicate a smaller square, then hit Edit --> Paste Size --> Paste Height, all it does is make my square into a rectangle that is taller. Granted, I *might* be working with a different version of Inkscape? I just downloaded and installed mine this past week.
Hiya Hamza. I looked into this a little more. Above Nick has constructed something called a Fibonacci grid and placed circles inside each rectangle. The golden ratio can be expressed as 1:1.61. What this means is that if, say, you have a rectangle with one side at say, 10cm, and the second side at 16.1cm then the rectangle has sides in the golden ratio and is known as a Golden Rectangle. This article - www.creativebloq.com/design/designers-guide-golden-ratio-12121546 - shows how to construct a golden rectangle on the second page and shows the construction of a Fibonacci grid on the first page. We can look at what's happening to the diameter of those circles as we progress through the grid, comparing the ratio of the one we have just created with the last one created previously. The first two circles, the two smallest ones, are equal size and therefore have diameters in the ratio of 1:1. The third circle has a diameter twice the size of either of the first two and so their diameters are in the ratio 1:2. The ratio of the third and fourth circles' diameters in the grid is 2:3 - or 1:1.5. The ratio of the fourth and fifth diameters is 3:5 - or 1:1.66. The ratio of the fifth and sixth circles' diameters is 5:8 or 1:1.6. Continuing on, constructing more rectangles and more circles, the next circle would have a ratio of 1:1.62 to the previous largest, the one after that would arrive at a ratio of 1:1.61 which is the golden ratio. So initially the circles aren't in the golden ratio at all, but as they progress up in size, they come closer to that ratio. The rule of thirds is a composition rule - many photographers use it to compose photographs. The rule of thirds says divide up the viewpoint into thirds horizontally and vertically and place points of interest on these intersecting lines to create a pleasing composition - be it a web page, photograph, or piece of artwork. So I'm now going to say Nick's demo approximates to the golden ratio. To be the golden ratio he would have had to use larger circles only and then scaled the image down while maintaining proportions. Or used circles with *all* the diameters in the golden ratio. Might be an interesting exercise to work that one through!
I really enjoy your work, but you did make a mistake here. You used a ratio of 2, not the golden ratio of 1.618. I don't know who is copying who, but this same mistake is in numerous other golden ratio tutorials.
Your tutorials have really helped me. I am into doing tracing and some shading now, and thanks to you I'm getting a good feel for using Inkscape! Thanks : )
Thank you so much Nick! I studied Chemical Engineering but I've always been interested in graphic design and I do your tutorials as a way of getting closer to something I really love doing and I'm learning a lot in the process. Keep up the great job!!
Do you know if you put the golden ratio back on the bird, if it would fit the golden ratio? Just cuz I love the design, but it’ll be a waste if you did all that and ruined the ratio.
In general I'm super skeptical about the claim that the golden ratio is a magical proportion that produces deeply harmonious design; I really think it's designer superstition most of the time. Certainly, many of the claims for it's usage in historical design are exaggerated or flatly made up. But even so, the mathematical pedant in me has to point out that none of the circles you use here fit the golden ratio. The closest you get is the 8:5 pairing between the largest circles (unsurprising, since the Fibonacci sequence approximates the golden ratio better as it gets larger), but even then that's only 1.6, not the supposedly mystical value of 1.618. The smallest two have a ratio of 2:1. If the supposedly magical harmony of the golden ratio can be reasonably represented by ratios as large as 2 and as small as 1.5 (3:2) one does have to wonder if it's itself that's so special...
Nick, I'm in Australia and went to purchase your Inkscape lifetime academy coarse and the 'make payment' button wouldn't highlight to accept payment by PayPal or credit card. Please offer a solution.
Thank you! I was struggling so hard with vectors in inkscape, I didn't get that to color the other node you had to select it on the drawing, not in the menu.
I have been trying over and over to perform the path division but I cannot seem to achieve the seperation. Anybody have a clue? (PS I got the latest version of Gimp so shouldn't be an update problem)
Is it possible to make a grid and scale the grid without affecting the thickness of the lines in the grid? For instance, I want to make a grid with all the lines 1px thick and then adjust the height and width of the grid while maintaining the 1px thickness of all the lines. Is it possible?
I did it as you did but when I moved the finished grouped bird the gradient did not sticked with it like it in another layer can I anyone tell me what's the problem ?
Having a problem. If I take a 200 px square duplicate it and snap it to the side, select both squares, it becomes 398 px wide. Yes I have a 2 px line. When I paste that width to the next square I get a 396.020 square. Yours appear to be the size of the first 2 which would be 398. I am getting the exact same results on .92 in Windows and 1.0 beta 2 on Mac. Can you tell me what I might be doing wrong? Thanks for your great work.
So this is 6 months old when I write this, and I should hope you figured out your problem by now, but I'm going to comment for anyone else that swings by. The sizing dialog includes the size of the stroke, so if you just enter a number on a shape with a stroke it will inset it by half the stroke width on each side. However, if you snap two shapes together they meet up right at the nodes that make up the shape, meaning in the middle of the stroke not the edge. I don't know if I'd call this a bug, more of a quirk, but if you want to be super accurate just color the shapes in and turn the strokes off, then you can size them perfectly and the nodes will be right on the lines where you intend them.
Wow! two days ago I was trying to look up for an Inkscape tutorial about Golden Ratio and I was even wondering if you do apply the concept in your previous tutorials. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'm very surprised by this tutorial. :)
Hey I finally figure it out how to make a decent logo on Inkscape but now my problem is how or more can I upload it like on YT and put my logo I created? Because I've tried to upload but it always says that it can't upload this.
The one with the circles would be great for either a graphic design logo or one for some kind of mathematical/scientific one because of the resemblance to DaVinci’s or really any Renaissance polymath’s art.
It was very difficult for me to take Apart different parts of the circle, I was disappointed by Inkscape that it has no shade builder tool as Illustrator has, but after your video, my problem is solved... thumbs up to Inkscape... thank u very much.
Amazing work...I wonder why it's called Golden Ratio? I've seen lots of videos about this and all seem hard, I definitely agree that this works best when you have an idea about the object to be drawn. Thank you Nick.
Lost me at paste size and height. I don't know what you're doing here, I can't use the same application. I'm banging my head against the desk trying to understand this
After he drew a box to select all of the objects. He used Ctrl + C keyboard shortcut to copy the dimensional values of ALL the selected objects (added together). And when he pasted the height value Inkscape used the combined numeric pixel value of all the previously selected objects to adjust the height of the new object.
Thanks for the tutorial. I have installed the latest Inkscape and GIMP and enjoyed the tutorial and made the same logo. I have developed self confidence in logo designing. I find Inkscape and GIMP. more exciting with new features than photoshop. However, there is more to discover in these softwares.
