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/
Honestly, I made all my shapes, then filled in the colors, then selected the entire drawing and clicked the "x" to remove all the lines at once! Much simpler!!!!! Others, super cool tutorial, many thank yous. :)
I like how you actually say what you're doing for the shortcuts everytime you use them. A lot of people make "beginner" tutorials and zoom through them expecting a beginner to know all of the shortcuts already.
Just started learning Inkscape yesterday and also found your channel yesterday. So happy I did. Some of the very best Inkscape tutorials on RU-vid! My only complaint is that your videos are just a little too quiet (slightly) because after watching one tutorial, I click on another of your videos and then an ad plays really loud because I have my speakers turned up for your video and it always scares me.
Sorry about that. I can't get my microphone to record at a higher volume, and if I increase the volume by editing the audio file it doesn't sound great. I've tried. Maybe when I replace my microphone.
Oh don't worry about it, it's not a big issue :) A slight increase in volume would be nice, but it's fine how it is, especially if that would lead to distortion. Your mic volume is actually so much better than most tutorials. There's a lot of inkscape tutorials that you can barely hear lol.
Thank you for showing us this cool technic. Also I just wanted to update you and thank you once again for the great tutorials for freelance, I managed to get a few jobs including building one website, and really liked doing it.
Absolutely brilliant! thanks a lot Nick. Just did an awesome Churchill photo and made a rookie error of not saving it before Inkscape decided to say no! Never mind it has truly opened my eyes as what can be done and the practice can't hurt. Buzzing with ideas now. 😎
your channel is amazing! I'm used to photoshop but wanted to start doing vector graphics and quickly got frustrated because inkscape is so unused . but your videos are great tutorials and with every one of your videos I am getting more confident at using the program! great work!
so glad you had the tutorials on how to change the theme on inkscape, the original is so outdated! lol. thanks for the great content, i will be revisiting your channel often!
Watched this twice. Can't believe how easy you make it look! I've just downloaded Inkspace and hopefully I'll get my channel art sorted rather sharpish! Thank you :)
You could actually use this as a basis for learning to paint portraits and the nuances of the planes of the face, warm, cold, light, shadow, etc etc. and just how little is really needed to get a good likeness.
I wondered many times why you Ctrl d before any operation and you kinda mentioned it in this video, you are the consumate instructor!!! I know why you Ctrl d now.
It was very easy to start the video over after realizing the stroke could be deleted all at once in the end, but he still showed his mistake. I like that in a youtuber. Goes to show you even really knowledgeable people make stupid mistakes and it doesn't at all mean that they don't know what they're doing.
I've been watching your beginner videos- they are awesome! I'm learning so much. However, I still can't figure out how to get rid of the white lines between the vectors. I've moved the nodes, trying to fill in the gaps, and I've also grouped then duplicated the image. And it looks great in Inkscape, but after I save- the gaps are visible. AH! Is there something I'm missing??
Watching this on the move but I remember seeing a setting somewhere for Inscape to remember the last setting used for any given tool so that it doesn't default back to initial every time you use it.
Great video... already updated my profile pic using the low poly portrait method. Thanks for sharing. I will have a look at your channel to see if there are more such pearls to be found.
Nick, your tutorials are gold. Thank you. I'm having one issue - the 'pick colours from image' tool which you use to fill the polygons doesn't behave the way yours does. Mine does nothing. It seems like it just picks the colour but doesn't fill the polygon at all. Anyone have any ideas?
Haha, it's aliasing like alien, not like a liar. Otherwise another great video, I've been binging on them all since I found one of the logo design ones earlier. Cheers!
If there is a repetitive, fairly simple but time consuming task, there is a good chance somebody automated it already. And yes. There is an extension to reach a similar results with way less effort, the Voronoi/Delaunay extension under generate from path. Machines taking our jobs! ;)
It's not fully automated like bitmap-->lowpoly, but saves a lot of time compared to the method shown in the video.Try it like this: open a new document and create a small circle. copy and paste it around a few times. Make sure that there are no circles at the same position. Then select them all, and run the Delaunay algorithm. If all goes well, then you'll get the triangles between the points. After ungrouping, the result is the triangles separated. Try it with different density and number of dots to see different results. Use this experience to decide where to scatter the dots on a picture you want to convert to low poly. --- What I did it to reach a similar result as in the video is that I imported the picture I wanted to use, put it on one layer below, locked that layer, then dotted the above layer according to the picture and ran the Delaunay extension on the dots. To make the triangles somehow correspond to the shades and shapes on the original picture, try to put the dots where there are color differences. Or just try use smaller areas. After it was done(it can take some time if you have more dots) I moved away the group of triangles to delete the dots. Then moved back the triangle group in position over the original image. After moving them on the same layer and ungrouping the triangles you can colour them with the dropper tool as in the video. I hope it helped. There are really nice tutorials around, search for "low poly inkscape" or "Delaunay inkscape"
David Fabian Thanks a lot, this will speed up the process. Though I quite like the fact that I can make all the shapes myself, if I use this technique and I make a very different shape, it will result in lines coming form that shape. I could delete this unwanted lines, but there goes my time saving. Thanks a lot though, it will help in further projects.
Yeah, it's not perfect for these purposes, but can save a lot of time if you know what to expect and where to put the points. If I have any protruding parts on the image, like a leg of a horse or an extended arm I usually do that separately. Otherwise it will be connected to all over the place like it's filled with spider webs. Also, following the advice as Nick gave in the video: bigger homogeneous areas should be covered with less polygons. But yeah, it will always result in triangles. For me, after some practice and experimenting it really became an easy and quick tool to create low-poly images. I took a photo of my cat and and from shooting the picture until saving the ready lowpoly png image took less than an hour. It's still around the third picture I created like this, so it's far from perfect(the mouth area is definitely needs a different solution) but the next one will be better. goo.gl/photos/t89KNFb1F2tamrWj6
Hey, I love your videos! I have an issue though, when I use the dropper, it fills the stroke by default, not the inside of the shape. Is there a setting I need to change? Thanks!
Great video really helped! One thing I would say however is be careful when you duplicate!! When grouping the item together inkscape doesn't make them one image it just lets you control all individual polygons at the same time. When you are duplicating to remove the white lines you are duplicating every polygon you just drew. Now if you dont have a computer with a really good processer this is going to severally impact your pcs performance. My suggestion is that make sure you have completed the entire picture before fixing the white lines, then only duplicate once. I am yet to figure out a better way of reducing the white lines between the shapes without duplicating. Nick if you have found a better way to do it, it would be great to hear! Great videos, love the tutorials. Keep 'em coming!
Another guy on the comments section here (Andrei B.) had a solution from 4 years ago: "Other option for removing the gaps between shapes. Go to the menu Object->Transform, then in the panel, go to Scale, check Scale proportionally and Apply to each object separately. Select px as unit and start adding 1 pixel and applying. This way you can check visually if it works. You can add more, if the gaps are bigger." I think it makes sense, and is probably better practice than duplicating it if you care about performance, since rather than actually creating a duplicate of each path it's going to transform the paths individually themselves.
Hi Nick. I am wanting to get into Freelancing and I am wondering what an appropriate age is to start. I am currently a preteen and I am wondering if I am a bit to young or not. I would love your advice on when and how to start Free Lancing.
Any age that you can get work is a great age the start. The earlier the better. The only problem you may run into is that people may not take you seriously because of your age. If I were you I would just put my best work out there and let people judge you based on your abilities and see what happens. You may have to do pro bono stuff for friends, family and charities for a year or two first. Good luck!
thanks for the advice, i made an awesome present for my girlfriend. One question though, is there a way to make the stroke lines the same color as the fill color without doing it all individually. thanks again, your awesome
I successfully finished this tutorial a couple of months ago and in going back to do this with another image I realized I had to watch some of the tutorial again. BTW your tutorials are top notch. The second time around I'm not seeing the geometric shape I just created unless I hide layer 1 which would be the original image layer and then I am able to see the shape with the black outline. What did I skip or not enable?
I haven't tried it yet, so I can't say. I would imagine they'd have to be really good illustrations, and you'd have to have hundreds of them uploaded to the site before you start making any kind of decent money.
@@anusha7962 I just read a thread on the Inkscape forums and one of the suggestions was to change the number of threads that Inkscape uses. My computer is pretty good, so I've increased mine from 4 to 6 and that seems to help a little. Still crashes, but maybe not as much. Properties-Rendering-Number of Threads.
Is there a way to select multiple shapes and fill them in with different colors of the picture all at once? I'm doing a portrait for a friend and have MULTIPLE shapes over his face and see it as time-consuming to fill them each on one by one.
