The Complete Guide To Line Drawing In Inkscape

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In this tutorial we'll be going over everything you need to know about drawing lines in Inkscape, whether it be straight lines, curved lines, or a combination of both. For this we will explore some of the tool settings for the Pencil ("Draw Freehand Lines tool") and the Pen ("Bezier Pen").
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:09 Draw straight lines
01:48 Draw freehand lines
02:23 Draw curved lines (Spiro)
03:41 Draw curved lines (BSpline)
04:36 Use the Bezier Pen to draw straight lines
06:07 Use The Bezier Pen to draw curved lines
07:21 Draw straight and curved lines
08:06 Additional settings
09:48 Learn More

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4 июн 2024

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@JC-ig4xy День назад

You have the best inkscape videos!

@kenyenmusic7548 11 месяцев назад

THANK YOU SO MUUUUUCH man i never thought it would be so hard to find a good tutorial on how to trace things perfectly.

@nhenghali1916 11 месяцев назад

I thought I was already very familiar with Inkscape (thanks in large parts to many of your videos), but a video like this is something I wish I had seen years ago. Thanks!

@NYProductions 11 месяцев назад

same thought

@aeroegnr 11 месяцев назад

Been using inkscape for a while and didn't know about these, thank you!

@mikeysalais1313 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for all your hard work. I always learn something.

@publiogidoni5724 11 месяцев назад

You make my inkscape so much easier to deal with the fact that if I cant remember what does what because of one million things going on in my head I look up your vids. Thank you so much for all of your time I am beyond appreciative.

@naomih4716 11 месяцев назад

Just what I needed as a beginner. Thank you!

@saskiasia 10 месяцев назад

Your recent tutorials are such a great addition to your Master Course! Thank you! If you ever need any suggestions, I would love some simple (or advanced) Halloween and/or Christmas objects, shapes etc., how they're made in Inkscape. Those seasons are coming and those themes are very popular. Thx again!

@jjseabra2 8 месяцев назад

Great video, saved it for future reference. Explained exactly what I was looking for in an easy to understand way.

@muhammedfarispk1687 11 месяцев назад

Hey Nick, You have a great skill of conveying the content to the audience. Really love it.❤

@JoseBYOB 11 месяцев назад

I always manage to learn something new with these videos.

@saerdtuner 7 месяцев назад

thank you so much for this tutorial, this is so clear and direct, best stuff

@altrogeruvah 11 месяцев назад

Great tutorial as always, Nick!

@alexhetherington8028 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for these amazing tutorials

@mrerrol69 11 месяцев назад

this tutorial is beautiful...I love it

@alcg3981 11 месяцев назад

I found your channel when looking for GIMP advice. Some of the tools on Inkscape and Photoshop resemble those used by GIMP. I'm not a pro but as an ex Graphic Designer in the 70s - mid-80s when computers were just beginning to assist us, I keep wanting to flex my muscles so to speak😅! I like your teaching style.

@wallacesousuke1433 Месяц назад

Good gosh I knew Inkscape was good but damn, it's way more powerful than I could've ever imagined!

@mars-cs4uk 6 месяцев назад

You're a very good teacher and I learned a lot. Thanks. Subscribed and book marked. Also, please make a video about how to set the colors to fill, font colors etc. It's confusing. I just started learning few days back and tons of options are these to explore. It's really fun.

@martinaplackova6191 11 месяцев назад

Thank you! I need this. 😇

@dingolovethrob Месяц назад

succinct and superb tutorial.

@chuckt.9122 5 месяцев назад

Wow you saved me from an Adobe subscription! I’m so glad I ran into your channel 💯🔥

@GustAvo-qy9xk 7 дней назад

Thank you!!!

@rahilarious 11 месяцев назад

Love your vids. Keep it up

@PaulG.x 9 месяцев назад

Excellent video! In GIMP I created .png of my signature with a clear background for superimposing into documents. I'm going to repeat that in Inkscape to achieve a better result.

@priyanthisilva1934 9 месяцев назад

Thank you.

@parigim 10 месяцев назад

Great video. Thank you. Basic skills explained so well anticipating the difficulties of beginners. One question I have is when I replicate the same line in Inkscape 1.2, it shows too many nodes which makes it clumsy to handle. When you draw you get only a few nodes. Is there any config setting to achieve that?

@devinhaynes8664 11 месяцев назад

Great tutorial as always. At some point you should do a series where you take a famous logo and show how you could create it in Inkscape

@francootaola9172 11 месяцев назад

Nick, I saw in a video of adobe's soft that the person recommended to whenever you can when doing curved lines place the nodes in a form that the handles of it are or vertical or horizontal that makes it more natural. What do you thing in that regarding?

@The_Penguin_City 10 месяцев назад

En el manejo de líneas puedes variar el tipo de nodo para mejor control.

@Glorious_Kim_Jong_Un 11 месяцев назад

I just searched this and your video up. Exactly what I was looking for, thanks! Now wheres my like.

@aseeltariq8119 8 месяцев назад

I’m I the only one who have this problem when I draw something it supposed to look like this ⭕️ right? You can choose to fill it with a color or not,the problem is when I draw something it looks like this 🔴 already filled with a color do you know how do I solve this problem ?

@MDK-hj2sc 2 месяца назад

at the bottom left where it says fill above you will see small drawings, press on the small drawing with the Cross

@geoffphil 11 месяцев назад

I learned quite a lot from this video thanks Nick. I still struggle with the Bezier pen drawing curves in standard mode, or changing to/from corner nodes/smooth nodes (ctrl L, ctrl U?). Will try spline method. Can a spline curve be converted to a conventional node/gradient curve? Object to path?

@LogosByNick 11 месяцев назад

Yes, so can spiro paths. Just select it once you're done and go to Path > Object To Path

@tranthithaovy5406 7 месяцев назад

It helped me 😢😢😢😢😢

@excellinkus 5 месяцев назад

Nick, which version of Inkscape are you using in this tutorial? I'm using version I can't find the BSpline option.

@Amipotsophspond 9 месяцев назад

so something with the draw curved lines it really changes a lot with "smoothing" section set to 60 vs set to 8 sometimes professionals forget all the many tweaked settings that they set up.

@geckosonic 9 месяцев назад

Do you have a video on how to cut lines that are closed? I can't seem to make anything work. Thanks

@jakemorden8544 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the great content. Is there a solution for CMYK mode? I'm new to inkscape I'm I'm using it to design book covers, in general the designs I make using inkscape will ne printed like tshirts, card posters, mugs, wall arts and CMYK is required.

@LogosByNick 11 месяцев назад

Unfortunately no. Lack of CMYK is one of Inkscape's downsides.

@jakemorden8544 11 месяцев назад

@@LogosByNick so what's the solution? I don't want to use another program to correct the colours. That's to much work

@LogosByNick 11 месяцев назад

@@jakemorden8544 There are workarounds like saving as PDF and then opening it with Scribus and converting to CMYK. You can also export as a rasterized file and then convert the rasterized file using Krita. I have a couple of videos showing how to do this if you want to search my channel for "cmyk", they may be a bit dated but should be relevant still.

@jakemorden8544 11 месяцев назад

@@LogosByNick thanks, I was trying to avoid this extra work, but it seems there's no way.

@mistias9813 4 месяца назад

How are you erasing your drawing. What button or key are you using? New to Inkscape.

@isanaluki4806 5 месяцев назад

is there way to stylize the line to become like pencil line ?

@tjbrooks_me 4 месяца назад

How does one cut the end bits of a straight line?? I have a rectangle and then a line with 5 px width bisecting it at an angle so that it goes corder to corner. However, the ends of the line are scare and hang over the outside of the original rectangle so that it looks like there's two triangles on either edge of the main rectangle on the corners. I want those removed so that it is only the 5 px thick line over the main rectangle and no bleeding edges... Hope that was a clear question but figuring this out is driving me insane...

@collwyr 8 месяцев назад

has something changed drastically in the 2 months this video was made?, I just downloaded the program 10 minutes ago and it's become impossible to draw a straight line, it's just invisible until I had a third point, in that case it just connects the three corners (from the two lines) together to make a 2D shape. what the heck am I missing here? I've changed no settings, everything is default from installation.

@LuxuriantCarrot 8 месяцев назад

I figured it out. When the pencil is selected, in the top right, there will be two bits of text: Fill: (none) and Stroke: (none). Click "Stroke" and it will open settings. Within the pencil settings, change the "Style of new objects" from "Last used style" to "This tool's own style". Close out and it should work. Really strange that this isnt the default.

@gazoinksboo 8 месяцев назад

@@LuxuriantCarrot thanks for this!!

@LuxuriantCarrot 8 месяцев назад

@@gazoinksboo Just to add on: This might mess up changing colours in the future, and you might have to set it back to last used. You'll figure it out once you try to draw something twice and it doesn't use the same style

@Narrativenow 4 месяца назад

than you man @@LuxuriantCarrot

@WebCatTV 9 месяцев назад

Can you use a stylus with Inkscape???

@_Praanaa_ Месяц назад

the lines i draw forms a semi circle,not able to explain the issue with the right words but hope you understand, how do i correct it

@cattaraugustonawanda4426 4 месяца назад

Nice video BUT I tried drawing lines and as soon as a finish a line the line disappears and a rectangle of dashed lines appears. What am I doing wrong?

@Blueman9010 2 месяца назад

Why when i use my pen tool and connect my nodes it fills up in side?

@brain_respect_and_freedom 11 месяцев назад

👍

@The_Penguin_City 10 месяцев назад

Parallel or orthogonal?

@issolomissolom3589 11 месяцев назад

Silly question though when to use the pencil and when to use bezier 😅

@LogosByNick 11 месяцев назад

Pencil is good for freehand drawing. The Bezier Pen is better for tracing and creating precise line placements.

@bg307 11 месяцев назад

How can I change my inkscape to look simple like in this video,?

@LogosByNick 11 месяцев назад

Go to View and enable the Wide Screen option

@QuadrellEvans 10 месяцев назад

Sooo mine is not working correctly I did what you said at 42secs and it just goes blank. Do you have any suggestions? Any would be much appreciated

@simouric4906 2 месяца назад

Same problem here

@eitantal726 3 месяца назад

Lifetime access for one-time pay, eh? Sold!

@isabellefischer5145 9 месяцев назад

I'm very frustrated. 53 Seconds in the video, I've selected the pencil too, the Bezier path tool, and drawn a line, but I can't see it. I've tried to find out how to draw it in a different color, or maybe it's because the stroke and the fill aren't defined, but I can't figure out how to do that. Which one of your videos could help me to set things up so I can follow this one?

@isabellefischer5145 9 месяцев назад

Ok. Now I did it but have no clue how. I'm a beginner with Inkscape, but I know Adobe Photoshop Elements very well, and I'm passable with AutoCAD. So I'm not totally ignorant...

@Narrativenow 4 месяца назад

same problem help me

@simouric4906 2 месяца назад

Same problem here @@Narrativenow

@paulkenjopedraza4437 6 месяцев назад

why is my pencil tool making shapes instead of lines help

@norabodonyi5175 11 месяцев назад

In my Inkscape the nodes have become very large, they cover the line itself. How can I reduce their size?

@LogosByNick 11 месяцев назад

Open the Preferences menu (Control + Shift + P) click on Interface and there is a setting for changing the node size. I just uploaded a video on it last week if you want to check that out.

@norabodonyi5175 11 месяцев назад

@@LogosByNick Thank you, succeeded!