Inkscape Flourish

[@cvmcclendon]

This is one of my favorite Inkscape tutorials (and I've watched a TON). I love how well you explain things. I can take the things you show here and use them in so many different designs.

[@mariak2714]

I'm just learning how to use inkscape and the way you explain and show us is amazing! So slow and well explanatory. Thank you!

[@helium73]

these videos are 100 times more valuable than those those 50 dollar books at the bookstore that teach you how to use programs that cost 1000 dollars because Inkscape is free. Plus its so much easier to learn things from videos. I looked online to see if there was a way to vary the line width. And all I found was posts that seemed to indicate it would be a nice feature to add.

[@autumnstar3467]

I remember when i was first learning how to use inkscape and illustrator in 2014. I came across this video and it seem difficult at that time. But now in 2020 doing what is shown in this video is so so easy - Keep drawing and practicing and you’ll get better 💚🤎

[@cherie3000]

i am a graphic designer and used to work with illustrator, indesign, quarkxpress and many more, i am off of work for 6 years now and can not afford the illustrator or any of the others. but this program is great! thanks for the tutorials.

[@TheMRTIMBUK2]

Well its nice to have such a great program for free but its little bit time consuming as compare to illustrator i think in illustrator you can do it way faster and comfortably.

[@Bhuvana2020]

Actually I just figured it out. Initially I was following your instructions and set the shape to triangle. Then I changed it to none. And changed the width of the stroke in fill & stroke. Working perfectly!

[@Cochegrz]

Thanks for your excellent tutorial. I was "afraid" to use Inkscape because I didn't know what kind of program it was. You make it look easy. Thanks again.

[@dmays67]

Great tute. Nice n simple focusing on a hand full of tools and clearly explaining what your doing and why.

[@Usefulgraphicdesigntutorials]

An extremely useful and clearly described video. In addition, there are a number of short cuts. Several 'light bulb' moments. Many thanks, Davina

[@oscargalvez7]

You have just enlightened me! I used to do these shapes with the standard bezier tool. Thanks forever!!

[@crogersdev]

Your English is fine, I understood you perfectly. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us.

[@johnagorman]

Mind blown!! I teach a basics inkscape class on the beizer tool. Mainly to help folks get images ready for vinyl cutting and laser cutting and engraving. I needed a little "flourish" for one of my designs. I learned so much in this video! Several new techniques and ideas. I will share these and of course credit you. Thanks!

[@missyven77]

I LOVE flourishes & swirls! I'm new to Inkscape, so it's nice to know how to make these! Thanks!

[@Lipthink]

Nice tutorial and your flourish style is just what I needed to know for a invitation I am making. Great! Thanks!!

[@TaraLoPresti]

Thanks so much for this tutorial! This is exactly what I wanted to learn. So handy to have a video that explains it with ease.

[@totallyinsaneart3345]

Flourishes are such beautiful designs. You make them look so easy. My project of the day, learn about creating flourish designs.

[@MacheteBushcraftAustralia]

I just wanted to say a very big thank you! you made this very easy for everyone.

[@normopg1]

Thank you for this tutorial... it was extremely helpful... I love how you explain it, so simply... very clear and understandable... please keep them coming... you are an excellent instructor :)

[@SoniyaG_]

Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful tutorial! I can't wait to try this!

[@peyote0]

Wow! I never would have thought of that. Great set of techniques. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

2:08 In Inkscape 1.0, you can still achieve that by direct drawing, or you can add the effect to an existing path using the “Spiro spline” and “Power stroke” path effects.

[@chrishidden6674]

In version 9 the triangle in / out does something different. You'll need draw a triangle shape pointing to the left of the screen, copy it to the clipboard and use shape from clipboard instead. This forces a “pattern along path” effect -- Hope that saves someone a headache.

[@amphitheatre]

thank you! its certainly different in 2017 version. however i find its triangle to the right so you get thicker stems towards the left (that is if you're going from left to right). anyways, thank you.

[@lynphilion1501]

I wish it was the way it was in this. I tried to do it the exact way you did and it wasn't working. So I read the comments that the new versions don't work that way. I wish they did. I like the way it just made the curlys.

[@lynphilion1501]

I really don't understand what you mean chris hidden

[@lynphilion1501]

Actually whatever end you want the skinny end to be on is the way you point the triangle. So if you need the skinny end of the flourish to be on the right then point the triangle to the right copy to clipboard and when you use the bezier pen use from clipboard instead of a triangle. Thanks, Chris your tip helped.

[@lynphilion1501]

Also the skinny you make the triangle the more realistic the vine looks.

[@kiranshashiny]

Nice tutorial. Enjoyed watching it -It was magical to see you craft that piece of art !

[@centsiblecooking]

You are really good at manipulating the nodes, very impressive! I learned a ton from this video, including things I had seen other tutorials for and was unable to figure out. BTW, that was magical how you made that leaf appear from the end of the spiro, I had no idea what you were going to do and suddenly a perfect leaf shape pops out!! Thanks so much for sharing, I hope you are able to share more in the future.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

5:59 The one you’ve got enabled is “Even/Odd” fill. The one you want is called “Nonzero Winding Number” fill. The rule for deciding whether an area is to be filled is to draw a line from within that area out to infinity in any direction, and see how many times it crosses the edge of the shape (aka the “winding number”). For even/odd fill, the area is filled if the line crosses an odd number of edges, left empty if the number is even. For the nonzero winding number rule, the area is filled if the line crosses any edges at all.

[@ysel6287]

Thank you for this. Also agree with a previous comment - a beautiful voice, enviable enunciation!

[@TheChazk]

Most enjoyable tutorial and I learned a lot, thank you.

[@NoellesFavorites85]

This one of the best tutorials I have ever seen on youtube! I wish more tutorials for blender wear like this, Thanks so much. BTW love the accent, it helped me pay better attention. Keep the great tutorials ^_~

[@SchattenBestie]

Nice tutorial. You obviously know what you are doing. I hope there are more to come...

[@mboglarka]

Thank you thank you thank you! :) I'm trying to learn Inkscape and this tutorial helped the most so far! :)

[@tedotedotedo]

Brilliant, thanks very much for such a lovely clear tutorial.

[@JustinEames]

Ah...that makes sense. Always seems so obvious once the question is answered! Thanks for the reply.

[@lightning4201]

Very nice video. Thanks man. Keep up the great work!

[@phyllisarttoart9730]

Can't afford "Illustrator". Just discovered "Inkscape" Thank you for this tutorial.

[@samanthazygowicz1288]

Ohmylanta THANK YOU! I have been trying to make frames for monogrames and this video helped me so much!

[@zabaziomalka]

Thanks guy. I go to graphic school, so it's really helpful. ;)

[@oxalorg]

Pretty sweet ways to use the bezier tool! Thanks a lot man :)

[@savedby_gracethrough_faith]

When I right click all I get is a jagged hair line. How do I get a thicker smoother line as when I do what you said, it didn't work?

[@savedby_gracethrough_faith]

Thank you.

[@pspstyle1]

Thank you. Knowledge increased very much. I will refer to this.

[@diandjohn4]

Thanks heaps! Really really helpful and clear presentation.

[@chuctanundaspiderbone5407]

Thanks, this is a great tutorial for getting to know the bezier tool.

[@ungleichklang]

fabulous - this is hell of an excellent tutorial - thanks

[@lisanielsen100]

That looks great. Im getting the kids to do one after school!

[@tmw3s]

within the first minute this became useful. ty.

[@humbyrds777]

Thanks for sharing! Really wonderful tutorial.

[@iriscapes]

Tip: You can copy a horizontal leaf to the clipboard; and then, in the Bézier menú, set a high Smoothing and select the Shape "From clipboard" Result: You can easily draw leaves with the Bézier tool.

[@theguyver4765]

Really useful thanks very much. Do you have videos abut this?

[@limsk3797]

thanks, it was so easy to follow, i learn alot from this tutorial

[@jacobdavid]

Good video tutorial. Thank you for sharing.

[@Tree_Comm]

thanks brother! got me out of this swirl chamber i was stuck in from days :)

[@areacode777]

Thank you, your video was really helpful and awe inspiring.

[@crickmart4]

I am really new to this but I loved this video and it turned out just perfect! Thank you so much!

[@legion2k988]

Been looking for that 'tool' or technique for a while. Thank you! lol

[@LMmccallL57]

Very nice! Very helpful! Thanks for sharing.

[@dignifieddonut]

It doesn't allow me to expand the width of the line help??

[@AccioPadfoot12]

by doing what? clicking on the ball does nothing. Right clicking on it brings up a menu but width changing is not on it.

[@lidahnaga2012]

@Tom Debridge It's work, thanks dude... just hold click and drag that point

[@rainnnnn28]

I love this! Thank you so much :) I subscribed. I'm your 1000th follower!

[@manuelmartin6217]

got problems with the width for to path of the main stem. i can't make it thicker.

[@eightfold3195]

Manuel Martin same here :P

[@yutu49]

+Manuel Martin 11/3/2015: same problem. Is there now a bug with this feature?

[@shmoggo]

Excellent Inkscape tutorial, thanks.

[@cherietrowler3982]

Thank you so much for the video.. I love these designs, I am thinking I can do this.. If you are interested, here is some useful criticism for those of us who learn visually. That would be to show us the actual buttons to push for the effects and then flash onscreen at the bottom out of the way the shortcut used for the effect. But it is ok if you don't want to do that.. I will survive. :) Thank you so much for taking the time to help us folks out here that just need some help.. :) I am in love with this program.

[@haroldhoward5528]

which version are u useing ver 9,1 path effects are different . can u help

[@TheMRTIMBUK2]

OMG making that in Adobe illustrator is so easy, I don't know, may be i am feeling easy but pen tool is really awesome for this kind of thing in illustrator.

[@Nimbleful]

You've really opened my eyes to some tools I didn't know existed! Thank you! :)

[@InkThisScape]

Once you open the 'Path Effect Editor' there should be two things in the 'Effect list' - 'Spiro Spline' and 'Pattern Along Path'. Make sure that the 'Pattern Along Path' is highlighted then the options should be visible in the 'Current Effect' box just below it.

[@florencefred1480]

Thanks, I've learned a lot. I'm going to try this by myself

[@jeffbeck6501]

I loved it when you drew the leaf, and said, "and there ya go".

[@jamiemarie2003]

That was awesome!!!

[@c.d3002]

Great tutorial! I really need to master using such tools to create patterns and such and things like this help. I have a question: Around 5:53, you use a short-cut that I hear as "Ctrl-Shift-N-F" to open all of the option panels(which is exactly what I want to happen). When I use this short-cut, it either opens the layer panel or it opens a new document with the stroke panel open. And I doing this wrong? If not can you tell me where the menu option is(non-short-cut version)?

[@whipmanx3]

Impressive, I'm gonna try these techniques. thank you :)

[@mixermantim]

Thank you for teaching and speaking in your video

[@BigPiePublishing]

This is excellent and very helpful. Do you ever make damask patterns like you would see in an antique wallpaper? I'd love to see a tutorial for that.

[@hamiltonpianos]

Very nice! I'd like to know how you did the two-part main stem in the example picture...

[@jaketomberlin8916]

Hello Inkthisscape, I'm trying to shape a perfect outline for a 3" fishing lure. The outline itself is crucial to how the lure will perform in the water, and I'm wasting paper and lead trying to get it just right. Is there a certain program you would recommend for this? There are basically no straight lines, just alot of subtle curves.

[@arturbuchhorn]

What you did not show is how you created the "light effect" by having a path run through the main branch. Did you just duplicate the main branch, made the duplicate thinner and moved it around?

[@funkyjohnhuie]

I agree, I don't know what this is as well. It's like the vector line going through?

[@MohammedAli-vo8hq]

this is awesome and simple to do thanks!

[@TuttoHobby]

Very good job!! Compliments!!

[@petrfrolich8734]

Thank you for tutorial. 3:11 you showing how to thicken the line, my is not getting thick after changing the value, any idea why? Thank you

[@HobbitGaming]

Really nice, well explained. Subbed. ~Hobbit

[@levitate64]

brilliant straightforward tutorial

[@Robbie46S]

Wes this was fantastic thank you very much.

[@beadtobead]

Thanks for an awesome tutorial. Which version of inkscape are you using? I downloaded .48 and I don't seem to have the 'handles' when I use the bezier.

[@JustinEames]

Great video. I don't think I've seen this question in the comment yet. On the "main stem," how did you get the empty space that seems to cut the stem in half? Is that an effect applied to one path, or did you simply create an exact copy and move it along side? Thanks

[@ChihayaAlMuharbi]

Thank you very much >< my teacher ^^ Because I have a lot of ideas to do ti ^^

[@rlocatellidigital]

In the right hands, a powerful software.

[@peterplantec7911]

This was very helpful. Thank you.

[@majorwedgie6698]

I will subscribe when you make more videos. Love the quality, but lacks quantity. Thank-you.

[@johnvdl]

Great tutorial, really helpfull! Thanks!!!

[@Sharricb]

Great tut Wes..you speak like me!!! First time someone has got the pronunciation of bezier correct> You got to be South African!! ;-)

[@paulinelucero8151]

Love your video. Question; when I print out my design it comes out blurry. What am I doing wrong? Thank you so much for your help and for putting this video together.

[@m3ile0hig3h]

Resolution of the document is probably too low. Try 300 dpi

[@mcalli756]

Great tutorial. I picked up a few tips.

[@sspabu]

Amazing work! Thank you so much!

[@theguyver4765]

Just wonderful

[@joabefernandes7286]

Great tutorial! :D

[@JohnOShaughnessy]

this tutorial is very interesting..... I've always been using Adobe Illustrator right up to CS6. Recently, I've started using Inkscape as well to help some Asian students get a start. I am surprised that Inkscape is so good; way beyond my expectations. BTW I had no trouble understanding your English but there is a problem with either your sound card or the microphone - lots of popping in the background.

[@PieroSavastano]

you good, man.

[@kamilSo]

Great tutorial, thanks

[@johnvp3670]

So Nice Man...Thank You !!

[@amoose136]

Bezier is pronounced like Peltier: "bez-E-yay" in IPA: be'zje (b as in "about" + e as in "hey" and the stress the last sounds: z as in "zeal" + y as in "yet" + e as in "hey")

[@Bhuvana2020]

Thanks for a great video! How do you make the curves have the same width? I just need to do a wavy line. I need for it to be of equal width start to finish. Thanks.

[@ChrisRozwod]

I love that you say what the shortcut is. That's really helpful.

[@haraldo007]

Good job - nice tut.

[@p07a]

This is amazing.. Thank you