Inkscape for Beginners: Vector Abstract Background Tutorial

Similar to my low poly portrait tutorial, only using a quicker method more suitable for this sort of design. This will also be an introduction for the Mesh Gradient tool.
This tutorial is for Inkscape version 0.92 and is intended to teach beginners how to use the software. Inkscape is a great free alternative to Illustrator and Corel Draw.
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[@OnPoin1]

8:56 after you colored the first triangle you can just use the "Tab" Key to toggle between the triangles so you don't need to switch the tools every time.

[@LogosByNick]

Awesome, great idea. Pinned.

[@blinkerplease1936]

Fantastic! I am adding this to my notes as well. Thank You

[@sponsoredmessage201]

Also, maybe it's just me but in general I find the alphabet shortcurs (like S: select, D:dropper) easier to work with than Fn. Of course in this case not switching tools is still the better solution.

[@sid8823]

That was a great help. Thanks

[@flairpen3053]

U can also use s key for selecting and d key for dropping

[@paulfigueiredo3168]

You consistently upload tutorials on topics that I find myself thinking about the previous day. you, sir, are a wizard.

[@qwertyasdf7615]

So true! it makes me a tad uneasy ....

[@spacex9999]

a what?!

[@deln644]

I agree...

[@dougbeney6399]

I FOUND THE SOLUTION. :) Might want to pin this, Nick, as I think it's a problem with newer versions of Inkscape. So, highlight all of your circles and hit Path>>Simplify. This will reduce your circle from 4 nodes to 2. Now, when you run your Voronoi Diagram extension it will work perfectly. I'll also include the current pinned comment here just to provide more helpful info in this comment: "after you colored the first triangle you can just use the "Tab" Key to toggle between the triangles so you don't need to switch the tools every time."

[@czn_natalia]

The mesh just world for me with the 1.0 version. Thank you Nick, your work is wonderful!🤩

[@harshithareddy8202]

Yeah it worked! ❤️

[@az4131]

Yours is the only solution that works - and makes sense!! Thanks for this answer.

[@abuyahyaaditya]

your solution is the best. IT WORKED. thankyou

[@Xiguli]

I'm in 1.0.1 and it didn't work until I tried this. Thank you!

[@Summiteslclubenglish]

For those having trouble getting the wire frame using Voronoi diagram, select all the nodes (circles) and then use Object to Path before using the Extension --> Generate from path --> Voronoi diagram option. This worked for me. Saw a comment below that discussed this but it's buried way down in the comments, so hopefully repeating this tip in a more recent comment will make it easier to find.

[@ShowAloudLy]

Thank you for the update. However, it is not working for me. Some lines are not connected for some reason. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Thanks!

[@Summiteslclubenglish]

@@ShowAloudLy wish I could help you, but it's been a while since I played with this.

[@ShowAloudLy]

@@Summiteslclubenglish Thank you for your reply. I hope someone will be able to give me the answer.

[@Julian-bm9sx]

@@russellw5447 You got some circles that are double (on top of each other). Reduce the opacity and see which circle are doubled. delete all the doubles and you should solve the problem

[@angelawanjala5726]

Thank you so much, it worked 😀

[@dieselstruck]

Dude, you have hands down the best tutorials! Boom!

[@Haelu786]

not working for me. some of them next to each other aren't connecting up but are connecting to others further away so it's kind of a mess

[@susankniola5958]

Me too. I tried remaking the dots exactly like he did (I did them a little too random the first time and thought thier layer order might be the cause, but it still came out wonky

[@susankniola5958]

OK, 3rd time worked. I rewatched carefully and duplicated EXACTLY in the same order he did, double checked ALL dots for duplicates and it worked! HTH

[@lulualmohtarif]

me too

[@ImmaBuildit]

thats happening to me, too >~

[@dieselstruck]

Same happening here. First time came out right, for some reason after that they come up inconsistent. anyone find a fix?

[@cazimirroman3508]

Great tutorial Nick! For those of you who have the problem with messy lines make sure you do not duplicate before using the SPACE BAR duplicate method. It's just enough to grab a circle and use the SPACE BAR to create copies of that. TLDR : Don't CTRL + D before you use SPACE BAR to create copies.

[@TheBeluga2805]

If you use the newer version of Inkscape, I think I found a way to achieve a similar goal. Apparently, the new Vonoroi diagram extension does not like when the dots that outline the square here are perfectly aligned. So the solution I came up with is placing the dots OUTSIDE the square manually. Then place random dots inside the square and perform the extension, as instructed in the video. You should be able to get neat triangles like in the video this way. When you are done with coloring in those triangles with the dropper, then delete the strokes and group all the triangles. Then draw a new square, in the same size as the meshed one. Select the square and the grouped triangles, Object->Clip->Set; you should now have something like th abstract background like the one made in the video, although among the colorful triangles there will be some squares (but I guess the average person won't care. right?)

[@gcioffi8792]

BLESS YOU DEAR ONE!!

[@RachelBruner]

I had problems with getting the triangles to work properly, as others mentioned in the comments. However, some of the tips others gave didn't work so here's what I tried (not sure if anyone else mentioned it but I didn't see it). I started over with the circles and when I made them I went around the border (clockwise) first then when I made the duplicates inside the box I made them close together as I moved around the box vs making them all over in more random spots. I thought that perhaps an internal layering order in the software might be trying to connect those that had been made (duplicated) close in order of when they were made and not relative to where they were physically. If that makes any sense. Well, that worked for me in any case. Thx!

[@kissgergo5202]

Thanks for the tip, it really helped me!

[@FranKoPepez]

It doesn't work for me :( I'm doing everything you do but can't obtain perfect triangles like yours

[@meeesh7507]

@@cookiecap_465 Thank you, I had the same problem

[@pekka8592]

Make sure Layer 1 is locked! (before selecting all the circles for triangulation) For duplicates, make the circles black with 50% opacity and check them against a white background (by simply clicking Layer 1 visibility off), it's really easy to tell if there's any duplicates that way. I assume the duplicate circles come when people press space bar on the last circle when they should just place the last one by letting go of it (release mouse button) instead of copying yet another one (space bar).

[@املبالحياة]

@@pekka8592 thank you

[@blueskyle8862]

@@cookiecap_465 dioss muchísimas gracias!

[@eremundead6321]

When I get to the delaunay configuration part and press apply, all my lines don't come out nice like yours. Alot of them criss cross each other, ruining the triangle shapes. how do i fix this?

[@BryanZam9]

I had this same problem, figured out I had some duplicate circles at the same spot by accident, that might be it. I mean, it's a year late but I hope it helps

[@zorothescar4159]

Your triangles are perfect, why not mine they are overlapping each other?.

[@willlim9294]

Mine too.. any solution?

[@mohamadilhamramadhan6354]

Mine is also ... I'm trying to find out this problem and I think it's caused by alignment. I try to move the circle on the edge of which too many lines are connected by a little and re-create the diagram, and the results are perfect

[@goodguy5828]

I sometimes have the same issue. Fix that works for me: Delete all circles again, start new and try few circles. After few work, start increasing the amount until it doesnt work anymore. Sometimes it seems to be a problem with the exact location (or the size?) of the dots...

[@taxfrauding]

You have to highlight the circles and press path > simplify (copied)

[@amnaqc5496]

@@taxfrauding Thanks a lot!! That really worked for me!

[@lilyofluck371]

When i try to do the triangulation thing it doesn't work. Nothing happens. I click the button and nothing even happens. I restarted the app and it still won't work Edit: fixed. It was an object instead of a path.

[@hookeralejandro]

hi, same problem here but my circles are paths so what should I do?

[@gideongames8505]

i wish i can see you and thank cause now i can do alot of things on gimp and inkscape, am now selling on fiverr after learn everything through your videos thanks once again which to learn more of inkscape, still have little problem with my inkscape skills

[@777Albatross]

Can you do a tutorial for fashion flats including (T-shirts, Jerseys, Jeans, Joggers, Sweats, Cardigans, Jackets, Hoodies, etc.)

[@Bitmongol]

The Voronoi does not work for me (V 0.92.2) it vreates triangles, but huge holes emerge from the edge... Moving the green circles won't help much :-(

[@faadhilfikrian8413]

Me too

[@bhinderbinder]

When I first saw your cool doughnut, I told myself I *had to* learn how to draw it! 3 weeks later I'm chugging along and learning so much, thanks to you. One reason I like your tutorials so much is I don't hear a lot of 'Uh's' or 'Aah's' or coughing, or sound break-ups. You must plan these somewhat carefully, it's appreciated!

[@LogosByNick]

Thanks, glad you're progressing. I actually do a lot of this on the fly. I just come up with a design idea then start screen capturing.

[@CaineTheBuilder]

I started with the donut too and I've fallen in love with the tutorials. Nick deserves much more views I think.

[@lonelyeagle2d]

For the selections, its possible to select on circle then using the "Select same" function.

[@LogosByNick]

Yes you are right, I should've done this in the video. Thanks for the input.

[@xNoOnE1711x]

Your tutorials are extremely helpful! However, when I make the Voronoi diagram, the lines are intersected and not well shaped as yours. I followed everything u did but I dunno why it happens :(

[@JoseBYOB]

For me, the Delaunay Triangulation didn't work the way it did in the video. I had a few overlapping triangles which weren't too difficult to fix with the "edit paths by nodes" tool.

[@Jelly-rj8fz]

my inkscape is behaving badly!! I got so many extraneous lines going from every dot to eery other dot. so I un grouped, deleted the very large triangles , then added in the shorter missing lines one by one! selected a circle, selected same fill and stroke to delete the circles. also I stayed on gradient fill and as I selected the triangles to dropper color, it created a nice gradient of the color in each triangle. very nice. I don't know why mine came out differently except its 2 years later and the versions may have changed something.

[@太陽明るい-v7v]

It takes me a thousand tries to make a perfect pattern I dont know what Im doing wrong. I have to delete or add circles just so the borders would all connect and the inside would make nice triangles T^T

[@danielscheffler]

So this is for all who have problems with the Voronoi Diagram tool (including me): I just found a solution that needs a bit more time but works nevertheless. 1. You do everything until 4:04 (including the second layer). 2. On the second layer you now create all the different triangles you want to have MANUALLY. Sounds harder than it is. 3. When finished with creating the triangles you have to use the (I don't know what it's called in English) tool where you can choose a colour from any part of the picture (F7) and pick the colour that is in the middle of every single triangle. Press "Tab" to switch between the triangles. For example for one triangle you take the colour that is right in it's middle. For the other one you choose the colour that is in it's middle. Same with every other triangle. You can check if you coloured every triangle by making layer 1 invisible. 4. Your picture should look like the one in this tutorial (at least mine did). You're finished.

[@LogosByNick]

Thanks for the input

[@blueorchid8081]

I solved my issue with the messy lines! There was one "suspicious" dot, that attracted a lot of lines from afar so I deleted that dot and then the pattern was perfect triangles.

[@surendra1990]

The best way of learning from a tut. is to watch it once,then go through the comments, note various observations and solutions and then try it yourself keeping those in mind. saves the heartburn.

[@lajawi.]

I’ll remember, I’m sure.

[@joelj.9075]

I'm having a little trouble getting the triangulation to work. The pattern is distorted (not a set of contiguous triangles) also the perimeter is completely closed off. I read on reddit that I needed to ensure that not of the green circles were overlapping, but that didn't fix my problem. Is there something else I could try in order to get something similar to the pattern seen in the video?

[@Tyler-Kort]

After using the Voronoi Diagram I am getting individual lines instead of triangle shapes. Do you know why this would be happening? It also looks very strange and does not have a complete boarder going all the way around. Thanks and love the videos!

[@chradu]

Layer 1 was set to 1280x720 but I think that the final outcome has these dimensions minus the diameter of the green circle used. Thank you for all the inspiring work you put into these tutorials for the comunity!

[@willianwallacecamparotogal2030]

I had a problem with the "Delaunay Triangulation". It didn't work for me (after I clicked "apply" nothing was changed, it kept the same). Can you help me with this? By the way, great tutorial! Thanks! (from Brazil)

[@mejahijau301]

Try to change the selected objects (the green circle) to path by clicking object to path

[@estrescreativorumis]

Me encanta tu trabajo, ya he realizado muchos de tus tutoriales y bueno me ha gustado mucho mi resultado, y este es otro que elaboraré GRACIAS ♥

[@trevenimukherjee2956]

Hey Nick! I would like to say that I absolutely love your tutorials so far 👍 Second thing is that I am using Inkscape version 1.1.1, and I followed every step only to land up having the triangulation design with too many weird lines and becoming oversized. The good thing is, I got it fixed (thanks to the Stack Exchange forum) by either converting the circles to paths and then adding in the design, or leaving the circles as it is and downsizing the design to the size of the rectangle with the mesh grid colours. Lastly, make sure to have no overlapping duplicate dots, and the dots along the edge of the rectangle should be random on every edge (number and spacing wise), not copied and pasted. Just wanted to leave this comment here in case anyone stumbles into a similar problem like this. Thank you again! 😄

[@joaoc556]

Thanks

[@goodguy5828]

Is there any way to get the triangles colored automatically? I'm using that effect quite often and its just soooo timeconsuming.

[@ricky6475]

I've tried multiple times when making the lines, with the same result. I am 100% positive I've followed the directions correctly and have tried multiple ideas to fix my problem. I seem to not be able to get the lines to connect to the ones next to each other. But still, great tutorial! Fantastic!

[@Julian-bm9sx]

You got some circles that are double (on top of each other). Reduce the opacity and see which circle delete all the doubles and you should solve the problem

[@CayoBuay]

I know this video is for a much older version of Inkscape but I just found it and am enjoying it, I do have one issue tho. When generating the Voronoi Diagram, no matter what I do it does not generate a clean set of triangles. Many of the lines are linking to circles way on the other side of the rectangle bypassing a circle right next to the origination point. I tried several of the suggestions below but none seem to help. Any ideas?

[@realityfirst5585]

Mine is doing the exact same thing! Was hoping to find something in the comments

[@DrRotwang]

Dude! Nick! I've been totally digging your videos, and this one is no exception. However, it's the first tutorial I've followed where I've run into some trouble... After putting all my dots in place, selecting them, and running the Delauney extension on 'em, I get a right mess of lines -- overlapping paths, paths reaching to far-away nodes instead of the nearest ones, and even nodes that aren't connected at all! I've tried it on two machines (a Windows PC and my preferred Linux laptop), both of them running Inkscape .92 and all the settings you suggest. And yet... Any idea what could be the matter? Thanks in advance! Thanks to your tutorials, I've been able to impress all my FB friends.

[@DrRotwang]

By the way -- I saw a cool tip that I tried out, for coloring the triangles. Instead of switching from F1 to F7 every time, you can select the first triangle, hit F7, do the color fill, then hit TAB to go to the next object, and use the dropper again. It worked!

[@salmanbabar]

DrRotwang Overlapping lines are because extra duplicate copies of the circles that we forgot to delete. I had the same problem but I figured that out easily. Try deleting extra copies of the circles. We usually forgot those.

[@DrRotwang]

Thanks for pointing that out! Interestingly, I was messing around with the technique a little while before I read this, and noticed that I was having trouble deleting the circles close to where the problem was happening -- and you're right, it looked like there were doubles. I have no idea how I ended up with those, though...!

[@salmanbabar]

DrRotwang glad to help.

[@theresa4919]

What helped me was to make the entire rectangle smaller. Once you're finished, you can group the triangles together and extend it with the rectangle tool.

[@007jeegar]

I wish I could like this video twice! Great tutorial Nick!

[@DoctorDDub]

@nick saporito The icon pack provided in the link in the description is lacking a few of the new icons in .92, namely the mesh gradient, measurement tool, create and edit meshes button, etc. Do you have a link to download your icon pack? It's different than the Tango BW one linked in the video on your blog. Much appreciated mate!!!

[@shreyashtiwari4716]

Bro I have tried this for the 10 time now but the triangles are never of proper shapes throughout How did this happen with you doing it Please help me out

[@fc16vt]

Same here :-( Someone wrote above it's because too many circles are there....I reduce the numbers of them but still not good, lines are all over the places....

[@gravitowl]

Not working. Some are not connecting, and others are connecting through each other which creates a big mess.

[@EleanorPeterson]

It's beautiful work, and I really like your videos. Top quality stuff: classy, slick, great choice of subjects, and I'm learning a lot. Unfortunately I'm still brand new to Inkscape (and I only started on Gimp 4 months ago), so 'complicated, intuitive' things like your tool-choice, menu selections and mouse movements happen a bit too quickly for me to follow. I keep thinking 'Huh? What? Why did you need to -?' and by then you've moved on. Of course it will all seem obvious after a while - like developing muscle-memory for playing the violin - but at the moment I haven't quite reached the status of 'Beginner', so I'm having to watch each video in 5 second segments! Ah well; it's a good excuse to watch everything again. And again. And again... :-)

[@ИванРайнов-ж1п]

Your second version of Voronoi was correct.

[@RegsterU]

So simple, but such a great idea! thx man keep up your work

[@Kymkin2]

Hi Nick. Was wondering if you could do an update tutorial on this. This method doesn't appear to work anymore with the newest version. I followed the tutorial down exactly and it keeps sending multiple lines across the page to various dots. I tried deleting to make use of less dots, but it didn't help either. Much appreciated. Love the videos!

[@MarinaMatic]

For years I was able to do this, yesterday I installed Inkscape 1 and it doesn't work and my shapes look pixelated. I uninstalled and revert to 92, now 92 is displaying the same issues. I can not get mesh toll to work, no matter what I click it either won't start or only applies to stroke, not fill. I had a working program yesterday now I have a mess.

[@leonardorodriguez9121]

I'm having a weird issue after hitting apply =( ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'lxml' Are you having a similar issue?

[@shlomobachar4123]

When I click on Mesh Gradient (on Fill tab) I don't get as yours. I get the standard division of the square to 4 (sub)areas (or subdivisions) with nodes on each subdivision (as when working with the Mesh Gradient function). I use Inkscape 1.3.2.

[@qwertyasdf7615]

Once again, you kill it Nick. I hope you know how much value you provide. You're truly the best out there man, cheers!

[@qwertyasdf7615]

Oo and are you considering making another paid course in the future?

[@LogosByNick]

Thanks! I'm not sure about that just yet. Probably sometime in the future, but I don't have anything planned yet. Any suggestions?

[@orionv1.294]

Nick Saporito Everytime i try it is doesnt work at all it is crazy and all over the place connecting to the same dot over 5 times on each and skipping the bottom ones leaving big gaps i dont know what is going wrong

[@orionv1.294]

Nvm i figured it out

[@fubecafy]

I'm having the same issue. What was your solution?

[@juanmena3648]

FIX IF IT'S NOT WORKING: Uninstall and install Inkscape *0.92.1*

[@marcellobarisonzi3216]

Something odd occurred to me: the Delaunay triangles I get are very elongated. It looks like the algorithm does not look for the nearby dots, but sometimes jumps across the canvas, as if the order in which I created the dots matters. The result is quite unsatisfactory. But thank you for the nice tutorial anyway!

[@raihan892]

indonesia like dong

[@JeffHenneforth]

I don't know if something changed in version 1.0 but no matter how many times I try, and no matter how many times I change the circles, I cannot get the Delaunay Triangulation to work right. Some of the lines connect the way they are supposed to, but then there are several nodes around the edges that leave a gap between them with no line, and then others connect to too many circles that are not nearby creating a mess of lines jumbled together. I've checked to make sure I don't have duplicate circles on top of each other. If anyone is still watching this and has it figured out I'd love to know. Thanks!

[@AZskylite]

So, you must have selected black fill because it went from NA to black? Maybe I missed it, so I zoomed in on your screen. Baby steps.

[@SomerOneCo]

who has a problem after a voroni efect: ungroup triangles and delete ugly. Then draw triangles by hand with tool shift andf6. I used it because I have only one head :D

[@William-nw4sk]

I just realized that Inkscape back then, is pretty much the same Inkscape now, at least on the UI.

[@caiozendron5024]

my inkscape is always with problems... it stops working and shut down ... i have to save every time..... i think i reopened it like 20 times doing this... anyone know what i can do to solve this issue?? tks

[@ThinkingBeanz]

I figured out the cause of the “messy lines” problem! Find the circle with the most lines coming out of it, and then delete it. Retry triangulation

[@wolfspirit220]

I tried following along to your tutorial and my triangles don't show up. I have the same settings in triangulation as you but when I hit apply nothing changes. Any suggestions?

[@isabelat.597]

I had a strange problem that one triangle coudn't be selected to change the color. I tried to select it every way possible, it just woudn't go, maybe for some reason there wasn't a triangle where it seemed, so I created it with the Bezier tool and it worked fine.

[@chesterha11]

Hey man! Just used this technique to put that extra touch on a project I'm working on! This was awesome! Thanks for all of your help, and keep uploading the great tutorials! #skillsetupgraded

[@zenobia7314]

It doesn't copy the mesh When I copy colors. It just copy the simple color itself without the effect I applied on the rectangle :(

[@paulinaescobar5259]

Your tutorials are really helpful Nick (i'm in love with your logos), just one question how i convert this proyect to jpeg? i really can't find any option, or if you have a video explaining it please let me know :) thank you!

[@mohammedshabbir699]

Didn't work. I did exactly like you did. But I get a messed up triangle thingy. It is not as elegant as yours

[@spkitz]

need help, i created a logo and applied linear gradient, but once i move the logo .. the gradient changes .. can anybody tell me whats wrong .. or which video to watch to correct this, thanks in advance

[@ezrac704]

For some reason when I export it keeps exporting the lines even though they are removed. I've tried a wide variety of things, but nothing seems to work.

[@maxng7916]

Guys my circles do not disappear after the delaunay triangulation is added. What do I do?

[@yuqe]

Great Video! thank you so much for all these tutorials!

[@AnnelyYooo]

If disk size of image matters, its not a good idea to just duplicate the whole thing to get rid of white corners. Does someone have an idea how to remove them instead?

[@graphikeye]

How did you get the space bar to be repeat action? All I get is the pan command

[@kamsikwong2519]

How to improve the scanned pdf (raster) file to a vector pdf file?

[@AnkurShah_CS]

When I used the voronoi diagram, the triangles are all messing each other, unlike here, no triangle is overlapping other one! What to do???

[@lorenzoantenucci7216]

I have the same problem.

[@DoctorDDub]

I've run into that issue as well. They connect across each other. Looks awful...

[@Wilczowaty]

I think I found out the solution of this issue. 1) Delete all duplicated circles which accidentally was made during copying (Two circles are located in one place - delete additional circle). 2) Close the rectangle with circles (add more circles on two sides of rectangle). I hope it helps :D

[@bigbangharu1]

Thanks, I solved by (2)

[@RachelBruner]

I was having the same issue but didn't find duplicates and the second option helped in some areas but would still create the problem in other areas. I finally found a third option that worked great. I posted that in this comment: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZnGqaitebCibKs&lc=Ugwuwq58pFN0y3eQfgt4AaABAg

[@messtwice]

I have a question about gradients. Is it only me or Inkscape doesn't handle gradients that well. My partner is using Illustrator and she noticed right away that something is off with those gradients. It was best seen when we used a high-quality Dell monitor. Inkscape gradients seem to be chopped into segment like shapes. It's not smooth, it's like stairs - you can see the lines between the steps. Is there any fix to it?

[@hianaefrancodasilva1305]

Can I do with letters? Or from photos and / or objects?

[@blinkerplease1936]

Hi Nick. . . another great tutorial. I tried another trick to make the lines disappear; instead of deleting the mesh image on layer 1, I copied the group on layer 2 and used the paste size to make the mesh gradient rectangle the same size. I then raised it to layer 2 and lowered it beneath the group and the lines disappeared. I exported it to png to make sure that would work as well. Thanks again for showing one of the new features of 92.

[@RachelBruner]

Excellent! I had a little trouble following what you did, but here's what I did which I think is similar maybe just simplified? Before removing the stroke outline of layer 2 I made layer 1 visible, unlocked it, then resized the mesh rectangle to the same size as layer 2, then when I removed the stroke of layer 2, boom no white lines!

[@tlap08609]

why i can't ctrl+d mulitple times with space bar??

[@HenryChompz]

this thing can used too on low poly

[@HonkTheMusic]

Excellent tutorial. Now I've got to figure out how to make ANY of these work correctly on my end. Something always goes extremely wrong and my result isn't even close to yours.

[@blwbisht]

yeah i also made it and its looks dope thanks man appreciate it

[@davidhodges8156]

Hi Nick! I enjoy all of your tutorials. A quick question, what happened to "illustrator for beginners? I really liked that one too. Perhaps your to busy these days. Anyway, thanks for the videos!

[@LogosByNick]

Thanks David. Honestly, I bit off more than I can chew. Creating 3 videos per week + all my client work + maintaining my website/blog and everything else I have going on was just too overwhelming. It doesn't look like I'm going to have the time to continue on with that channel. Sorry to let you down.

[@timheard5906]

I tried to use the Voronoi Diagram extension but the only extension I have in the 'Generate from Path' section is 'Inset/Outset Halo.' Apparently, none of the extensions in the 'Generate from Path' section you have did not come with Inkscape when I first installed it on my computer a few weeks ago. I tried looking for the Voronoi Diagram extension but had no luck. I couldn't find it on the official Inkscape website, either. Any advice on where to look for additional Inkscape extensions besides the official website? Any information you can provide will be useful. Thank you.

[@pablo6505]

great explanation -> just made my first Background with inkscape - WOOP WOOP :)

[@veeramage2930]

Hm, mine went wrong somewhere. You have a set black box around your design but mine is warped. I'm wondering if this is contributing to my second problem, I can't click on the spaces, only the black lines. I also have "ungroup selected groups" rather than "ungroup selected objects"? drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQOPJ-4bAlXTjlQV2R2WWowMUU/view?usp=sharing

[@synerg1x]

Try using less circles (less vertices).

[@enzostark]

when I created the triangled pattern, it did not created as much triangles as yours, there was even a missing spot, I believe that I had to add more circles for it to generate a better pattern !

[@vikasma1000]

❤Love and respect from 🇮🇳India

[@Carontiff]

Hi Nick: Thanks very much for the tutorial. Just wondering why the web I created fell out of the area and came up as a very big one (7:48) instead of connecting nicely between the circles? Thanks.

[@faraazkhatib3725]

How do I get rid of colour banding when using a gradient?

[@justonlyone7409]

Nick please help me. This extension doesn't work correctly on my inkscape 0.92.2 how can I ensure this extension to work correctly ? I did too many times what you said in this video but it not worked any time. Thanks.

[@prodbyryshy]

My voronoi diagram extension didnt really work well, ended up getting a lot of duplicate overlapped lines and lines between dots very var from one another, creating a pretty ugly frame of triangles. I cleaned it up pretty quickly but im wondering should I reinstall inkscape 0.92 or install 0.91 to avoid this? edit: now this issue is making it nearly impossible to color in the triangles properly, as once I ungrouped the diagram half of the triangles arent actually objects, the individual lines for the sides are their own objects. This is a headache!

[@sohailape]

my Voronoi Diagram not working. Nothing appears. I am using inkscape 0.92.2

[@annikan4923]

Perhaps a silly question, but when I duplicate the layer to make the white lines go away, the whole thing gets way more saturated. I want it rather pale. I don't see a shift in color when you duplicate your layer. What's causing it? Any idea?

[@kotgc7987]

The Voronoi diagram makes messy lines, rather than nice triangles. Using the Bezier tool to manually draw triangles opens up even more work. Would be good to know how to have correct triangles from the Voronoi diagram.

[@designbybeck]

In Inkscape there are multiple keystrokes for most common items... try S for Selection and D for Dropper, easier that the F-keys

[@Microphunktv-jb3kj]

I'm just learning vector graphics a little as a coder.. but in some cases you actually needs strokes and points not px for svg web animations.. the one in your video aint defined as right? your video gave me idea and made this -> www.upload.ee/files/8669356/polybg.rar.html

[@LogosByNick]

You can change the default unit to points I believe

[@deln644]

Excellent training videos! And there are several tools/uses of those tools covered in each video so that we learn not just the one tool/idea, but many in the one training video. Very detailed explanation for a newcomer to Inkscape from Adobe Photoshop...

[@23paige23]

Poor Nick I wonder how many times he has had to change to px and remove the document border... is there a way for me to save that setting...

[@Trazia_K]

Is there a reason why I get an error message when I go to do the Voronoi Diagram process. It'll then make the diagram all weird and the lines don't come out as uniform as yours do. I've added more dots, removed dots, not sure whats happening.

[@teofiloveloz6027]

Hi nick the #1. 3mendous tutorials. I learnded a lot. Tkyou so much. The best. God bless you nick.

[@abdallaelhwary2371]

when i use gnerated from path give me error why!!!

[@MomandTell]

I figured out (at least for my computer) that you can also click D for dropper and S for select. And then I realized if I was using the dropper tool already and hit D again, it went back to the select tool. It made the process very fast!

[@igorka9354]

In case you had the bad-looking triangles problem, if found out that the reason for that its that you have two or more circles in the same spot, one above the other.

[@dannwe123]

Surely it must be possible to automate the filling in of the triangles somehow? Or is Inkscape too ghetto? In Ai it should at the very least be possible to write a script that automates it

[@bobfurness2753]

Hi Nick, I want to bring something to your attention, I´m getting a "warning : mesh SVG Syntax Subject To Change." I haven´t seen how it affect things yet, also my triangles are equally messed up with many having the same origin point and there are no duplicates. This is what is being said on the Inkscape page about the warning; "WARNING: Mesh SVG syntax is subject to change. Mesh support in browsers is not certain. For web use, one can replace a mesh by a bitmap using Edit->Create bitmap copy. For print, export to PDF supports meshes." Thanks for the great videos, I´m learning loads!!