Inkscape Graphic Design Tutorial: How to Make Abstract Backgrounds with Stitch Sub-Paths LPE Tool

[@OwnARozario]

Thanks for the instruction. Just the one I was looking for. What I intend to do is have a reference image and create linear line-art of the reference image. Finally i want to project the linear line-art onto a wall, and manually draw the lines on to the wall. Thanks Rick.

[@IronEchoDesign]

Just saw your email and wrote you back. Your artwork is beautiful.

[@editmarton5280]

Thank you so much! this is amazing :) I was just playing, and I started not with straight lines, but with curved one (Bezier pen / create spiro path), it looks like 3D object!

[@IronEchoDesign]

Nice! Thanks so much, and that sounds cool. Will have to try it out!

[@staceyintexas304]

So helpful! I'm learning lots from you and applying your lessons to making files for laser cutting. Can't wait to try this one.

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks! Have fun with the laser cutting projects! These are pretty fun to do.

[@O-ne2my]

Thank you so much! This is worth watching and keep growing the channel!! Greetings from Serbia!

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you so much! I'll keep at it!

[@HMaxTube11]

Endless design possibilities. Rabbit hole or not, I wouldn’t have figured these techniques out ever. Super vid.🌟👏👍🎉

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks! I never could figure out my original idea. Ha.

[@Bea-LTC]

Hi Nick, it's just fantastic that you bring your design training here to Inskape and explain these difficult deposit effects so well. I can't speak English very well, so I'm also learning that on the side with the help of google. I'll watch many more of your videos, I've learned the basics in German. If I have a question, can I ask it here? I am a new fan of yours and subscribed to your channel. Greetings from the German Baltic Sea coast, the beautiful Darß with its beautiful beaches.

[@IronEchoDesign]

Vielen Dank! Thanks so much and any questions that come up, I'm happy to see if I can answer.

[@mrmshifan]

Great video. Easy to understand. Thank you 👍👍👍

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you!!

[@trinitri9345]

Thanks, this tutorial led me to something else I can do with ease!!

[@IronEchoDesign]

Nice! Thank you!!

[@Roboto-chan_1402]

I too had to make these by hand with a ruler and pencil in art class at high school . It was fun yet also tedious 😂. This is so cool! Thanks for sharing this with us, Richard!

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks! Wasn't it fun using rulers and pencils? I love the computer, of course, but there was something very tangible that felt good working on paper.

[@Roboto-chan_1402]

@@IronEchoDesign 💯! Because of this tangibility I started sketching again. I think we all need a balance between the digital and the "real" (analogue?) world to keep us sane and compassionate. Have a splendid week, Richard.

[@IronEchoDesign]

So true, and you too!!

[@WeQuiltStudio]

Ty Rick! Now you got me thinking about making a bunch of these and arranging them into a Seamless pattern.

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks! Seemless pattern with these would be really cool.

[@RUSTICW0LF]

Great tutorial Rick! It remined me of the 'pin and string' pictures my father use to make back in the 70s. 👍🐺👍

[@dawitbahta6275]

Amazing🎉

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks!!

[@mira987]

Rick, what a nice tutorial again! 👍👍👍 But we have soon Autumn🍂🍁🕸☔ Let's get prepared und do some nice Fall design.... A misty rainy day and nice autumn leaves... Maybe water drops effect on a windowpane...

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you!! I love rainy artwork. Rain, not so much, misty rain views are beautiful. I'll start playing around with some ideas. Thanks!

[@barbarafidler910]

thanks for sharing, the fact I got that to work :) was pretty awesome tool :)

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks!!

[@AugustusOmega]

I've got one for you! Imagine a black ink brush stroke swirl thick and elegant with pointed ends. Now take various sized stars arranged within the stroke line of that brush stroke so it looks like the stars make up the brush stroke instead of the black ink. I tried to make this with the spray can but in the end spent hours arranging and re-sizing stars. Just wondering if theres a quick mechanical way to do it, but the arrangement is important, the stars cant be haphazardly overlapping each other.

[@vishmikaperera1613]

Have been waiting for a tutorial like this, Thank You so much. Hey, I have a question about Mandalas. It's about how to streamline mandala creation workflow with the way you showed to set up the file but with multiple pages. Do you have any idea to do that? The layers and guides get messy.

[@Granaldigirl]

This is great! Thanks!

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you!!

[@user-pescatore99]

Afterr the cross blur i applied the clean edges filter ( i think that i s the name, i use Inkscape in another language). Just a bit of this filter in some versions of your coweb and it was improved.

[@user-pescatore99]

*improved for my sense of design

[@IronEchoDesign]

Very cool. I'll try that too!

[@jg7525]

Hey @IronEcho Design can you do a lofi album cover tutorial for us plz?

[@Aitimoney]

Do you have a course? Not sure if I have asked you before, I would definitely be interested or if we could create something for your videos.

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks so much. I don't have a course, but I'm working on an exercise book. Not fitness, but practice excersises to work on Inkscape tools and techniques. I envision it to be a set of 30 or 40 mini projects that would take the reader step-by step, learning the method along the way. Ultimately I would have all 30-40 projects tutorials for free on the channel, and the book would be a supplement if people wanted a hard copy reference material. Does this idea have any potential? Any projects/ tools/ techniques you would want to see included? Thanks for any insight or thoughts!

[@Aitimoney]

@@IronEchoDesign yes it has great potential. Let me think on the question you asked at end to put things on paper. Your videos are to the point and not to long. Maybe a 10 set step (beginner, intermediate, advanced) so person could master, kinda of like writing your spelling words in the old days, to see the word in your mind. Will get the other stuff down.

[@IronEchoDesign]

That's so smart. The exercises could progressively get more complex. Like spelling books or piano exercises from back in the day. Thanks.

[@Aitimoney]

@@IronEchoDesign will put down some more thoughts this weekend. Thank you for taking time and responding. Makes me feel like someone is listening. Have a Grand Weekend.

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks, you too!

[@donkeyschat5052]

Great! Thasnks.

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you very much!

[@angrybadger6761]

I selected Stich Sub and a bar appears in the horizontal that allows you to bend the lines en-masse ..... only have the normal select tool in operation .... Spiro spline has appeared at the top of the PE window .... can send screen shot and svg if required. Next trick is to get them all emerging and entering the same point but a bit busy at the moment. ....... Edit!!! Bezier pen was set in Spiro spline mode, I was wondering why I could not give it a prefixed gradient before applying the manipulation. Stroke - colour - combine - PE = Bingo!

[@IronEchoDesign]

Nice!! I've been revisiting this video and finally got the flight pattern bend. Love experimenting.

[@flakybooger2464]

are you able to get one image to evolve into another....for example, like a pokemon evolving to its next form.... Charmander into Charmeleon into Charizard

[@IronEchoDesign]

That would be awesome. I was trying to do an evolving Spiderman design. It's hard!

[@flakybooger2464]

@@IronEchoDesign I made multiple copies edited each, and merged them into a gif, just takes long time

[@IronEchoDesign]

Nice work. That is next level. Good stuff.

[@Kalle38]

amazing video! if i export to PNG, it looks so shit tho, anything that can help with that?

[@Kalle38]

Oh, I found it, the background was transparent, I added a Black rectangle and then it looked waaaay better

[@IronEchoDesign]

Nice! I know what you mean. When I export with no background it looks disastrous.

[@zakaryaa7484]

Interesting

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks. I like this method.

[@patrickmclaughlin6013]

Thanks!

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you!!

[@ShomeAvi]

Can you tell me why I no longer have the same color wheel with a triangle instead I have a weird quadrilateral color wheel which is so difficult to control and understand. Is there a work around for this?

[@IronEchoDesign]

Are you in Inkscape 1.2? If so, on the Fill and Stroke menu, you'll see a rectangle selection box near the top right. Click on that and change the drop down choice to HSL. Then you can change from the color sliders by selecting the Color Wheel choice. Hope this helps!

[@ShomeAvi]

@@IronEchoDesign Thank you so much for replying and helping me out. I thought I had to relearn and come to terms with the new changes. Thanks very much. I see it is there like you said. Do you think the free scrolling of the page with two fingers on trackpad is also there?.. because I was able to scroll in only up down direction. I had to hold the shift key for side ways scrolling. Is there a work around for that too? I hope you have noticed that change too.

[@IronEchoDesign]

Good point. I haven't tried Inkscape with a trackpad. Hopefully there is a setting that can be adjusted to bring the feature back.

[@ShomeAvi]

@@IronEchoDesign I never used a mouse. Trackpad used to scroll freely in all directions with 2 fingers. It was very fun, easy and everything felt under control. Alas! Now it is gone..I couldn't find any settings. 😄I am not getting any solution of this anywhere not even in forum. Guess everyone uses mouse.

[@ShomeAvi]

Anyways love your videos. Keep making more

[@mrmshifan]

If InkScape had features to edit raster images, it would be massive. Gimp is very hard to use.

[@IronEchoDesign]

I think about this a lot. Much of what I design personally, I end up finishing in Photoshop. I understand Inkscape is a vector program, but if there was a companion program like the way Illustrator and Photoshop go together- that would indeed be massive.

[@willmfrank]

And now, somewhere out there in cyberspace, some open-source developers are working on something that they're gonna call "GIMP-Scape." ...We can hope...

[@IronEchoDesign]

That would be amazing. Seriously a game changer.

[@noel7083]

Can you do a tutorial on how to make animation with Inkscape?

[@claudenobles779]

This is not pertaining to this lesson, my apologies. My question, and many others have this issue. How to print an image, bigger than the paper available in your printer. How do you print, hypothetically, a 20" x 20" created in inkscape, then have your printer "tile" and print it. ?????? If it's not presently a feature it should be in the next upgrade. Your other tutorials have been excellent.

[@IronEchoDesign]

What a great question!! I'm not sure all printers have a "tile" setting for splitting up large scale projects automatically into pages that would fit together to form the whole image. If anyone knows of one that does, please comment. However, the latest version of Inkscape now allows for Multi-Page designs. I haven't played around with it yet, but theoretically you could use this Multi-Page feature to choose how your design is split up, and then export all the pages for printing out on your printer with the specified paper size.

[@claudenobles779]

@@IronEchoDesign Thanks for your prompt response. I am new to inkscape but will look for the multi-page feature. Thanks for the clue. We'll see who can figure it out first....ready, set go😁

[@Anomander64]

Either "Save As.." or "Export" the actual size image as a .PDF format. Open it in a PDF viewer and when you go to Print, there should be an option to tile the image across multiple pages.

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you, Craig.

[@claudenobles779]

@@IronEchoDesign will try that now and report back. Thanks I.E.D. and Craig 💪