Inkscape Tutorial: 3D Vector Sphere Icon/Logo

[@LogosByNick]

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/

[@justinchimento5654]

thanks this is actually oddly similar to what I had in mind for my own business, at least to start off with and I can always change it. Thank you for this

[@onesyphorus]

"you know what? i know some ppl are broke. i knew i'm fully capable of what that guy made in illustrator. so i'm gonna go the extra mile and make something just as good on inkscape- all free of charge, for random people on youtube". thank you, Nick.

[@somchaibrown6731]

This is probably my fourth or fifth logo I watch from Nick, awesome, quick and to the point! Thanks Nick for making the complex artwork simple to understand...

[@lifelimitless1710]

I have downloaded Inkscape on Saturday. Finished all tutorials of TJ on Sunday. And now doing practical lesson on this one on 4th day. I must say, cracking Inkscape is made easy by you NIck. Thanks for the wonderful creativity dose.

[@sexychickens4515]

You're the greatest tutorial maker for inkscape on youtube.

[@LogosByNick]

+Sexy Chickens Thank you!

[@sexychickens4515]

+Nick Saporito (LogosByNick) Welcome (:

[@digitaladskenya5729]

i second this @Nick Saporito @Sexy Chickens

[@JeremyRitcheyphixxer]

I've watched two of your videos and learned more about inkscape than I have from watching about 2 dozen videos in the past couple weeks. Thanks so much for the help, as I've always been a paintshop/Photoshop guy!

[@LogosByNick]

+Jeremy Ritchey (phixxer) Wow, had no idea my tutorials were that helpful. Thanks!

[@RoboticCreators]

well, I have to say , The best TEACHER is someone who makes you fall in love with the subject even if its damn boring, and yes u made me fall in love with inkscape.

[@tiagoas171]

this separates an artist, real designer to corel addicted ones ... congratulations for the outstanding desing, wish i'll be some day like that.

[@robertoochoa7934]

this guy is like a digital bob ross

[@acabbie]

great tutorial there Nick, really showing us what can be achieved with inkscape. There's not many inkscape tuts on youtube that are as well explained as yours and i look forwards to each new one. thanks for your time and commitment.

[@ahmeddeiaa3943]

your tutorials are amazing..... you make me believe that Inkscape is awesome every time I watch your videos

[@LogosByNick]

+ahmed deia Thanks! I aspire to put Inkscape on the map and start digging in to Adobe's market share 8)

[@dreeze49]

You are incredible! This is literally giving me a headache. There are so many steps it'll take me 5 yrs just to create this on my own.

[@eljanagugu1439]

wow! this was amazing. I'm actually a beginner and I haven't taken any classes, but it turned out pretty good. Thanks a lot

[@justinchimento5654]

Oddly enough I had something similar in mind for a logo I'm working on for my own business. I am gonna change the colors and the shape a bit and add some text but this was a huge help since I need to save as much money as possible for what I need to do and once I get more established I can change it if need be.

[@JQ-Frances]

Incredible just how you could come up with those amazing logo ideas by just simply manipulating different shapes and colours...absolutely inspiring and stunning

[@TheZiZaZo]

You are very good at explaining things! Thanks for including all the small tips in the video, too!

[@gjaynir0508]

I am a big fan of your videos. When I first opened this application, I couldn't understand a single thing but your videos helped me learn this awesome open source software and now, I use this software daily. Thanks a lot. I like the way you show the keys you are pressing and the mouse clicks. I tried using carnac but it wasn't that good. It would be really helpful if you could tell which app you use for that. Hope you don't take it wrong.

[@GraphicDesignStudio]

Wow great tutorial.. No need illustrator

[@LogosByNick]

Thanks, you have some great Inkscape videos on your channel as well

[@Bradyboy26]

best inkscape tut i have seen so far good job

[@LogosByNick]

+brady_boy 26 Thank you

[@Bradyboy26]

your welcome

[@josemesacabellos9465]

I count my subscriptions with the fingers of one hand... You are one right now. Need I say more? ;). Great job man. Thanks a lot.

[@abaholech6297]

The best Inkscape tutorial available, definitely i subscribe. GREAT JOB!

[@LogosByNick]

+aba holech Thank you for subscribing!

[@geswinfitness8005]

Thank you Nick. Awesome stuffs! I just downloaded inkscape and will have fun with it. Keep up good stuffs coming. I highly appreciate it

[@srv232]

Complete mastery of the software. Thanks so much.

[@mardanafin]

I like the way you describe things to audiences

[@DimitriBoyarski]

OMG dude I just stayed up till 5 am doing your tutorials. Didn't wanna sleep anyway :`(

[@dianecollins6674]

This is a fun way of getting really creative with shapes! Thank you!

[@KnightBott]

Sweet! I saw that same Illustrator video. I love taking Adobe videos and making the same things as them using Inkscape and Gimp. This video was great. Subscribed!

[@LogosByNick]

Thanks. Yeah I like showing people that Inkscape can do virtually anything Illustrator can.

[@jefferex1]

Thanks, for making me realize I waste $300 on adobe illustrator and photoshop. Subscribed

[@rmjrmj4]

Amazing, I learned so much... now I just can't forget it.

[@derrickfyffe7269]

Hey Nick. Thanks for the videos. I just started learning Inkscape, and it is going good so far. Keep up the good work.

[@anilrajnarooka]

This is brilliant, you are doing great work Nick... by bringing beauty in this world...keep it up...!!

[@tanalee229]

As mentioned below, magic. Great skills, Nick.

[@salauddeensyed5295]

for a beginner it is like revelation, thanks for an awesome tutorial.

[@rblihovde]

Great video! I always learn something when I watch your videos, from now on I'm double clicking to add a gradient stop!

[@LogosByNick]

+Bob Blihovde It's definitely a much easier approach. I always knew about it, but didn't realize how much easier it is until recently.

[@kuroshikki708]

you are practically a digital god

[@ElliotGraham]

I'm finding these videos extremely useful for finding nice techniques for making nice drop shadows and how to achieve certain geometries. Can you suggest any books or magazines which are useful for giving ideas for what to incorporate into designs? Great videos!

[@alkaupadhyay7650]

Man chwck out some international buisness magazines. The companies have a lot of logos and related stuff.

[@CleverMarkDesign]

Very creative form. I also manged to make something with myself in 2013, also on KZbin, video tutorial for Illustrator. Just type 3D logo! I think now that my video has just over 700,000 views. I am surprised because some people are now seeing for the first time. Luckily not violated the copyrights of authors! Please!

[@LogosByNick]

+Clever Mark Yes I saw it. I wanted to show people how to create the design in Inkscape, although you executed the design much better than I did. Great work!

[@GNU_Linux_for_good]

I had to subscribe. This is great stuff. Thanks a lot.

[@LogosByNick]

+FreeSoftware Thank you. My pleasure.

[@ramp695]

I am learner. very inspired with your design skills. Thanks for the presentation.

[@LogosByNick]

+Ramesh Pydi Thanks for watching!

[@crossbladevi]

yours is a little more 3d looking and theirs is just a little more polished...this was an awesome tutorial

[@SarahAlJeohanny]

Thank you for sharing this, it was fantastic, you are a real digital artist

[@cristian88]

Wow great, I followed all the steps and create my first 3D design Thank you

[@mongaplastic]

Great Tutorials. Watched three in a row. Subscribed. thanks for educating.

[@viniciuscunha327]

you are some sort of a hero man, subscribed

[@musatov75]

DUDE, THAT IS AMAZING WORK, THNX!

[@kenwu7]

near the 14:38 mark, when you were talking about the space left over near the grey and blue... If you zoom in and click (possibly double click) you can adjust the edge of the shape i.e. pull a corner to the edge of the sphere without adjusting the entire shape itself. Hope thats clear :) (ver. 0.92.3)

[@wishmaster3000]

That logo looks really awesome! Great tutorial, thank you. Just found out about Inkscape today, of course I'm interested! Keep it up

[@AllenWheels]

thank you for the great tutorial! very cool example and your instructions were simple and easy to follow

[@bijaydahal0]

Thank you very much.... I am interested in learning graphics and your channel is helping me to pursue my learning with free open source software. thank you so much.

[@southsider1036]

this is so cool.im new to inkscape & this is awesome.alot of steps but worth watching. & its not sloppy Nick Saporito. its very informative.

[@LogosByNick]

+southsider1036 Thank you. Glad you liked it.

[@southsider1036]

+Nick Saporito (LogosByNick) you're very welcome

[@lakshyasingh9259]

Just love your tutorials

[@expressocean9874]

Excellent! I love your videos, they are some of the best and most helpful!

[@hamadykais9318]

Amazingly beautiful. Although I can't "follow" your steps and your imagination. Really beautiful.

[@IRISHEYEZFILMS]

Hey Nick, Is it possible to turn a flat 2-D logo of three figure eights into a 3-D sphere? If so, what program would be best and most user-friendly? Thank you for this video !

[@combat2ouf1]

wow ! what a job !!! you have some awesome skills, dude. very impressive inkscape tutorial ever. thank you very much ! please don't stop ;-)

[@WedersonWinchester]

I really like these tutorials.

[@jacobdavid]

Great video. Thank you for sharing. You have good mastery over Inkscape.

[@mosog8829]

I had no idea inkscape can do this. Thanks

[@Ekraelum]

This helped me a lot with my homework. SUBSCRIBED.

[@LikeTanya]

thank you very much from Russian student :) it`s very very cool!

[@canvastic]

Lovely tutorial! I used some of your awesome tips to create a vector coffee cup! :D

[@LogosByNick]

+SD Origami Cool, glad to hear :)

[@GwlaS]

Great tutorial, I really like it. Simple to follow

[@0004voltz]

Awesome Tutorial man

[@eroScorp12]

You are a magician, for real!

[@RebelliousX]

This is great video, but in my opinion @9:44 was the best this shape will ever be, you could have ended there. The reason is, @9:44 the blue spherical ball was looking like it is in the center of the outer shell. Unlike the final image, which it looks behind the shell. Thanks for your video, it is awesome, "just like that" XD

[@LogosByNick]

+RebelliousX82 Thanks. You have a good point!

[@joeyselk8447]

Wonderful tutorial. Very beginner friendly!

[@apetzon]

I cant find the snap to custom nodes Burton on my interface and cant find custom in View? How do I do That? I Am using the latent version of inkscape. Thanks for an awesome tutorial.

[@WedersonWinchester]

Now I know the technique, I need now the inspiration.

[@hangugeohaksaeng]

Awesome job Nick! No need to apologize for "Sloppy work". It doesn't even look bad to me and I understand that if you were doing this on your own time as it were, you would correct the little stuff. Thanks for not obsessing -- for the video's sake. :) Thanks again.

[@fonzjedelarosa7587]

Great tutorial, thank you!

[@Superspiderbatman2]

hello...pretty good tutorials, maybe a little advanced for a Inkscape beginner but i'll try to keep up.

[@cube_view]

Its a very very good tutorial👍👍👍

[@gregghardin6506]

That's really cool,Nick! Thanks.

[@broderp]

@14:15 Inkscape will not allow me to create the center point for the gradient. ???? The other gradients worked fine....

[@eternalflame1548]

Wow dude... great video. Thank you

[@graphguy]

How do you get that little keyboard insert at the bottom left of the screen that shows the key sequence you push?

[@patricio1163]

You are a genius!! Thanks very much!!

[@kingmenka2085]

Awesome design thanks

[@douglasmoratorres6745]

Really great tutorials! Thanks for sharing your knowledge

[@rmstm5640]

cool it gives me a lot of ideas thank you !

[@diwakarnautiyal7088]

thank you. very nice tutorial

[@manutegg82]

great tutorial!! A huge contribution.

[@LogosByNick]

+Manuel Garcia Thanks!

[@aranharsin9719]

I probably missed something but when you cahnge the opacity on 4:54 On my inkscape it still displays the image at 4:55 but with brighter colours. What did i do wrong?

[@dollieelizabethjames343]

Nick , can you please do tutorial videos on Hitfilm 4 Express ? Like how to add motion graphics on videos and all.

[@myname-dq5sw]

Great! Pulling this with inkscape!

[@fjsolis26]

Thank you for sharing your expertise!!!

[@InnerTranquility]

Holy, that's beautiful!

[@LogosByNick]

+InnerTranquility Thank you

[@ninjaspeedone]

I love the interface you are using, I changed mine to dark as well. But how did you get the icons to be so colorful?

[@LogosByNick]

I downloaded and installed an icon pack called Numix Circle

[@Sakshishandmades]

Amazing video again 👌👌👌👌

[@thirtysixzed]

Thanks man, this was very helpful. Subscribed.

[@LogosByNick]

Thanks!

[@phillipm2368]

AWESOME!AWESOME!AWESOME!AWESOME!AWESOME!AWESOME!THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!!

[@LogosByNick]

+drummer Greatest Thanks, glad you liked it!

[@bobcatt2294]

Have you produced an update to this task for the current version of Inkscape?

[@grey_mouse]

Very, very nice. ...and one day I'd like to see a not perfectly round circle. 😉 I think a circle is always perfectly round, otherwise it is an ellipse.

[@shadowstunting1447]

How do you make the outline were all the tools are black mines white?

[@LogosByNick]

I wrote an article about how to do so here: blog.logosbynick.com/design/how-to-make-inkscape-go-dark/

[@emeksestudio]

Hello, thanks for the useful video. I have a question: If I draw an object, for example, a colored circle and create a light effect with create and edit gradients (Ctrl + F1), then I can not save the object with light effect together to an object. The object and the light effect dissolve as soon as I move it, even if I try to combine it with Ctrl + G or Ctrl ++ before. how so? Thanks in advance for the answers.

[@Gray-Wolf-Media]

Nick I followed what you did and for some reason I had a black border that was around the object, so if i lowered the opacity the object was clear but still had like a wireframe

[@LogosByNick]

It's probably a stroke (outline). With the object selected, hold shift and click on the X at the bottom left corner next to the color black. That should turn it off.

[@Gray-Wolf-Media]

ok thanks

[@RachedNoureddine]

Creativity kneels Between your hands you said it's going to be hard but you made it simple, funny and brilliant. how good you are playing with shapes i had to pause the video and laugh about how blind and stupid am not to see things this way Salute you am not creative But i do a lot of copy past with to some changes hope you don't mind stealing your ideas :D

[@LogosByNick]

+Noureddine Rached Thanks. I couldn't see these things either when I first started. Now, after years of doing this, it's almost like I have a new sense for it. In time you'll be able to look at any vector graphic and see exactly how to re-draw it yourself.

[@RachedNoureddine]

Thanks Man Really keep up :)

[@lubojordanov]

Had to subscribe. Great tutorials. Is your interface style custom? Can we get it from somewhere? Looks really good!

[@LogosByNick]

+BEaSTFXbeatbox Thank you. Yes it's customize. I wrote an article outlining how to do the same if you're interested: blog.logosbynick.com/design/how-to-make-inkscape-go-dark/

[@khristopherpineda3635]

eres el mejor amigo de verdad eres mi maestro en esto

[@pinbota]

Awsome tutorial right here:)

[@LogosByNick]

+Arch Koven Thank you

[@lemmebee2385]

logo made on this software can be commercially used? I mean can I use the logo made on this software for my KZbin channel and monetize those videos?

[@LogosByNick]

Yes, as long as your designs don't violate anyone else's copyrights and/or are used as "fair use". But yes, Inkscape creations can be used commercially. I've made a lot of money using Inkscape :)