Inkscape Tutorial - Creating a Mosaic Effect with Pattern along Path

[@CTRL_SMarcos]

Great work, thanks for the video. Not only beautiful, but built in a very smart way 🐠💯

[@2dgameartguru]

Glad you liked it! I have my moments ;)

[@jdrsant0s]

Despite being a very laborious technique, it has an extraordinarily beautiful effect. I always learn something new from your videos. Thank you. 🖖

[@2dgameartguru]

Thank you very much! I am glad you enjoyed it!

[@wimdg4230]

That is amazing !! 🤩🤩

[@Inkonic-iz1yi]

Great work, both artistically and technically!💯👌

[@2dgameartguru]

I am glad you liked it. It means a lot coming from you! ;)

[@shaanbaghi6670]

Nice! coloring process is done so good;

[@2dgameartguru]

Thank you... It was fun... even with all the stuffing up with the dropper tool. It ended up looking mesmerizing in the video.

[@AdamBelis]

Cool video and very nice result .

[@2dgameartguru]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ruud9767]

Great! Thanks for the video, it's very informative.

[@2dgameartguru]

You are welcome!

[@benzflynn]

Fabulous. Just what I wanted for a logo design.

[@2dgameartguru]

Glad you like it!

[@benzflynn]

@@2dgameartguru The bit fazing me was the "grouting" on the individual "tiles". I originally did this simply by putting a grey border around each piece of tiling. I tried using Filters > Bevel > Raised Ridge to give a 3-D effect at the edge of each tile. But with this, it only _raises_ the level of the areas between the tiles. I thought that I could find some way of making the grey border be transparent but could not find any easy way to do this.

[@2dgameartguru]

I would use the sketch shapes [coloured black in my video] and give those a lighter colour and add a drop shadow to the tiles [as well as the 3D/ bevel for depth].

[@2dgameartguru]

Something like this? imgur.com/Hwtlcc1

[@benzflynn]

@@2dgameartguru Link not working - maybe a typo.

[@CelticOneDesign]

Playing around now with your technique. If you want more randomness of your tiles you can apply extensions>modify path>jitter nodes after you break the tiles up. settings: shift nodes=off, shift node handles = on. Play around with distribution and displacentment. Just don't select too many tiles at one time - crash city.

[@2dgameartguru]

I tried it when doing the butterfly and it did not look quite right and crashed [a few times].

[@CelticOneDesign]

@@2dgameartguru Let me play around with the roughen path effect. Of course you also have filter>distort>roughen effect as well but that is a pixel effect and not a true vector manipulation.

[@CelticOneDesign]

@@2dgameartguru Yup - the roughen path effect seems more stable. Was able to do 400 tiles at a time. Combine the tiles then apply the path effect then break them apart.

[@ayoubmo7med452]

حقا انت فنان يا سيدي

[@2dgameartguru]

Thank you!

[@CelticOneDesign]

I have seen several techniques for doing this but I think your method would be suitible for my Celtic designs. I would simply do a single knotwork cord. Convert it to a symbol. Reuse the symbol throught the design where that particular knot cord is used. Move to the next cord pattern. When I get a chance - will try it. Thanks!

[@2dgameartguru]

Sounds very doable! Good luck!

[@KalponicGames]

does Inkscape have a mirror tool like Krita or any other software?

[@2dgameartguru]

Vector tools rarely have a mirror function [like the bitmap based tools e.g. Krita] but it's easy to create a mirror effect by using clones. Create a rectangle, group it, make a clone, flip the clone, and reposition it to match. As long as you work within the source group [or paste content inside] it will be mirrored in the clone.

[@KalponicGames]

@@2dgameartguru flash had it. It's a nice feature. Does affinity designer have it?

[@amiralighaforeyanrad885]

Hi I have a favor to ask could you make an updated videos of inkscape tutorials for gave development??

[@2dgameartguru]

I have been a bit slack on the game art tutorials lately - as I stopped working on games 2 years ago - but need to get back into it. Any videos in particular you would like me to update?

[@amiralighaforeyanrad885]

@@2dgameartguru hi so I just made like 3 characters in inkscape my self but they are flat and boring I kinda need a tutorial that shows how to do platformer and rpg style character with some tips and tricks to make it look nice from a beginner like my self I would be greatly appreciated

[@WILKERALLAC]

Nice

[@2dgameartguru]

Thanks