Inkscape Tutorial: Geometric Line Art Designs with Live Path Effects Tiling

[@imdxpertm]

Rick, I would really like to thank you and appreciate your efforts to share new improvements in Inkscape. As always you are a great teacher.🙏

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you very much. I love this community.

[@life-n7e]

Something new every day, good tutorial

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks so much! 😀

[@Grant_S_M]

Unbelievable that this software is free. There's so much inside! Great lesson. Thank you, Rick :)

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks! Seriously, I am so grateful.

[@sylvainbaril3909]

Beautiful! It's always interesting and pleasant to follow you along in your step-by-step method. Thank you!

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks so much! I love making these.

[@TheChazk]

Super cool video Rick. I truly appreciate your methodology and instructorship. This was fun!

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you very much. I love doing these.

[@brain_respect_and_freedom]

Thank you so much for the split elements👍it's a game changer😎

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks!! It was stumping me for a while, but now it's so easy.

[@AidanJuly]

When I saw the title of the video I thought of how complicated it could be, then I saw the video length and thought, Rick figured out how to make it easy, thank you!

[@IronEchoDesign]

It's the new Tiling Path Effect that does all the work. Haha. So easy!

[@SachchidanandPrasad1729]

Thanks Rick for making these beautiful tutorials. I am a geometer (topologist). I have to draw a lot of pictures, for example, torus or double torus, and many more mathematical pictures. I will be grateful if you can make one tutorial on these kind of things.

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks so much! I wish Inkscape had more choices on the 3D tool. Right now it's just 3D boxes, but I could see them expanding the feature to allow different shapes. One tool that may help with double torus designs is the mesh gradient. It let's you add shading to create a 3D effect. Still a little difficult compared to true 3D rendering software.

[@SachchidanandPrasad1729]

@@IronEchoDesign Thanks for your reply.

[@chrischris9221]

Great Lesson as always!

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks very much!

[@graphguy]

Thanks Rick, you always do a beautiful job instructing on how to use the latest features of Inkscape! Of particular noteworthiness is your ability to pack a lot of succent information in a video of reasonable length!

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you!! I had a whole middle section with other shapes but it dragged on and I was bored to tears editing so I cut it for time.

[@Paulo-Dom]

Excellent video, congratulations for the content.

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you so much!

[@multiforc271]

loved it ! thanks for sharing. Please share more about these parametric and geometric features, it is a link between art and engineering. Sorry for asking this before searching for it, maybe yo already have videos; can you make some flowers ? i mean really nice flowers not just something stampe to 2D, I know inkscape is not the software for having a 3D flower in it, but it would be nice to know, how to make a beautiful rose, with natural twists and details.

[@Hctrgrc]

Hi! Awesome video! Really shows the simplicity and at the same time complexity of this effects. I ws wondering, I'm new to this, is there a way to offset the shapes? In a way so that the smalles hexagon is located at a different location different than the center? And kind of get this pattern effect in a different direction other than "inwards" or "outwards".

[@philipp.dauenhauer]

As always a great tutorial!

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you so much!

[@mistercorzi]

Thanks - excellent informative video - especially liked the introduction of colour gradients. Great fun

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks so much!!

[@cedrickgooding5270]

Just awesome!👌

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks!!

[@ofthechase6962]

wow thanks sir

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you!!

[@nikkihstokes]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks!!

[@GhulamMustafa-k2d]

You are great teacher sir. Always touching the fundamentals along the way while doing complex designs . Would request you to do a comprehensive video on calligraphy tool for producing professional calligraphy especially Arabic.

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you so much! I think this is a great video idea. I will need to practice first. I’m thinking of using one of the grids to practice strokes and then experimenting with styles. Thanks again and I’ll try to get the hang of it and see if I can make it work.

[@geoffphil]

Beautiful! Perhaps you could show how to do tessellations involving different regular polygons in a future video!

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks! And that's an awesome idea. (Had to look up tessellation) I'll work on some designs.

[@tanalee229]

Quick. Simple. Pretty. Thanks! : )

[@IronEchoDesign]

So simple. Thanks!

[@steveferguson1232]

This is cool. I’ve been learning alot

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you!!

[@steveferguson1232]

@@IronEchoDesign Rick, my wife and I are retired and we do alt of crafting. We are tired of buying bad designs and files off etsy. I told her I want to learn Inkscape, then I found your channel. I’m probably one of your oldest subscribers being 64, but I’m learning a lot from you. So thank you for what you do and continued success with your channel

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks so much, Steve! One of my goals for even starting the channel was to help show what Inkscape can do so people can design what they wanted with ease.

[@scotttaylor3664]

Really enjoy watching your videos. Have noticed you don't seem to have a tutorial for how to create a page curl. Would love to see how you approach this and if it's even possible with any of the path effects. Thanks.

[@_justgrant]

Thank you for yet another great video! The other day I was playing around with some sublimation printing. Is there a way to use a printer ink profile on InkScape? Also, is there a way to fade an imported JPG to say, 50% transparent, and then lock it in that way? Once exported it will regain its full opacity. Thank you, and have a great day!

[@IronEchoDesign]

Great questions! I've got to start getting familiar with sublimation printing. I know a lot of people come to Inkscape so they can print in the real world or do laser cutting projects. If anyone reading this knows about setting printer ink profiles in Inkscape, could you chime in? For the jpg to 50% transparent, have you tried exporting the design as a PNG?

[@urdujasoosinovels800]

Can you please do a tutorial on path effects alone? That would be very much informative

[@jocargua]

Amazing !!!!

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you!!

[@Born4Eploration]

I dont have option for turning the page black and keeping the background white, also in my inkscape I dont have "tiling" pathe effect. Can you tell me which version do you use?

[@IronEchoDesign]

For sure. I'm using Inkscape 1.2. The Tiling Path Effect is new. There's an older video on this channel that shows the same result with Create Tiled Clones instead if you want to make these without switching Inkscape versions.

[@LetsPlayOverGame]

Exelent!

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you!!

[@fonzjedelarosa7587]

Thanks 🙏

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you!

[@mikeB61982]

Fantasic Rick, thanks for keeping us up to speed, love your teaching style. any possibility of a video showing how to create bubble/puff style text 👍

[@robothejo5414]

Waawwww amazing, 🎉

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thanks!!

[@marxman1010]

What is the inkscape version? With 1.2.2, tiling seems not working as in the video.

[@IronEchoDesign]

This is 1.2. What is going amiss?

[@marxman1010]

@@IronEchoDesign The center of the overlapping hexagon is offset from the center of the outermost hexagon. Also tried other parameters of tiling, but it was nearly impossible to create overlapped hexagons like in the video.

[@IronEchoDesign]

Do you have more than one Page or have you used the MultiPage tool in the Inkscape window you are in? If so, I found a bug. The node used to drag the shapes all on top of each other resets ina maddening way and ruins it. Try opening a completely new Inkscape window with no Path Effects.

[@marxman1010]

@@IronEchoDesign I tried the same approach of handling tiling on a completely new Inkscape window, but there were no changes. Additionally, I noticed that the snap feature was not working properly. It was impossible to move the node to the exact position as in the video.

[@IronEchoDesign]

Path effects can be sticky. I experienced the same error where the node could not be stacked properly. I've noticed newer additions to Inkscape have bugs at first. The Tiling feature is an example of this.

[@catcraft06]

Thanks

[@IronEchoDesign]

Thank you!

[@shubisimidodo2104]

Amazing..

[@hakimabelbenyoucef4141]

not stable with my M1

[@Dennis-uh2cu]

leuk

[@dennyskerb4992]

👍👍