The Complete Guide To Line Drawing In Inkscape

[@kenyenmusic7548]

THANK YOU SO MUUUUUCH man i never thought it would be so hard to find a good tutorial on how to trace things perfectly.

[@nhenghali1916]

I thought I was already very familiar with Inkscape (thanks in large parts to many of your videos), but a video like this is something I wish I had seen years ago. Thanks!

[@NYProductions]

same thought

[@SizzlingSocks]

CATRA PFP CATRA PFP

[@publiogidoni5724]

You make my inkscape so much easier to deal with the fact that if I cant remember what does what because of one million things going on in my head I look up your vids. Thank you so much for all of your time I am beyond appreciative.

[@muhammedfarispk1687]

Hey Nick, You have a great skill of conveying the content to the audience. Really love it.❤

[@aeroegnr]

Been using inkscape for a while and didn't know about these, thank you!

[@mikeysalais1313]

Thanks for all your hard work. I always learn something.

[@alcg3981]

I found your channel when looking for GIMP advice. Some of the tools on Inkscape and Photoshop resemble those used by GIMP. I'm not a pro but as an ex Graphic Designer in the 70s - mid-80s when computers were just beginning to assist us, I keep wanting to flex my muscles so to speak😅! I like your teaching style.

[@naomih4716]

Just what I needed as a beginner. Thank you!

[@JoseBYOB]

I always manage to learn something new with these videos.

[@JC-ig4xy]

You have the best inkscape videos!

[@jjseabra2]

Great video, saved it for future reference. Explained exactly what I was looking for in an easy to understand way.

[@wallacesousuke1433]

Good gosh I knew Inkscape was good but damn, it's way more powerful than I could've ever imagined!

[@vinaysurendran3338]

This tut is GOLD! 🔥

[@chuckt.9122]

Wow you saved me from an Adobe subscription! I’m so glad I ran into your channel 💯🔥

[@saerdtuner]

thank you so much for this tutorial, this is so clear and direct, best stuff

[@TheAlison1456]

Wow. Your voice is super impressive.

[@mars-cs4uk]

You're a very good teacher and I learned a lot. Thanks. Subscribed and book marked. Also, please make a video about how to set the colors to fill, font colors etc. It's confusing. I just started learning few days back and tons of options are these to explore. It's really fun.

[@altrogeruvah]

Great tutorial as always, Nick!

[@saskiasia]

Your recent tutorials are such a great addition to your Master Course! Thank you! If you ever need any suggestions, I would love some simple (or advanced) Halloween and/or Christmas objects, shapes etc., how they're made in Inkscape. Those seasons are coming and those themes are very popular. Thx again!

[@mrerrol69]

this tutorial is beautiful...I love it

[@alexhetherington8028]

Thanks for these amazing tutorials

[@MrOnosa]

That was helpful. I was hoping to learn what the other menu buttons do after the line has been drawn. Like, the add intersection or smooth button. Edit: Oh! You have a tutorial for this as well. Perfect! Thank you

[@pranjalsaxena1548]

Thanks a lot Nick

[@martinaplackova6191]

Thank you! I need this. 😇

[@PaulG.x]

Excellent video! In GIMP I created .png of my signature with a clear background for superimposing into documents. I'm going to repeat that in Inkscape to achieve a better result.

[@devinhaynes8664]

Great tutorial as always. At some point you should do a series where you take a famous logo and show how you could create it in Inkscape

[@PriyaDharshini-qz1lv]

Thank you

[@dingolovethrob]

succinct and superb tutorial.

[@aseeltariq8119]

I’m I the only one who have this problem when I draw something it supposed to look like this ⭕️ right? You can choose to fill it with a color or not,the problem is when I draw something it looks like this 🔴 already filled with a color do you know how do I solve this problem ?

[@MDK-224]

at the bottom left where it says fill above you will see small drawings, press on the small drawing with the Cross

[@10n02com]

@@MDK-224 I still don't understand how to do that. If I unclick the Fill, my line disappears. I just want a simple black line.

[@10n02com]

I think I understood. on the right, in "Fill and Stroke", "Fill" needs to be disable, and "Stoke paint" needs to have a color

[@LethalLuggage]

​@@10n02com as the person above said: the outside rim is your Stroke, and the inside color is the fill. Sounds like you have fill set to a color and stroke set to none by default.

[@60CAL]

one year later * do still need help asee

[@priyanthisilva1934]

Thank you.

[@rahilarious]

Love your vids. Keep it up

[@parigim]

Great video. Thank you. Basic skills explained so well anticipating the difficulties of beginners. One question I have is when I replicate the same line in Inkscape 1.2, it shows too many nodes which makes it clumsy to handle. When you draw you get only a few nodes. Is there any config setting to achieve that?

[@Glorious_Kim_Jong_Un]

I just searched this and your video up. Exactly what I was looking for, thanks! Now wheres my like.

[@GustAvo-qy9xk]

Thank you!!!

[@jamalnasir930]

Very useful

[@MaisieStirfry]

What a helpful video--thank you so much. I do have one quick question: when I'm using the Bezier tool to trace over a pencil sketch, and I want to adjust my line by grabbing onto the nodes, it seems only some nodes act as handles, so some I can't grab onto. Am I doing something wrong? Thank you again!

[@geoffphil]

I learned quite a lot from this video thanks Nick. I still struggle with the Bezier pen drawing curves in standard mode, or changing to/from corner nodes/smooth nodes (ctrl L, ctrl U?). Will try spline method. Can a spline curve be converted to a conventional node/gradient curve? Object to path?

[@LogosByNick]

Yes, so can spiro paths. Just select it once you're done and go to Path > Object To Path

[@collwyr]

has something changed drastically in the 2 months this video was made?, I just downloaded the program 10 minutes ago and it's become impossible to draw a straight line, it's just invisible until I had a third point, in that case it just connects the three corners (from the two lines) together to make a 2D shape. what the heck am I missing here? I've changed no settings, everything is default from installation.

[@LuxuriantCarrot]

I figured it out. When the pencil is selected, in the top right, there will be two bits of text: Fill: (none) and Stroke: (none). Click "Stroke" and it will open settings. Within the pencil settings, change the "Style of new objects" from "Last used style" to "This tool's own style". Close out and it should work. Really strange that this isnt the default.

[@gazoinksboo]

@@LuxuriantCarrot thanks for this!!

[@LuxuriantCarrot]

@@gazoinksboo Just to add on: This might mess up changing colours in the future, and you might have to set it back to last used. You'll figure it out once you try to draw something twice and it doesn't use the same style

[@Narrativenow]

than you man @@LuxuriantCarrot

[@tranthithaovy5406]

It helped me 😢😢😢😢😢

[@The_Penguin_City]

En el manejo de líneas puedes variar el tipo de nodo para mejor control.

[@Amipotsophspond]

so something with the draw curved lines it really changes a lot with "smoothing" section set to 60 vs set to 8 sometimes professionals forget all the many tweaked settings that they set up.

[@excellinkus]

Nick, which version of Inkscape are you using in this tutorial? I'm using version I can't find the BSpline option.

[@mistias9813]

How are you erasing your drawing. What button or key are you using? New to Inkscape.

[@steezmcqueen89]

@logosbynick is there a way to use the pen tool to quickly customize type like in Illustrator?

[@jakemorden8544]

Thanks for the great content. Is there a solution for CMYK mode? I'm new to inkscape I'm I'm using it to design book covers, in general the designs I make using inkscape will ne printed like tshirts, card posters, mugs, wall arts and CMYK is required.

[@LogosByNick]

Unfortunately no. Lack of CMYK is one of Inkscape's downsides.

[@jakemorden8544]

@@LogosByNick so what's the solution? I don't want to use another program to correct the colours. That's to much work

[@LogosByNick]

@@jakemorden8544 There are workarounds like saving as PDF and then opening it with Scribus and converting to CMYK. You can also export as a rasterized file and then convert the rasterized file using Krita. I have a couple of videos showing how to do this if you want to search my channel for "cmyk", they may be a bit dated but should be relevant still.

[@jakemorden8544]

@@LogosByNick thanks, I was trying to avoid this extra work, but it seems there's no way.

[@geckosonic]

Do you have a video on how to cut lines that are closed? I can't seem to make anything work. Thanks

[@francootaola9172]

Nick, I saw in a video of adobe's soft that the person recommended to whenever you can when doing curved lines place the nodes in a form that the handles of it are or vertical or horizontal that makes it more natural. What do you thing in that regarding?

[@CuRiOuS_MiNd886]

Hi i dont know what happened to my inkscape whenever i draw something with pen tool automatically fill with colour like in this video when you drew with pen tool it is only the lines in screen but in my case the colour automatically fills and it concertos into shape

[@eitantal726]

Lifetime access for one-time pay, eh? Sold!

[@The_Penguin_City]

Parallel or orthogonal?

[@isanaluki4806]

is there way to stylize the line to become like pencil line ?

[@6ch6ris6]

everytime I draw a line an object appers but there is no actual line. a colour is selected, but no line appears. only when I add a contour I can actually see a line

[@tjbrooks_me]

How does one cut the end bits of a straight line?? I have a rectangle and then a line with 5 px width bisecting it at an angle so that it goes corder to corner. However, the ends of the line are scare and hang over the outside of the original rectangle so that it looks like there's two triangles on either edge of the main rectangle on the corners. I want those removed so that it is only the 5 px thick line over the main rectangle and no bleeding edges... Hope that was a clear question but figuring this out is driving me insane...

[@issolomissolom3589]

Silly question though when to use the pencil and when to use bezier 😅

[@LogosByNick]

Pencil is good for freehand drawing. The Bezier Pen is better for tracing and creating precise line placements.

[@lucienelson]

How can i set it to see your whole screen. I'm casting it from my Android to my Sony TV. I cant see the left hand side 😢

[@paulkenjopedraza4437]

why is my pencil tool making shapes instead of lines help

[@cattaraugustonawanda4426]

Nice video BUT I tried drawing lines and as soon as a finish a line the line disappears and a rectangle of dashed lines appears. What am I doing wrong?

[@_Praanaa_]

the lines i draw forms a semi circle,not able to explain the issue with the right words but hope you understand, how do i correct it

[@Blueman9010]

Why when i use my pen tool and connect my nodes it fills up in side?

[@rhomis]

Because it is stupid. I have the same problem too.

[@megatron3800]

I might leave Illustrator here 🙆🏽‍♂️

[@isabellefischer5145]

I'm very frustrated. 53 Seconds in the video, I've selected the pencil too, the Bezier path tool, and drawn a line, but I can't see it. I've tried to find out how to draw it in a different color, or maybe it's because the stroke and the fill aren't defined, but I can't figure out how to do that. Which one of your videos could help me to set things up so I can follow this one?

[@isabellefischer5145]

Ok. Now I did it but have no clue how. I'm a beginner with Inkscape, but I know Adobe Photoshop Elements very well, and I'm passable with AutoCAD. So I'm not totally ignorant...

[@Narrativenow]

same problem help me

[@simouric4906]

Same problem here @@Narrativenow

[@QuadrellEvans]

Sooo mine is not working correctly I did what you said at 42secs and it just goes blank. Do you have any suggestions? Any would be much appreciated

[@simouric4906]

Same problem here

[@bg307]

How can I change my inkscape to look simple like in this video,?

[@LogosByNick]

Go to View and enable the Wide Screen option

[@diyaahamdane9882]

i tred exactly as you said but whatever the mod i choose it is the same they don't work

[@inkscape_dm]

Hai

[@brain_respect_and_freedom]

👍

[@norabodonyi5175]

In my Inkscape the nodes have become very large, they cover the line itself. How can I reduce their size?

[@LogosByNick]

Open the Preferences menu (Control + Shift + P) click on Interface and there is a setting for changing the node size. I just uploaded a video on it last week if you want to check that out.

[@norabodonyi5175]

@@LogosByNick Thank you, succeeded!

[@jerrylitthachack1464]

my lines are not showing up, just when i make more strokes. But then they turn into shapes. Please help haha

[@UwuuWU383]

For some reason, every time I try and draw it automatically connects back to the starting point, making it a shape instead of a line. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[@UwuuWU383]

FML, finally found it. Had to disable fill in the top right corner (why is that a default setting)

[@muhammadkhaidirsyafei4943]

cocok ini hifdzi jirayut hahay

[@WhitbyStuff]

Man, I've tried the thing at 5:20 for an hour and it just does not to the same thing for me.

[@rhomis]

I draw a Zig Zag line and it fills up with crap.

[@semvanduren]

My lines are invisible

[@Paul-A01]

Less than 60 seconds in and I'm lost. The pencil tool is creating filled shapes, not lines.

[@HackeemSoleyn]

Top right, u see fill: and stroke :. Click that then under style of nre objects, select : this tool's own style

[@adamwielowski3910]

💃 'promo sm'

[@XYZ-qb7iu]

It not work

[@mistacoolie8481]

interesting

[@Fragu1308]

My Spiro isn't smooth.🥲