Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Creating symbol font in Inkscape




Symbol font has nothing in common with symbol set of alphabet letters. It consists of symbols that can not be read and it is often used as a decoration. For modern web developers such font become the real escape from the infinite routine, which is connected with the preparation of icons (for example, social network icons) to display on different devices. When there is only one symbol - it seems not so difficult. But if you have several dozen of such symbols? Thanks to symbol fonts there is no need to save one file in different resolutions.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Drawing in perspective with Inkscape



When you come across with perspective for the first time, in the beginning it seems that this artistic tool is very difficult to master. But in fact, everything is much easier — you just have to understand what it represents. And eventually tenacity and practice will do the trick.

To begin with, let’s discuss a little theory. Perspective is used for drawing three-dimensional object in the two-dimensional plane. Its use allows to visually enhance your picture. There are many types of perspectives, but we will examine the creation of the most basic ones.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Practice result and next tutorial


Here is my practice result drawing in isometric projection in Inkscape.   


The feedback from the previous tutorial was absolutely amazing. So right now I’m working on the next one - “Drawing in perspective with Inkscape”.