Here is an awesome tutorial from Aaron Nieze at the Shmoggo Blog. In this short tutorial, Aaron covers an array of inkscape Basics while creating a vector based company logo.
Logo Design using Inkscape
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Category Archives: introductory
10 of the Best Inkscape Tutorials
Here is an old list of 10 of the Best Inkscape Tutorials from back in 2009. All the links should work now, again.
Drawing a Kokeshi Doll — a tutorial for inkscape beginners
creating icons with inkscape – a basic workflow
Here is another great tutorial for everyone’s favourite open source vector graphics editor. (that would be inkscape…)
Today’s tutorial outlines a basic workflow for creating, tweaking and exporting icons with inkscape. If you need some more icon tutorials check out the icon category
simple “starburst” effect tutorial.
This tutorial details how to achieve the simple “starburst” effect using inkscape. The method in this tutorial shows how to do this by manually creating clones and rotating them, which is not the most efficient way to achieve this effect. Check out the Official Inkscape Tutorial, “Tips and Tricks” for how to use Tiled Clones to make this effect quicker and easier to achieve.
using inkscape to illustrate tomatoes
here is yet another awesome tutorial from kalaalog, this subject of illustration this time is a bunch of tomatoes.
a simple drop shadow tutorial for inkscape
If you are looking for a simple technique for creating shadows of simple objects, this is your tutorial.
How to Illustrate A Reddish Pink Hibiscus Flower Using Inkscape
here is another awesome tutorial from the equally fantastic kalaalog. This tutorial demonstrates how to Illustrate A Reddish Pink Hibiscus Flower in Inkscape. As always, the link to the tutorial is after the jump…
Drawing a manga character using inkscape.
While this video is not a tutorial per se, it provides a great insight into how a more complicated inkscape drawing is constructed. It is basically a step – by – step construction of all the objects in the drawing put into a neat little video. Below is a thumb of the finished product that can be viewed at the artist’s deviantart page.
The video (hosted on youtube) is embedded after the thumb, so you may not be able to view it if you are reading though an feed reader.
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Create an impressive stick man cartoon character / avatar
Here is another tutorial / in depth guide on creating cartoon characters by one of my favourite inkscape tutorialists, David Shaw. A while back, he published an awesome guide to creating a simple cartoon character in the tutorial Slime to Start.
This time he has created another in-depth guide to character creation with Inkscape, and this time the goal is to create a cute cartoon stick man with a style similar to the Order of the Stick by Rich Burlew. Once again, David goes into immense detail of his entire creative process, and the result is a great introduction to inkscape with an awesome result.
For those of you interested in cartooning in inkscape, make sure you check out the following screenshot by Inkscape artist / developer, John Bintz (of Moment of Clarity fame.) It outlines the workflow that John goes through tracing, tweaking and inking his cartoons. Note that the screenshot is done before the 0.46 paint bucket tool came out (which i am pretty sure john had a hand in developing) so cartooning in inkscape is even easier.
Drawing a compass graphic with inkscape.
Here is a neat workflow showing how to create a fairly detailed compass graphic by adding and editing simple shapes. This is a great tutorial for inkscape beginners, as it is well communicated, and intoduces simple inkscape operations like node editing. As always the link to the tut is after the break.
draw a snowman with inkscape
this is a simple tutorial that shows you how to illustrate a simple snowman using inkscape.
drawing a simple axe using inkscape.
a Quick Guide to Inkscape
this is an awesome quick guide into some of the basics of inkscape.
it is a great introductory guide and a great quick reference guide for inkscape
it covers:
- working with paths
- working with objects
- working with groups
- working with clips and paths
- working with layers
- working with gradients
postage stamps in inkscape – a tutorial by nicu
here is another awesome tutorial by nicu. In it he demonstrates how to create simple postage stamps using Inkscape. What is really nice about this tutorial is that nicu demonstrates the 3 different ways of aligning circles around the edge of the rectangle to get the perforated edge effect that postage stamps have…
this tutorial is well worth a look.
draw a feather
awesome peacock feather tutorial
an awesome, detailed step by step for illustrating a peacock feather using inkscape. (special thanks to Khiraly for suggesting this one…)
shiny arrows tutorial: by nicu
here is a cool little tutorial that tells you how to create the shiny / glossy arrow using inkscape. This is great for inkscape newbies that want to learn the inkscape by producing a simple, yet still pretty glossy arrow.
On a side note, if you like this tutorial, or achieve the glossy effect via a different workflow, make sure you write a tutorial, and post it on your blog/website. Its good to see other people’s workflow in the form of tutorials… 
(click here for more info on my blatant tutorial push…)
Check it out, and leave a comment!
simple starfish tutorial
here is a super-simple tutorial for creating a starfish character in inkscape.
great for a beginner to learn easy object manipulation.
inkscape interface introduction
this tutorial is a fairly detailed overview of the inkscape interface.
it basically covers what you see when you first open inkscape.
Inkscape Tutorial by heathenx: Create a Paper Clip
A video tutorial by heathenx that shows you how to make a simple paperclip in inkscape. This tutorial also serves as a good introduction into basic path and curve manipulation.
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Inkscape Tutorial by heathenx: Create a File Folder
here is yet another cool video tutorial from heathenx. In this one, he demonstrates how to create a simple yet still pretty good looking file folder.
Inkscape Tutorial by heathenx: Create Tiled Clones
here is another cool video tutorial by heathenx.
In it he demonstrates basic use to the tiled clones feature in inkscape. with the tiled clones he creates a simple checkerboard background.
Official Inkscape Tutorial: Tips and Tricks
This tutorial is the webpage version of the “Tips and Tricks” tutorial that comes bundled with inkscape. To view these tutorials as an SVG just go to Help>Tutorials in inkscape.
It covers the following tips:
Radial placement with “Tile Clones”, How to do slicing (multiple rectangluar export areas), Non-linear gradients, Excentric radial gradients, Aligning to the center of the page, Cleaning up the document, Clipping or masking a bitmap, Hidden features and the XML editor, Stamping, Pen tool tricks, Entering Unicode values, Using the grid for drawing icons, Object rotation, Open dialog as an object palette, Bitmap drop shadows, Placing text on a path, Selecting the original, Window off-screen recovery, Transparency, gradients and PostScript export
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Official Inkscape Tutorial: Calligraphy
This tutorial is the webpage version of the “Calligraphy” tutorial that comes bundled with inkscape. To view these tutorials as an SVG just go to Help>Tutorials in inkscape.
It is a fairly in depth introduction into the calligraphy tool and its various options.
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