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Plentyrees [2014-05-02 07:04:22 +0000 UTC]

How do you convert the strokes to outlines? I'm new to Inkscape.

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snowfeather1 [2014-01-14 17:31:40 +0000 UTC]

hi.how do you use this on alicorns heads?

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ChainChomp2 [2013-12-18 14:59:26 +0000 UTC]

I was actually going to look up tutorials in the club to see what they looked like before I tried my own to show ~VectorizedUnicorn (who, thanks to mentions appearing in dA inboxes, should get this), who asked about the clipping technique to use on a Soarin vector, but then I saw that what I was going to cover already covered in this tutorial.

Looking at my library, my first known use of "lines clipping each other's ends off" (or otherwise mutual clipping) as a technique that I can recall was in April or so (the gray strokes of different widths intersecting in the hat), but I didn't know of the name for it until I stumbled the Mutual Clipping tutorial in September.  Back then, I just came across the hat and thought, "I think the only way I can get this line to look like it gets thinner as it intersects here is to clip it with the other line".  Maybe Parcly used it far earlier; I don't know for certain except that it's a great technique.  So far I've found it useful for Wonderbolt suits (cadet suits and the muzzles on the full-body ones), tight-fit clothes or clothes in general, stallion muzzles, fetlocks, hoofshoes, hats, sharp points on manes/tails, the hairline and manes of Doc/Meadow/Lucky, etc. ...basically whenever you'll want two lines to clip each other particularly if they are of different color or stroke width, or when points look ugly.


Okay, I might be boasting, but I'm just saying that it's a great technique to know and tutorial after tutorial on the subject only helps more vector artists understand and learn it because it has many uses as I listed (and probably more), so useful it was worth going through the older vectors in my gallery and retrofitting those things I listed with it.

The only drawbacks are that it doesn't look like there's a quick-and-easy fix to edit them later if you want to thicken or thin the stroke width, because you have to clip everything all over again , and that if the colors of the strokes are different you can especially notice a little pixelation (I can see a little bit on that last example with the orange and yellow strokes, typically it's less noticeable if the strokes are the same color).  More easily noticeable still the more lines or objects are duplicated or clipped over each other (eyes especially, though this isn't relevant to mutual clipping). So, from there I might turn the stroke under into a path and then delete some nodes or move anchors, as the stroke layered on top of it retains its shape from the clip mask.


Whether or not this is completely relevant I'm not 100% certain, but it's in the name of sharing advice and knowledge, so I hope it's okay.

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okaminekowiesel [2013-12-16 14:41:53 +0000 UTC]

Ok, I really wanted to try this technique, yet I fail at the understanding of the simplest things. Maybe I know the things mentioned, but there is no name to the things I do and therefore no connection between them. I feel like living under a stone.
Well, maybe I get some knowledge of definitions and wordings first and retry another time.

Thanks for sharing.

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ghostlikely [2013-12-14 23:54:00 +0000 UTC]

Interesting. I'll totally try this out next time I'm vectoring ^-^

Thanks a lot for sharing!

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MrBarthalamul [2013-12-11 00:12:55 +0000 UTC]

Hmmm, interesting. I had to re-read it a couple of times but I think I understand all clipping business. As for the very first part, I suppose I'll just have to play around with it until it makes sense lol

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