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mandydax — Inkscape Vector Art Tutorial
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Published: 2011-11-04 13:01:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 52645; Favourites: 881; Downloads: 1206
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Get Inkscape here: [link]Here's a tutorial on how to use Inkscape to make pony vectors! [link] is the final product of what I was demonstrating.
.txt file of the text in this tutorial here: [link]
Anyone who wants to translate can do so. Please leave a link in the comments and I'll add it here.
[link] (translated by )
SVG version of this tutorial is at [link]
Questions? Suggestions? Leave them in the comments here.
Hope it helps.
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mabye i'm to dumb to understand this or my inkscape is broken...
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Thanks for the tip about the clip mask :3 Helped me out so much when making eyes ^3^
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Very helpful but.... I can't seem to work my hooves on the lineing things. Or maybe I'm just very tired...
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Well, this tutorial was of a great help. Thanks!
I was about to ask if you had a tip about saving the toolboxes so you don't have to press SHIFT+CTRL+FL,F,W everytime, but I found it.
Just have set up the toolboxes, then save a blank svg file as default.svg in Inkscape\share\templates\
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can someone give me the link to the inkscape help section? 
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[link] is the manual.
The swatch dialog is pretty much the same as a palette is in most programs. For this tutorial, the palette needs to be set to "Auto," which you can select from a list by clicking the little left-pointing triangle seen just above the scroll bar in the second image. If you follow my palette tutorial video, you can also create and install custom palettes.
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I'm sorry..i don't fully get it.. 
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I have an old tool called Freehand MX and the method is exactly the same, vector graphics don't vary much.
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Yeah, it's mostly just interface differences.
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Hey Mandydax, thanks for making this tutorial but i have a problem...
i'm getting stuck with coloring the inside of the mane and i can't do these settings wich been showing in the tutorial...
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I probably should have shown where the tool settings bar is. It's at the top, the row below the icons. It changes based on the tool you're using. When you have the bucket fill tool selected, it will have Fill by, Threshhold, Grow/shrink by, Close gaps, and a brush icon. I hope that fixes the problem for you. If not, I need more specifics on it.
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I can't deal with the layers...
I create one called background like you explain, then another one for the mane outline, when i click on the eye to hide the background nothing happens
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Did you put anything in the background layer? Sometimes if you don't have a layer selected, it will put objects in layer 'root' which isn't in the layer list. If that happens, you have to select those objects and cut (Ctrl+X) them, then select the layer they should be in and paste in place (Ctrl+Alt+V). It's one of my biggest gripes about Inkscape.
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thanks, it was something like that my problem, now i can finish my Luna, yay
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hey MandyDax, for a while I have been trying to use Inkscape to vector some ponies, but every time I do I always get stuck at the parts where there are more pointed/ slimmer lines at the ends of the strokes (such as the ear, muzzle, ect.) How exactly do you make the nice smooth line? Every time I do the line gets to be too thin before it makes the proper point. Any info will help
Here's an example of my problem- [link]
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You'll need to add a node on either side where you want the taper to start. For an example, download the SVG of any of my pony vectors. Open it in Inkscape and use the Node Tool to look at a tapered bit like that. If you have a path selected with the Node tool and hit Ctrl+A, it will select all nodes and let you see the handles as well. Generally, I have a cusp (diamond) node at the point, and a smooth (square) node on either side where the taper should start. I find it easier to adjust the handles on each node than to try dragging the line around.
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wow thank you so much!! I really appreciate the help!!
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somebody anybody who is dutch and can good english please translate the inkscape turtoriauls for me
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ik kan het vertalen voor je ^^
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echt bedankt! ik zou het graag willen dat je het vertaalt ^^ en ook die inkscape vectors turtoriaul
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It won't be perfect, but this is what Google Translate did: [link]
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*following the tutorial* muahahahahahah OC vector recolor thing here i comez
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Used to be decent with Photoshop but have never done vectors. After reading this I realize how much stuff I forgot about how these programs work from having not used them for a while. Oh well. Inkscape here I come! Thank you for the tutorial
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This tutorial helped me a lot, but I haven't finished yet...How do I save it?
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Ctrl+S brings up the save dialog. This is for saving it as a Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG) file. Always save this version so you can edit it later. If you want a bitmap version of the image (.PNG), then use Shift+Ctrl+E to export it in that format.
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Hi Mandydax,
Thanks for the tutorial! I am just starting with Inkscape. I love it, and I learned so much for your tutorial.
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(first time trying to use inkscape) SO HARD!! O_e
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It gets easier as you get used to it.
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Hello there!
First of all, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CREATING THIS TUTORIAL! 
This tutorial has been so useful to me! Because of you & your tutorial I was able to create my first ever digital art & first ever pony. Once again, thank you.
You, my dear friend, are a genius.
Here's a link to my pony, if you'd ever like to check it out.
[link]
~Justin
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Haha, alrighty.
Here are some more!
There you go! ^.^
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By "picking" I mean clicking on the color in the image that you want. You can either just click or click and drag (which makes a circle, and the tool takes the average color of that area).
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Wow! This tutorial is helping me a LOT! I'm trying a Lyra vector using this tutorial as a reference, and lemme tell you, it's looking SO much better than my previous works!
Thank you for teaching me how to PROPERLY use Inkscape!
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You're welcome! It's so lovely to see that people are getting useful information from my wall of text.
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This is one useful wall of text. I've nearly completed a Rainbow Dash vector, and I'm so satisfied with it, that I'm gonna use Inkscape for all my future pony art! I thank you.
One thing, though- is there any way to tilt an ellipse? I can't figure out how for the life of me.
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Yeah, use the Select tool (F1) and click on the ellipse selected. This switches between grow/shrink mode and rotate/skew mode. Then just use the arrows around the edge to adjust it.
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How do you make it a 'Stroke-only path'?
Thank you
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You need to set the fill to none. Just click on the red X in the palette to do that.
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