We challenge you to:

Create a Monochrome Design.

If you are new to Inkscape, feel free to keep it simple.

Multiple entries are welcome, and please do stick around for the chat!

All abilities are invited to get involved. The complexity of your entry is down to you.

Please post your finished artwork below. 

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Please see CHALLENGE RULES before submitting your artwork

Instructions/Information

• To submit your artwork, scroll to the bottom of the page and while logged in, click the paperclip (bottom-left) to upload your image, add a description in the text box (optional) and click "Submit Reply".
• If you'd like to post work-in-progress artwork, create a thread in the "Work in Progress" section of the forum, and post your images there, with the title "[Month] [Year] [Challenge Title] WIP - [your artwork title]" (you are welcome to ask for help there if you get stuck). When finished, post the final graphic to this thread.
• There are no winners (HOWEVER, WE MAY SHARE ARTWORK WHICH STANDS OUT WITH THE INKSCAPE COMMUNITY). These challenges are intended to inspire, to encourage you to share your work and to build a supportive community.
• If you post your artwork here, you agree for us to share your artwork and use your artwork to create a banner for social media - to opt out, add "Please don't share" to your post.
• Please don't post artwork containing AI generated graphics. as it can be hard to see what you (the artist) has produced using Inkscape.
• You're encouraged to discuss and offer feedback/constructive criticism to others, but please be respectful.
• Most importantly, be creative, give your best, and have fun!

We look forward to seeing your entries!

Challenge entries (so far)

Imagining Inkscape in the crazy 70's 💋

A Hog A Dog and A Frog on A Log in A Bog in A Fog monochrome

It's my avatar. The joke or wordplay only works in my language, since mono in Spanish means monkey 😄

An alien world and its moon in a far, far away galaxy, orbiting a purple dwarf (🤪) in a binary system.
X-Rayed
 

Beautiful, @Inkonic it exudes tranquility. Even the upper left figure (I don't know if it's a Planet, Moon or what, I don't know anything about Astronomy) seems to be asleep 😊

Although it may not look like it, I promise there is only blue, well, lots of blues 😁

Red 2024

@mrks9 Ha ha, I know the craters on the moon look kind of silly🤪

Here's a positive message in two versions:

Under Water 🌊

@mrks9 Nice one, Marcos! I like its blue lighting, brightness and shading.

The Voronoi pattern came in handy for your under water background.

Iniatially, I also tried to use it for the rock under the lighthouse but I wasn't very pleased with the result. Probably I didn't try hard enough.

Some really interesting submissions this month. I like that there is so much variance in the entries.

@Inkonic Thank you. I used voronoi to give it some texture, but I converted the pattern to bitmap and then used trace bitmap. I separated all the cells and used the color randomize extension. I just wanted some color variation in a subtle way.

I made an attempt to make some leaves in monochromatic orange scale, inspired by the leaves outside that already are beginning to change color.

@mrks9 Hey Marcos. Next time just turn the Voronoi Pattern to path. There is no need to make a bitmap copy of it.

You can do it easily this way: watch short Y/T video

Thanks @Inkonic I hadn't thought of that, it's faster. Although for my particular case break appart would not work for me. I'd better explain it to you in the video answer 😊

@mrks9  But you don't have to break it apart. I just did it for the video purposes, to show that even breaking apart is possible. If you noticed, after I broke it to strokes, I took steps back to undo the breaking and bring the object back to its first unpatterned state.
So, repeat the steps without breaking it apart. You only have to do: -Object > Pattern > Pattern to object.
-From that moment on you can do whatever you like with the ex-pattern because it is all combined strokes. You can even turn the strokes to a single path, e.g.

@Inkonic Okay, so I got it wrong. Thanks for the clarification 👌

Big  Orange for the thirsty

It's hot as hell around here. We're melting 😰 😁

Titolo: Paesaggio

inspirada na minha filha que curte muito estrelas e corações e a cor azul.

@tamburrinoroberto & @PAOLACASTRO Welcome!🙂👍

Plants seem to be popular in here and especially monsteras...
Here's my Monstera with some clipping for certain shadows, a great deal of power strokes and a lot of Noise-Fill combined with linear gradient (radial for the wall).
The whole thing is made from scratch and is 100% Inkscape crafted.
X-Rayed 

Beautiful! 💯

Thank you Marcos, I'm very glad that you liked it😃

Scream

@mrks9 Edvard would have been happy with this🧐

@Inkonic Ha,ha, I'm not sure he liked the fact that I showed the uvula (I think that's what it says in English) of his character 😁 Anyway, it's just a joke 😊

Broken. One of the advantages of playing with Inkscape without expecting anything, is that sometimes things happen or effects happen that are not so bad 😄

@mrks9 This is not "not so bad". This is beautiful, I like it! 🔥 

Thanks @Inkonic 😊

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creatures at the door

billy thought he was dreaming

his sheets now ruined

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Knocking out two challenges with one artwork.

#inkscape-challenge-august-2024

and

#100-days-of-haiku

Poor Billy! 😆

Breaking the pattern. Abstract illustration from an Inkscape pattern using the same technique as the previous piece I shared here. 

@tp Welcome to this section, tp! Your entry is beautiful! It's only a pity that it's not pinned! To get it pinned, next time (or you can still edit your submission), do THIS

Some amazing work. I'm really enjoying the entries!

If your image was embedded in the your comment or set as an attachment, I have set them to gallery mode so they are visible in the showcase above.

Pacer
Challenge Coordinator

My entry! I saw that brown wasn't a popular choice, so I chose to do my entry based on that! This is also a fun tarot card, I may make more if people like them. If the SVG file itself is needed, let me know (this is my first challenge).

-Katsgraphics

@katsgraphics That's one beautiful beamish brown baked bean, Kats! Hi and welcome✋
Yes, you may and should make more of those -and not only those if you want to.
The svg file is not needed, but personally I would suggest you to upload your future files in webp or jpg. Png's i.g. take more from your quota, needed to be able to upload beautiful coffee beans.

Thank you @Inkonic! Still a bit new to creating posts in the forum 😊