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Beginners' Questions Recreating my personal branding - Parallel angles and even spacing; Symmetry
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    Prenihility Prenihility @Prenihility

    I'm a pro a Illustrator and I wanted to try some new Vector software. I use my personal branding design as a challenge for myself to test out new software as I think It covers basically everything i need to know where it comes to symmetrical drawing and angles with the Pen tool. Or Bezier tool as it's known in Inkscape. I tried Gravit and quickly uninstalled it. So far I'm in a love/hate relationship with Inkscape. Some features are nice but there's just no intuitive way of creating lines with even spacing, same parallel angles, etc. There are no guides that follow perpendicular nodes,  etc. I will post a pic of my logo, and if someone could actually make a video of how to recreate it in Inkscape, that would be neat. I snapped guides to certain lines to create them again, but then you have the issue of making them the same length. And then on top of that, it never ends up being the same height because it seems to be snapping at guide origins. But I use the nodes as guide origins from the parallel angle. There's no reason for it to be a different height. There's really a reason why Illustrator is an industry standard. It's fantastic software. If someone can recreate this logo and show how it's done. OR point me in the direction of a tutorial that covers drawing lines at the same angle, with spaces and same length, you get the idea; that would be great. I'm getting frustrated.

     

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    inklinea inklinea @inklinea⛰️
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    I am a terrible artist, but what do you think to this. Took 11 mins.

    <edit> hmm don't seem to be able to upload today.

    <edit> removed the layer containing the bitmap you posted - okay now.

    No grid used to make this, just align and distribute, copy / paste, bit of node editing. Flipped the outer piece, snapped both pieces to the edge of the 'V' tapped the arrow key until it matched the spacing of the bitmap then tapped the other piece the exact number of keystrokes on the arrow key to place.

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    Tyler Durden Tyler Durden @TylerDurden
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    Attached is one way. Less than 2 min.

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    Freezr Freezr @freezr
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    @TylerDurden 👏 👏 👏

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    Prenihility Prenihility @Prenihility

    After I posted I saw my image came out really janky. 😂 It does NOT have those proportions. It's literally what @inklinea made. Minus the colour. It took some frustration and extra time but I did it. I guess I should have specified @TylerDurden using the Bezier Pen Tool. Although I will have to study that little video of yours a bit to see how shapes work. I appreciate the help regardless. 

    Also, i'm trying to add gradients and I seem to be running into the same issues. It's quite annoying. I'm unsure of how or where you remove gradients, and just what's going on when I click on areas. I'm double clicking the gradient line to add another gradient stop and it just exits out of that tool. VERY frustrating. I'm double clicking when I see the visual indication of the "+" symbol. When i'm faced with issues like that i'm just dumbfounded and perplexed. No idea what could be going wrong. 😒

     

    As you can see, the mouse cursor isn't even showing in the screenshot. But I assure you it's there. 😒

     

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    Tyler Durden Tyler Durden @TylerDurden

    Here's another way (again, about 1:40):

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    Freezr Freezr @freezr

    Each software has is learning curve, the issues are in our habits. However after many (but very many many) year working with both software I think that Inkscape has better controls and I feel more comfortable and more productive with Inkscape despite all the papercuts, UI gaps and less features...

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    Tyler Durden Tyler Durden @TylerDurden

    Inkscape does not have automatic or inferred constraints (parallel, perpendicular, etc.) So I'll use a grid in this Bezier example.

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