Hi Friends,

Someone asked for help drawing this in the old Inkscape Community, and of course I've directed them over here.  But their question got me so intrigued, I thought I would use the idea for my first drawing challenge.

In general, I hope to set up challenges for all skill levels, over time.  This one happens to need intermediate skills, but I'll make some for beginners as well, in the very near future.

These challenges don't have any deadline.  Their purpose is just to provide an opportunity for Inkscape users to practice their skills, and get input from others, and learn from others' techniques.  If you stumble on this challenge 3 years from now, you can still use the idea for practice, and you can still share your results here, if you like.

Participants are urged to share their SVG files, so that others may learn from them.  But it's not a requirement.

Here's a nice Wikimedia free image of a single fusili or rotini pasta, which could be used as a model.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fusilli.png    

And for some more examples, my DDG search.  Please be sure to check the licenses on any photos you may use, to make sure it doesn't violate the image's license to use it as a drawing model.  https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fusili+free+image&t=seamonkey&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

I just had the idea, so I haven't started drawing yet, but I'll try to put up my effort soon.

I'll probably go for a realistic style, but anyone may make their drawing in any style they want.

Have fun!

Oh goodness, that's a tricky one! I might give it a try, though I think a realistic version might be beyond my level. But a cartoony version, dripping in tomato sauce....

I'll give it some thought.

Oh my!!! This sounds fun! I think I need to advance my skills for sure. ;) I'll have to really think on this one.

Challenge accepted.

Inkscape crashing.

Reinstalling.

It's hard to accept all the conceptual and technical limitations of a software that is aiming for the freedom of drawing.

With mesh gradients and filters this should be a no-brainer.

Edit:  current 64bit win build doesn't recognise keyboard shortcuts and instant crashes when trying to import one in the settings.

Off topic

Lazur, since you recently mentioned (elsewhere) about your computer memory being nearly full, I have to wonder if that might be why you're seeing so many crashes lately?  Because don't computers have a way to access the hard drive when the ram is overloaded?  I haven't been doing any  resource heavy drawing lately, but this challenge will be a good test (of 0.92.3 anyway).

I'll have to pass on the pasta drawing, but it looks like fun.  I'm busy on trying to create a pansy at the moment, lol.  And pasta isn't something I'd use again.  But I look forward to participating in other contests.  I'd like to see a pansy contest!  having to figure out a few things.

oh, Lazur can't wait to see your pasta.  Gotta have one of your famous filters on it right!

off topic - Im also having crashing.  I'm on win 7, on an about 9 yr old laptop.  Getting memory error notices, esp since the upgrade on this latest stable version. Though am getting tons of adware too (website), and some script is running on foxfire browser constantly, which I think is eating up my memory.  errrr, no idea what to do to figure out which script it is.

First scribbles.

Need to step up my gradient mesh game. 

This seems a perfect way for practicing.

What I'm doing here is assembing the image of a greyscale replica and a colour overlay for the chroma part.

Then, the shapes are drawn from clipped groups, and the paths inside are filtered and have mesh gradient fills.  

As the good Italian that I am, I'm tired of pasta; so I won't draw into. Yet, I noticed there was a lack of pictures, at least, on the public domain sites that I've checked; so here it is a bit of help from me, hoping the challenge will be fun. Fusilli

Thank's for the heads up Roberto! 

Currently ended up with this one attached. (Not sure when I'll reach the upload quota so maybe it's time to look for an easy to use and reliable hosting site.)

Not perfect, alot of parts could be improved and hit some rendering issues as well. Apart that I guess it's quite good for my first real encounter with gradient meshes.

Hope to see more challenge takers joining in!

Edit: having some problems either with uploading the file -some size limit/dimension limit?

Excellent work! That looks amazing.

Wow, that's great!

You're welcome Lazur, and great work!

I extended the challenge to the Italian forum, just in case someone is interested. Hoping Brynn doesn't mind. 😉

Thank you! 

Will have to redo that cast shadow sometime. 

For now, here is the rest.

This is really great. I've updated the quota here on the website to 21MB, but, if you are in a group that posts a lot, I can increase the quota further to host your images. Mostly the low quota is there to control first posters and spammers. These kinds of hostings should be perfectly fine for more quota.

doctormo

This is really great. I've updated the quota here on the website to 21MB, but, if you are in a group that posts a lot, I can increase the quota further to host your images. Mostly the low quota is there to control first posters and spammers. These kinds of hostings should be perfectly fine for more quota.

Thank you!

Although based on previous experience I'll definitely need to outsource these. 

Speaking of, for the details

-uploaded a 10k rendering of the fussili image here:

https://www.deviantart.com/lazururh/art/Fusilli-809400945?ga_submit_new=10%3A1565626403

(it's around 12 MB)

Lazur, impressive, as always.  Very nice. 

Ok, I have my effort.  I went for more or less of a realistic style, although I realize it's perfectly straight, which is not realistic.  But making it more random looking would add a lot more time to it.

Hhmm, maybe it looks a too yellow here?  It's more tan when I'm looking at it in Inkscape....I might have to fix the coloring.

Edit

Click blue Attachments button to download the SVG file.  SVG is provided with CC-by-nc-nd license.  Please feel free to dive in and learn from it!

In case the user from Inkscape Community is following this, here's how I did it.  And you can see how this is too complex for someone to make a quick video for you.  (It took me about an hour to do this, and really the drawing needs another hour, for my own satisfaction, icing on the cake, as they say.)

First I made a shape like the single (line drawing) unit in the attached esp.png image.  Then I lined up 10 or 12 of them, side by side.

Next I used the Paint Bucket tool to fill in the space that you can see in the file bp.png.  Then I changed it from being filled with solid pink, to a radial gradient, and adjusted it to be elliptical gradient, so the complex gradient can create the shading inside of that shape, and highlights on the edges.

Then I did the same thing with the smaller shape at the top.  Then I grouped the top and bottom shapes together.  And then I duplicated that group and moved each one over to fill all the rest of the units.

Then I changed all the black strokes' color to having gradients, to help emphasize highlights at the top edges of the fusilli, as well as the boundary of the spiral on the inside.  And I blurred them every so slightly, because I think it makes it look more realistic.

Then I drew a couple of blurred shapes to create the shadows at the bottom.  And I tweaked the ends of it with Node tool, to look like the pasta is broken at the ends.

If I want to tweak it to look not perfectly straight, and be more random, I would probably use an LPE (maybe Bend or maybe Envelope or Matrix Deform) and of course the Node tool.  And I might add some "spots" here and there, with blurring, to make the color a little less perfect.

Nice work Brynn.  Can't believe it only took an hr, very nice result. 

I saw the latest version of Lazur's contribution on DeviantArt > just awesome !

It led me to do something that would never have come naturally to my mind : draw pasta :))

Here's my try :

https://www.deviantart.com/m-1981/art/Fusilli-study-810033470

I would join svg source, but I didn't understand how to bind images on this post ("Quota 0 of 0. MB" ?)...

m1981.  love it.  nice style! 

The 2nd part of this message tells how to attach images:  https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/how-to-make-a-screenshot-and-put-it-in-a-message/

I would ignore that quota.  Mine has been at 6 of 21 mb for many months, no matter how much I upload, it never moves beyond 6.  I would try it an see what happens.

Yes ! It seems to work now.

The first time I used it, nothing happened when I pressed the "upload" button (quota remained at 0Mb). Maybe because it was my first post and I never been approved by a moderator yet ?

I'm not sure re the quota.  Does it still say 0 of 0?  Now you're past the moderation, and your messages will post immediately.  But I'm not sure if the quota is related to that.  We should probably report it, if it still says 0 of 0.

The second time, quota was 1 of 21. MB. Now, I'm at 2 of 21. MB > quota evolve as expected.

I suppose a first moderator approbation is required to allow file upload.

Nice work, m1981.

Do you use a tablet/stylus?

Have a nice day.

TD

Thanks ! No tablet (even if I would love to try), just mouse and combination tools (intersect, substract...).

Those pasta studies are awesome. 

Here is my entry. Never done anything like this, but I tried my best. 

@mondspeer smooth work, very delicate !