I started by drawing the letters as basic strokes. Each line I draw (for the whole word) I hold shift for the first node then release to combine with the last stroke.
Draw a separate line and use the Clone Original LPE to attach it to the text. Make the stroke wider than the original and send to the back. Duplicate the cloned stroke, recolour and widen that stroke further, then send it to the back also.
Duplicate one of the cloned strokes again, colour it black and make it thinner. Position this stroke toward the bottom right of the text. This is the shadow on the text. Blur it and use overlay blend mode.
Duplicate that shadow and colour it white. Position this stroke toward the top left of the text. This is the highlight of the text.
Duplicate the shadow once more, increase the width and send to the back... This is the drop shadow.
I used gradients on the strokes, so you can play around with that. Colours should be darker and less saturated toward the bottom right.
Additionally, in the above design, I used Powerstroke LPE on the original path to reshape the letters. This is temperamental, so might take some tweaking. (clones will need switching to fills and use inset/outset to control width).
As with all experiments, save frequently.
Lock all layers except the original path and when you click with the node tool, you will be able to manipulate it as seen above.
Good idea and excellent result. Thanks for sharing. One suggestion, if you are going to do more of this style it would be nice if all the works were in one thread. I say this because you have put the 3D stroke one in a separate thread. It would be good if they were all in the same thread for ease of reference 😊
Similar method as above (rubber text), The original path is a dashed line, the 1st clone is another dashed line, offset to fill the gaps, the 2nd clone is the shadow and the third is the highlight. Could have done a 4th as a drop-shadow (this should always oppose the highlight).
EDIT: Spiro was used on the original path. Remember to lock the clones if you want to manipulate the line.
This was created manually, but I did this to show that it doesn't take much to outdo Illustrator's 3D tools with Inkscape. My controversial opinion: Advanced tools can make artists weaker. While basic tools force creativity and innovation.
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More experimentation with stacking live path effects.
Sounds great. What particular Live Path Effects are you using and in what order?
@hum
I started by drawing the letters as basic strokes. Each line I draw (for the whole word) I hold shift for the first node then release to combine with the last stroke.
Draw a separate line and use the Clone Original LPE to attach it to the text. Make the stroke wider than the original and send to the back. Duplicate the cloned stroke, recolour and widen that stroke further, then send it to the back also.
Duplicate one of the cloned strokes again, colour it black and make it thinner. Position this stroke toward the bottom right of the text. This is the shadow on the text. Blur it and use overlay blend mode.
Duplicate that shadow and colour it white. Position this stroke toward the top left of the text. This is the highlight of the text.
Duplicate the shadow once more, increase the width and send to the back... This is the drop shadow.
I used gradients on the strokes, so you can play around with that. Colours should be darker and less saturated toward the bottom right.
Additionally, in the above design, I used Powerstroke LPE on the original path to reshape the letters. This is temperamental, so might take some tweaking. (clones will need switching to fills and use inset/outset to control width).
As with all experiments, save frequently.
Lock all layers except the original path and when you click with the node tool, you will be able to manipulate it as seen above.
Good idea and excellent result. Thanks for sharing. One suggestion, if you are going to do more of this style it would be nice if all the works were in one thread. I say this because you have put the 3D stroke one in a separate thread. It would be good if they were all in the same thread for ease of reference 😊
Fair comment @mrks9
I have renamed the thread to Pacer's Experiments. :)
Similar method as above (rubber text), The original path is a dashed line, the 1st clone is another dashed line, offset to fill the gaps, the 2nd clone is the shadow and the third is the highlight. Could have done a 4th as a drop-shadow (this should always oppose the highlight).
EDIT: Spiro was used on the original path. Remember to lock the clones if you want to manipulate the line.
This was created manually, but I did this to show that it doesn't take much to outdo Illustrator's 3D tools with Inkscape.
My controversial opinion: Advanced tools can make artists weaker. While basic tools force creativity and innovation.
That's really clean work.