New discoveries await...
Chris Hildenbrand
Inkscape is a tool of creative discovery. Maps and islands have been the real world equivalent of new discoveries - so the 1.2 island appeared with endless ideas hovering around it.
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A long journey
Chris Hildenbrand
20 years of Inkscape is not the end of the journey but a huge milestone. The new version is built on the foundations of the previous versions and is becoming better with each iteration. It's a shining example of what is possible in open source software when a great team of dedicated developers gets together and works their magic. I tried to showcase what can be done in Inkscape with simple shapes and without fancy drawing skills. Using only a limited set of tools to create a consistent yet rich look. The piece relies heavily on gradients, tapered and power stroke path effects on simple lines and basic shapes [circles and rectangles were the starting point for most elements]. Organizing a design of this complexity was key. The improved layers and objects panel was a huge help in keeping the 2500+ objects that make this scene under control. Bebas Font: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bebas+Neue?query=bebas Barlow Condensed https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Barlow+Condensed?category=Sans+Serif
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Expand Your Creative Universe
Chris Hildenbrand
Expand Your Creative Universe with the new version 1.4 of Inkscape.
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Creative Growth
Chris Hildenbrand
Creative Growth - 20 years of Inkscape Enabling creatives to grow their imagination, go wild, and be creative. I played around a lot with layer blend modes, path effects [taper and powerstroke], blurs, the spiro effects on the pen tool, clones, and Boolean operations. What started as a quick test [while stuck on another idea] grew wild and I went a bit overboard... but it's just too much fun to work in Inkscape. Bebas Font: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bebas+Neue?query=bebas Barlow Condensed https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Barlow+Condensed?category=Sans+Serif
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Creative Growth
Chris Hildenbrand
AboutScreen v1.4 entry - Creative Growth - wonderous plants grow when creativity is set free. I love working with colours, simple shapes, and gradients to create the illusion of something rather complex. This design ended up with ~13,000 elements in a single file [for the about screen and the two extra layouts [web and welcome], countless clip groups, dozens of gradients, a LOT of path effects and blurs, and layer blend modes to give nice colour mixes. ...and Inkscape did not disappoint. In the ~8 hours it took to design [thanks to elements already created prior] I had no crashes and no major issues with the tool. --- Curated by Maren Hachmann on April 2 2024 5:13 PM Font: Bebas Neue (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bebas+Neue)
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Joy!
Chris Hildenbrand
My entry is all about the fun I have when working with Inkscape. It's an awesome tool and makes the creation of vector art a joy. I tried to get that vibe across as well as use some of the great features of the tool to showcase the abilities in a 'not quite like any other tool' way. Enjoy!
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A Long Journey
Chris Hildenbrand
20 years of Inkscape is not the end of the journey but a huge milestone. The new version is built on the foundations of the previous versions and is becoming better with each iteration. It's a shining example of what is possible in open source software when a great team of dedicated developers gets together and works their magic. I tried to showcase what can be done in Inkscape with simple shapes and without fancy drawing skills. Using only a limited set of tools to create a consistent yet rich look. The piece relies heavily on gradients, tapered and power stroke path effects on simple lines and basic shapes [circles and rectangles were the starting point for most elements]. Organizing a design of this complexity was key. The improved layers and objects panel was a huge help in keeping the 2500+ objects that make this scene under control. Bebas Font: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bebas+Neue?query=bebas Barlow Condensed https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Barlow+Condensed?category=Sans+Serif
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Creative Growth
Chris Hildenbrand
Creative Growth - 20 years of Inkscape Enabling creatives to grow their imagination, go wild, and be creative. I played around a lot with layer blend modes, path effects [taper and powerstroke], blurs, the spiro effects on the pen tool, clones, and Boolean operations. What started as a quick test [while stuck on another idea] grew wild and I went a bit overboard... but it's just too much fun to work in Inkscape. ----- Bebas Font: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bebas+Neue?query=bebas Barlow Condensed https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Barlow+Condensed?category=Sans+Serif
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Triangulated Crab
Chris Hildenbrand
A design done for a video tutorial: https://youtu.be/7P-ftVPsIpM
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