Tag Archives: Inkscape

Shark-like spaceship design with exaggerated perspective

From now on I’m going to be coming at all my sketching from a spaceship or science fiction point of view, because it seems to be what the vast majority of visitors to this site want. Every week I’ve been producing sketches for an art challenge called Illustration Friday, and these sketches are going to [...]

Scorpion, a new spaceship design sketch

And I’m back doing what I do best, sketching spaceships. The spaceship tag at the top of this blog is the most popular destination on this whole site, and I’ve decided to stop ignoring that. I’ve started with a spaceship sketch that was a lot of fun to do. It’s a spaceship, with a little [...]

Love Birds Valentine Vector Image with Inkscape

This image is called Love Birds, and it is, of course, in honour of Valentine’s Day. I’m focusing on producing images in Inkscape right now. Since the death of my XP laptop and my consequent inability to use my new Bamboo graphics tablet – Linux just doesn’t like it (even my brand spanking new Mandriva [...]

Inkscape Vector Image with True Outlines • Cartoon Look • for Illustration Friday

The word on Illustration Friday this week is entangled, and I have created an Entangled Elephants illustration. You can see stage 1 of this Inkscape vector image here. I am still starting out with Inkscape, but it really is intuitive and fun to use. Creating these nice cartoon outlines was simple. I just copied the [...]

First Stages of a Space Cat in Inkscape, for later use in Blender.

I am a big fan of Illustration Friday, which is an “art challenge website” where a new word is posted every week and used as a source of inspiration by artists around the world. Some of my illustrations have received excellent feedback, such as last weeks Photoshop and Bamboo Tablet illustration of the word “music”. [...]

Change Inkscape’s interface language the easy way thanks to Rarst.net, and a very nice Photoshop brush for graphics tablets.

Photoshop can make some very nice natural looking and intuitive marks with a graphics tablet – I’m using the “Bamboo Pen”, which is the cheapest available in my parts. It does require some tinkering and I was having a hard time of it, when a commenter on the post containing my first graphics tablet image [...]