The following tutorial is the engish version of the tutorial written by chrisdesign published by him (coco) on inkscape-forum.de. There is also a Portuguese translation of the tutorial on the inkscapebrasil forum.
This is a very quick and easy tutorial.
First, choose the calligraphy tool (
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The most important setting to get correct here is the ”thinning” set it to about 0.30
Now, draw your ”woodgrain” pattern. (make sure you only draw 1 line with the calligraphy tool to create this pattern.)
Now, draw a rectangle of your background colour, and duplicate the rectangle (rightclick>duplicate)
Select one of the rectangles and the woodgrain pattern, and choose path>intersection.
You should end up with one path of woodgrain and one of background colour.
All that is left is to play with colours and various after-effects:
chrisdesign has used this technique in creating his drawings of “Gibson” guitars.
(yes, these images are for real, fully drawn by chris using inkscape…)
Chris has also done another tutorial in this series, where he uses this same tecnique to create a brushed steel effect, so keep your eyes peeled for that one…
Links and Resources:
http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/InkscapeBrasil/TutorialTexturaDeMadeira
May 31, 2007 at 7:12 pm |
way cool, i’m always on the lookout for vector tutorials and yours are neat.
dared to add you to my blogroll
June 1, 2007 at 9:10 pm |
thanks for liking them, and thanks for the blogroll link! its greatly appreciated!
June 2, 2007 at 3:57 am |
When I “…Select one of the rectangles and the woodgrain pattern, and choose path>intersection” both disappear. This seems so simple yet it isn’t working for me? Ideas?
June 2, 2007 at 8:37 am |
hi will,
i have so idea from here, if you post a SVG file of before your intersection action and another of your result, ill have a squiz to see whats going on…
June 2, 2007 at 11:38 pm |
ry,
Here are links to the before.svg and after.svg. All I do is select the woodgrain then the background then Path->Intersection??
http://willsimpson.org/temp/before.svg
http://willsimpson.org/temp/after.svg
June 3, 2007 at 4:17 pm |
yeah will, you have to make sure that the calligraphy line is over the top of the rectangle… (layered on top of each other…)
have a read of the inkscape tutorial – “advanced tutorial” and go to the section about the boolean operations…
hope this helps
June 4, 2007 at 10:23 pm |
ry, thanks. This tutorial works for me now. I just didn’t see the part where I was supposed to overlay the wood grain over the background.
Thanks for the tip about the advanced tutorial, I’ll have a look.
June 19, 2007 at 8:53 am |
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September 20, 2007 at 12:27 am |
Hello there!
. Have fun !
If you want an real brushed steel effect watch this:
http://wiki.inkscape-forum.de/tutorials:holzstrukturen_erzeugen
Its very easy too.
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April 18, 2008 at 5:25 pm |
trop cool….
April 18, 2008 at 5:37 pm |
you have a similare tutorial for textile effect ?
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April 15, 2009 at 9:53 pm |
The topic is quite trendy in the net at the moment. What do you pay the most attention to while choosing what to write ?
July 6, 2009 at 4:51 pm |
Thank you for a great tutorial.
I’m very interested in how you achieved the gradient in the very last picture (the “shadow/black gradient”). Duplicating the object and using a circular gradient won’t work. Your gradient follows the path perfectly – which is extremely helpful when making 3d object. I’ve been using inkscape for more than 2 years now – and getting the gradient to follow the path is the one thing I still cannot do.
Did I miss something stupid somewhere?
September 25, 2009 at 10:01 am |
You can also draw multiple lines with the calligraphy tool but after that you must select all the lines (the pattern) and combine them ( in the menu Path-> Combine) that help you get one single element (don’t group them it will not work). It take me a while to figure that… maybe this we’ll help you.
September 25, 2009 at 10:02 am |
Ry by the way : Great tutorial !!!!