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Drawing with the Pen tool - Inkscape Tutorial
From the course: Inkscape Essential Training
Drawing with the Pen tool
- [Instructor] Let's take a look at the pen tool and how to use it to draw and modify artwork in Inkscape. In the exercise file for this movie, I've created four objects that you can use to practice with the pen tool and they go in order of increasing difficulty from the very simple house here with all straight lines, to the cloud, which has one straight line and a few curves, to the leaf, which is made up of four curves, one of which changes direction. And there are also a few corners in here. And the last one, the musical note has a little bit of everything. All of these things are on a layer called source with reduced opacity that you can see in the layers dialogue. And it's underneath the drawing layer, so you can practice tracing these objects without disturbing them. In order to focus on drawing, I'd like to hide the bounding boxes of selected objects. So to do that, let's open up the selector tools preferences by…
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Drawing with the Pen tool8m 39s
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Using the Node tool4m 52s
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Understanding node types4m 13s
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Joining and splitting paths1m 44s
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Drawing with the Pencil tool3m 6s
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Understanding shapes and paths4m 36s
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Creating spirals2m 40s
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Creating rectangles4m 35s
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Creating ellipses2m 25s
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Creating stars and polygons2m 10s
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Drawing with the Calligraphy tool6m 5s
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Creating diagram connectors4m 34s
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Erasing paths2m 58s
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