Done and working ! Thank you very much !

Thank you very much ! I'll try it as soon as I find a little time.

Hi ! I'm trying ton install Inkscape 0.91 on a Debian Wheezy (32 bits). I'l following this tutorial which seems a bit out of date : http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingDebian I donwloaded the source and extracted them. I'm stuck at the step "building the package". I enter the ...

Thanks Xav and Tylerdurden for your answers. I'll give a try to your advices Xav, as I'm not fully satisfied with the way the title stands out. It's not enough. Another problem is that the document will be printed both as a A3 poster and a A6 flyer. So I had to size things up, and now the whole lack...

Hi ! The first version was intended to be a draft : something to be used as a start for collective thinking work. In my opinion it's an easier way than trying to get ideas from nowhere. The dark side of the method is that I'm drowned in emails saying : "Change this. Change that. A little furthe...

The trouble is I've no direct contact with the print-shop : I'm working for a friend who has a friend who is able to print the stuff but perhaps won't do it so my friend will have to turn to an online print-shop. I guess this is what is called a "graphic chain" but this one is pretty entan...

Hi ! I was asked to create a poster to advertize a rock event. I choosed to do it with Inkscape. It will be printed in a printing shop, so I plan to save the final version as a pdf file and I'd like to get advices about the rules I must follow to create a proper pdf file : How to manage the bleed ? ...

Yes I know that I made my outlines a way that creates many points (use of ctrl + /) and that some path are overlapping because they're all closed. Maybe you could propose a method to cure this last point ? Anyway, you were very kind to take some time to create this example, it'll be very usefull. Re...

I uploaded the last version of the svg file. Now there are some shadow (but not all) and the outline are in a layer above the others. The hands are still to be designed with details.

I will have to tweak my shadows and highlights to determine the right transparency and blur amount.

Thank you for the links : the cowboy tutorial is great and has a funny music !

It's the first tutorial I found, and it's no so bad. I gave a try to Blender once, it's a great soft, but it's very difficult to learn it. In front of this billion-buttons screen I felt as if I was a very stupid guy

Thanks Lazur for this extra search. I would say the second image is the best. This character is deep carven in my memory and like any schoolboy of my generation I used to draw it much when I was young (so much younger than today ;-) ) The first and third one seem wrong in their proportions, and the ...

Two newbies on one post ?! It's a great day ! Welcome to you both

Yep that's exactly the "tracing paper" method I use, but it's not plainly satisfying. If you zoom too much, for instance, you make meaningless gestures and can't keep in mind the overall shape. I used this technic much when working in a screenprinting workshop, but we mostly reproduced log...

Hey ! I'm sure you'll be quicker to make a 3D Grendizer than I'm to copy a 2D one My main trouble is that I can't draw. I'm able to do something correct by tweaking vectors, but drawing...

Thank you Ragnar. I edited the first post to have picture showing correctly. I also incorporated the model, so it's now possible to compare. The parts covering outline are highlights wich I intend tu blur and make transparent. This should solve the problem. If it doesn't, yes, I'll put outline on a ...

Hi ! I'm trying to draw the biggest hero from my chilhood : Goldorak which is the French name for Grendizer I think. I use a picture found on the web as a guide. I've drawn the parts and I'm know working on highlights and shadows (which I will make transparent and blur a little). Here's the file : h...

I'm not sure CYMK is a real problem : RGB allows more colors, so it's always possible for the printer (the man) to do the conversation with his own tools with no need to guess missing colors (and you may always control the final proof). Anyway, I found a little useful tool here : http://www.blackfiv...

The pdf file seems unavailable. Anyway it's an interessant idea.

It's an extract from Don Juan, a song by french singer George Brassens (not Molière's play). It's difficult to translate, but approximately it goes "glory to him who, having no sacrosanct ideal, limits himself not to bother too much his neighbours." Very approximately ...

^-only when the original object is a simple path. If that's spiro, if that's a text, if that's a bitmap, if that's a group of objects Ctrl+- wont help. Some more detailed explanation of the problem would make things clear. Yep ! But most of this may be turned to simple path... The first question wa...

Hi Dillerkind !

I've just discovered this topic and I'm fond of your work. I particularily like you cute little pin-ups and the wallpaper-like drawing with the two foxes on the left.

I edited the above message : after a day at work I tend to forget some things

If what you want to do is creating a hole in a background objetct having the shape of the foreground object, what you need is Ctrl + -

Thank you V1nce for your explanations and examples : they make this topic very useful for me as this is the first time I understand how to make a filter. I saw the light :-) Now I'm sure I'll spend hours playing with that and trying to make filters as nice as yours. A little bonus : a blog which see...