With Apologies to Mr. Escher, I used one of his simpler works for Inkscape practice:

Original:



Inkscaped:



This stuff is REALLY hard. I know mine isn't an exact copy, and hardly perfect, but I won't touch it again, hence under "finished" not WIP. I always admired Escher's work, but actually trying to do it myself gives it a whole new perspective... pun not intended.

Nice work. I assume it was hand-traced, as opposed to using any functions to define the paths.

I think it could be fun to create an exact replica of that object, with the shading and lines.

On a side note, here's a great tip for creating smoother, more easily controlled curves that I think your drawing could benefit from - http://www.illustratorworld.com/forum/v ... .php?t=812

Thanks for the tipp, I'll try to figure out what that is about. I am still very much a beginner.

And, yeah, if you can create an absolutely exact replica of that thing in Inkscape, I think not only are you very good, I think that would aake for an excellent tutorial.

It looks great, nice work. A tip for the actual avatar image: the red is a bit high contrast next to the blue. Maybe go for a bit more muted colors.

kelan wrote:It looks great, nice work. A tip for the actual avatar image: the red is a bit high contrast next to the blue. Maybe go for a bit more muted colors.

Yeah, to be picky, red and blue bleed when they touch so they're often not good to use together. Having worked at a University it always amazed me to see academics using red text on a blue Powerpoint slide--it's a big no-no.

Here's an example of how to position nodes for this shape:


Notice I have only placed them in horizontal and vertical positions (except where they touch the boundary of the circle). This encourages much smoother curves.

Whilst I positioned the nodes by referring to the drawing, a smarter person might have noticed the rough pattern they formed and created a best-fit curve to more accurately guide the positioning of those nodes.

In early versions my lines spilled outside of the sphere and I used a circle to trim it back. Also the Orange object is an exact copy of the pink object, only flipped horizontally.

Nice - Could you post a closeup of the node placement of the center spiral?

I have so much to learn yet

I think this is one of the images that would be much easier to do using Spiro paths in the development version of Inkscape. Try it, it's fun

bbyak wrote:I think this is one of the images that would be much easier to do using Spiro paths in the development version of Inkscape. Try it, it's fun

I would be very impressed if it could indeed create this object since it needs to be able to distort the shape to create a spherical perspective. I'd love to test it, but I really can't see how to use the effect Perhaps the recent Windows build doesn't have it implemented properly yet, as the effect has no options except to make it visible or not.

Bah, ignore my post. I got confused about how Spiro paths work. You're right, it should make it easier.

UPDATE: But it doesn't