Comments on: Episode 081

By: Moonlilly

Moonlilly — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:03:08 +0000

Wow! I learned SOOO much from this tutorial! Plus, I’ve never drawn anything that cool before LOL! It was really easy to follow and I didn’t have any obstacles along the way like in some other tuts… smooth sailing all the way! Great job, keep up the good work and stop being so modest! Not everyone could just figure out what you did on their own

By: Bercik

Bercik — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:20:12 +0000

Hey, i have made a great pencil. I\’m from poland, and I can understand what are you speaking. You\’re great, thanks you, I can use Inkscape nw

By: llogg

llogg — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:03:43 +0000

heathenx, I think the issue with doing union for the drop shadow may have been related to the pencil tip objects being clipped.

By: capnhud

capnhud — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:25:27 +0000

I think that using http://ffaat.pointclark.net/blog/archives/155-GIMP-Script-Sample-a-Gradient-along-a-Path.html gimp script would allow someone to create the gradient in a snap. Use this for all images that need an accurate gradient.

By: heathenx

heathenx — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:29:03 +0000

Read about it here:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10153942-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

By: rico

rico — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:44:21 +0000

Same for me, just installed intrepid on the computer of a friend and i was putting some favorites in his firefox.. of course screencasters had to be part of it, and i was a bit surprised by the message as i’m very lazy and usually type only “screencasters” in the url bar to get me to the site, but this time i got blocked by google. I thought maybe you found a way to have a virus that automatically installs inkscape on the computer of anyone visiting the site

By: Richard Querin

Richard Querin — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:18:16 +0000

Yep zombiebrainz I concur. Got that on a whole mulititude of sites today after upgrading to Intrepid and searching around for some info. I wasn’t sure if it was my upgrade or Google that was the problem.

By: zombiebrainz

zombiebrainz — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:10:01 +0000

@rico — Google search has a SERIOUS bug today… speculation that they may have gotten hacked. ANY search results you get from google will say “Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer!”. If you click on a search result link, you can remove the “http://www.google.ca/interstitial?url=” and hit enter. You should be golden. While google gets its act together, you can use yahoo or another search engine…. Hope this helps.

By: rico

rico — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:59:29 +0000

why do i get this message when looking for screencasters on google:

Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer!

???

By: heathenx

heathenx — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:27:18 +0000

@llogg

Thank-you.

I suppose I could have carried on with more things in this screencast, like blurs and reflections, but I had to cut it off at some point. I think I had given you enough to build upon. You can always pick up where I left off and make yours even better. Just look at some of the pencils that were made on the Screencasters’ flickr group. Excellent stuff. Besides after recording for nearly 40 minutes I get antsy and want to wrap things up.

Yes, the interpolate effect was rather handy here. I wonder what other methods can be used for making conical gradients. Hmm…

By: llogg

llogg — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:51:24 +0000

One of your best screencasts yet, heathenX. Thanks. The interpolate feature is extremely powerful and often overlooked, I think. I would not have thought to use it in this way, though. Great idea. Curious why you didn’t use that technique for the lead, though. Also, why no blur on the highlight of the lead? Again, excellent work.

By: Zlatko

Zlatko — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:13:51 +0000

I learn something new about gradiens in Inkscape, on my PC sound is very good, sound chip Realtek HD ALC888 and speakers Logitech 2.1 Z4.

By: Soichiro Takeda

Soichiro Takeda — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:55:25 +0000

It’s a very excellent tutorial!!!

By: Alpha13

Alpha13 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:32:10 +0000

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC! I had a great watch and do session last night. I had a great time reproducing your screencast. If I may. there are two things I want to comment on… The sound level is a little low on my system, perhaps it is my crappy on board sound chip. The other comment is that I was disappointed there was no Lover Boy in the intro

Thanx HX!

By: heathenx

heathenx — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:12:24 +0000

Ok everyone. I’ll dump the comics-sans (rufscript) font that I’m using for future screencasts. Say…an Arial, 22pt, bold?

@rico
Thanks for the Inkscape repo. Richard just gave that to me recently. Handy.

@Richard Querin:
Thanks for the comments. I can’t take much credit though. Eren Goksel and PSDTUTS should get all the praise. Besides, Eren’s pencil was much better than mine.

Regarding the union of the shadow…for some reason I couldn’t get it to work on my first take so I avoided it on my second take. I wonder now if my shapes weren’t touching or something. Hmm…

By: Richard Querin

Richard Querin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:08:44 +0000

Okay. Let me first start by saying.. “Holy Crap!”.

Such a nice job. Never knew about the interpolated gradients AT ALL.
Never knew about the Objects To Guides AT ALL.

I absolutely loved the way you created the metal stamping effect. As soon as I saw the tutorial screenshot I thought to myself, “how the heck is he gonna create that??”.

Awesome job. If there was an emoticon that mimic’d Wayne & Garth’s “we’re not worthy” I’d surely use it.

But it wouldn’t be right for me to just heap on the praise without something to add… when you created the drop shadow at the end, you could have just selected everything and ‘union’ed it and then turned it black and blurred it no? Or maybe the clipping or gradients would have caused problems? Not sure why you deleted certain objects before doing it.

Regardless, that was really really really good. So unlike you.

By: Mohamed

Mohamed — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:31:21 +0000

Hello,
I want to thank you for these fabulous tutorials, I started working on inkscape few months ago and I learned many interesting tips from your blog.
Greetings from Morocco!

PS: Concerning the comic font, I’m sorry to tell you that it makes following the tutorial a little bit difficult for me too

By: rico

rico — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:20:18 +0000

juste a note
nightly builds of inkscape are now available for ubuntu
https://launchpad.net/~inkscape-nightly/+archive

By: neon g

neon g — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:57:28 +0000

What a scorcher! I learnt loads from this one.

I’ve wanted to do a conical gradient a couple of times in the past but I didn’t know how, so thank you very much for that tip

By: rico

rico — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:25:27 +0000

excellent screencast as usual!
The interpolated gradient is a really good idea that should eventually get a deeper look… in a microsode? Would it be possible to come close to mesh gradients with that technique?

Thanx again!