Inkscape for Beginners Heartbeat design Vector Tutorial Video Lecture -

this is Nick with logos by Nick's calm
and in today's tutorial I'll be using
Inkscape to show you how you can create
this vector heartbeat design using a
dog's head using Inkscape and this is a
design that this is something that could
be adapted to any other type of design
it doesn't just have to be a dog head it
could also be like a skyline of a
particular city or like a saxophone or a
heart or something like that
I see the asite these sorts of designs
being used a lot people selling t-shirts
on Facebook and stuff so I'm going to
show you how you can create this sort of
design using Inkscape and at any point
in the tutorial you could look down at
the bottom left-hand side of my screen
to see which mouse clicks and keystrokes
I'm using so I'll minimize this and
we'll get started here in Inkscape by
the way if you'd like to know how you
can make Inkscape appear darkened with
these custom icons a link to that
information will be in the description
of the video so the first thing I want
to do is make sure I have the view set
the custom and then I'll zoom in at 1 to
1 and then we're going to open up the
align and distribute menu with this
button up here and we're going to want
last selected chosen from that drop-down
and then we'll open up the Edit objects
colors gradients and Stroke menu which
is right there and after that we're
going to get rid of the page border by
going to file document properties and we
could just uncheck the show page border
box and then uncheck the show border
shadow box and then we can close out of
that and our document is set to begin
working so for this particular tutorial
I use the dog head here I'm just going
to import some images that I downloaded
from the internet so what I'm going to
do is I'm just going to shrink down the
ink escape window and it's this image
right here animal one two nine nine four
eight five or whatever that is I'll have
a link to this in the description of the
video so just go ahead and download that
and save it to a place where you can
easily access it and then we can just
click and drag that into Inkscape
maximize the window if you're using Mac
I don't believe the clicking drag
function will work so if you're using a
Mac just go to file and import and it
should be able to work that way so we
have
is this series of dog images here in SVG
format meaning these are all vectors
these can all be manipulated different
ways and you can change the colors and
everything so for this one I just use
this image right here so let me zoom out
a little bit I'll press minus on the
keyboard a couple of times so we can see
the whole picture and I'll just ungroup
click the button that says ungroup
selected objects and it should ungroup
it into separate objects click off me to
deselect everything and then just take
this object here in the middle where you
use this dog put that off to the side
and then click and drag over the rest of
these dogs and just press Delete on the
keyboard to get rid of them so we'll
take this guy over here and by the way
up to move the page around like that I'm
pressing down on the mouse wheel and
moving the mouse so we have this dog
here I'm gonna press 1 on the keyboard
to move back in to 100% and I'll just
hold ctrl and shift and click and drag
this arrow to scale that down a little
bit make that a little smaller so what I
want to do now is create an outline out
of this so we'll turn off the fill color
by clicking on this X over here and
we're going to give it an outline by
holding shift and clicking on the color
black right here and it's going to
create that it's going to create an
outline out of that image and what I
want to do now is come over to the
stroke style tab and change the width of
that to 10 so hit 10 and hit enter and
then I will turn on I will make this
around to join and make a surrounded cap
and what I want to do over here is where
it says effect you want to make sure we
have this very first box turned off what
we're going to do next so once that's
turned off what I'm going to do is I'm
just going to make this a little bit
bigger because as it looks right now you
can't really see like the ear or like
any it's hard to tell if this is a dog
head but looking at just the head part
anyway because the lines a little too
thick so what I do is I'm just going to
hold ctrl and shift and scale it up a
little bit to make the line a little
thinner kind of like what I have here in
this thumbnail and have it the size
about that I'm paying attention mostly
the ears here so I'm going to scale this
up a little more ok that looks pretty
good like that and what I want to do now
is I want to grab the rectangle tool the
squares and rectangles tool and click
and drag to create a rectangle going
over the bottom portion
of the dog's body and I want to turn
that I'll just turn that red and then
hold shift and click on the X to get rid
of the outline and I'm going to come
over here to the opacity and bring that
down a little bit and then I'll go back
to the Select tool and what I'm looking
at over here is the dog's neck because
that's where the edge the edge of this
red rectangle is going to make for the
vertical at for the horizontal axis for
this heartbeat line so wherever we use
wherever we put this red rectangle is
where the dog's head is going to end so
we don't want it like too high like up
here we don't want it too high up here
or too low down there so I think right
about there is pretty good and once we
have it positioned like that we could
hold a shift and click on the dog and go
to path cut path that's going to cut
that up into all different pieces we can
click off a bet to deselect everything
and take just the dog's head you will
this off to the side take the rest of
its body click and drag over to deselect
it and press Delete on the keyboard to
get rid of it so we now have just the
dog head so the next part is to create
the actual heartbeat lines which should
be pretty simple so to do that we will
grab the bezzie a pen which is over here
or you could just press B on the
keyboard to grab that and we want to do
is come up here and turn them to snap
the custom mode button and then we want
to snap the cursor onto this node right
here and click and then hold ctrl on the
keyboard to lock onto the horizontal
axis and just bring this line out to the
left maybe that far and then click and
you can let go of control and hit enter
and it's going to create a little line
right there and we want this line to be
consistent with the outline of the dog's
head so we're going to change we're
going to come over to the stroke style
tab and change the width to 10 which is
the same size and again we'll give this
a rounded join and a rounded cap and now
we're going to put the little little
indication of a heartbeat that are kind
of like an EKG machine so to do that I'm
going to grab the edit pads by nodes
tool and I'm going to click and drag
over those two nodes of that line and
I'll come up here the very far left
where it says insert new node
good segment so I'll click that once and
then a second time and maybe one more
time and you're going to see a whole
bunch of new nodes in there so let's
zoom in on this portion now I'm just
going to press plus in the keyboard a
couple of times to zoom in and I want to
take the third line the third node in
from the right I want to leave this one
alone I want to leave that one alone I
want to take this third one right here
click on that so it's just that is
selected and hold ctrl and click and
drag that up maybe about that far and
then hold ctrl and take this node and
bring that down maybe about that far
now we'll hold ctrl we'll take this next
node and bring that up a little bit not
as high as this one but just a little
lower hold control take this node bring
that down and then maybe take this one
bring that up just a little bit like
that so what we want to do now is put
these all a little closer together so
I'm just going to hold ctrl and take
this bottom node and slide that to the
left I'll take this node and slide that
to the left hold and control the whole
time I'm doing this slide each of these
nodes over to the left a little bit put
this one over here and I want to take
this node and hold ctrl and bring that
over here bring these all in a little
closer like that and you'll bring that
one in a little more and what I'll do is
I'll click and drag over all of these
nodes in the left half and hold ctrl and
bring that in to the right a little bit
like that and let me press one on the
keyboard to zoom back out to 100%
click on the select tool and click off
and that can be select you'll see we've
gotten to start here make you just make
duplicate copies of this to finish off
the rest of the design so if you notice
in the thumbnail I use two on this side
and one on that side so I'll just right
click on that and go to duplicate and
I'll move this over here and snap this
node onto this node and that should
happen automatically if you just click
and drag it near there like that that's
pretty good and maybe I'll space this
out a little more I'll move this one
away a little further so I'll go to the
edit pads by nodes tool and I'll click
and drag over all of the nodes to the
left
except for this last one right here so
just these nodes on the Left hold
control and bring that out to the left
and then maybe click on just this node
and then hold control and bring that out
to the left a little bit like that yeah
that's pretty good and now we can go to
the Select tool right click on that go
to duplicate and I'll take this one and
put this over here and these lines are a
little too close to the dog's nose so
I'll go to the edit pads by nodes tool
and click and drag over those nodes and
hold ctrl and pull them out to the right
a little bit like that and we go back to
the Select tool and click off it to
deselect everything and you see this
pretty much it we've pretty much
finished the design so how is it that we
can finalize the snap so that we can
color it in and use it however we want
well I'm just going to make a duplicate
copy of this I'll put this off to the
side I'm going to right click on those
and go to duplicate and I'll bring this
over here if we try to make that like
let's say we want to make that red we're
going to get it something like that
because these are registered as outlines
or otherwise known as strokes within
Inkscape so time to make these into pads
we'll just go to path stroke to path and
now we can make them red or yellow or
orange or whatever color you'd like you
can even hold ctrl and shift and scale
them down like that and if you and this
design this could be used like I said
earlier with anything other than like a
dog head for example I'll use a star let
me create a star here I'll click on the
stars and polygons tool click on the
star I'll make that five corners rounded
zero randomize zero spoke ratio zero
0.375
and I'll just hold ctrl and shift and
create a star like that I'm going to
give that an outline by holding shift
and click on the color black and then
I'll click on the X to turn off the fill
and I'll go to the stroke style give it
a rounded cap
around enjoying let me just go to the
select tool and zoom in a little more
and click on to the second time to get
the rotation handles and just rotate it
around a little bit like that that's
pretty good press one to zoom back out
and again we're grab the scores and
rectangles tool and create a rectangle
going over where it is that we want the
horizontal axis of the heartbeat line to
be go back to the Select tool hold shift
click on the star and go to pack cut
path click off of the deselect and we
can take this get rid of it
take that get rid of it just pressing
delete on the keyboard to get rid of it
click and drag over both of those bring
the opacity all the way up and then I'll
take this segment over here right click
that go to duplicate and I'll put this
on this note here and maybe I'll shrink
that down a little bit I'm going to hold
ctrl and make this star a little smaller
snap it back onto that node take this
one right click it go to duplicate snap
it onto there and this Center this
little middle piece here we just take
that and get rid of that press Delete on
the keyboard and you get the idea you
can pretty much use this design with any
concept as long as you construct it with
strokes or outlines first so that's how
you can create something like that using
Inkscape so if you have any questions
let me know and as always thank you for
watching
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