12/17/2023 0 Comments Inkscape tutorials maps![]() Some surfaces, opposed to the light source, are darker. Using the same line tool draw a closed polygon under the outline representing a surface:įill the polygon with a gradient, taking care of the light source and direction: Lock the layer containing the outline (I also named it Outline for easier identification), we don't want it to stay in our way, and create a new layer (I named it "Colors") below it, this will be used further: The outline is ready, it can be used "as is" in a black and white map or we can go further and add color: Select all, zoom in, and delete unwanted nodes to clean and simplify the drawing: ![]() This particular house is a Jail House, I don't feel like the bars at the window are enough to suggest this, so I zoomed in again and draw (with the same straight lines converted to paths) a lock at the door: Convert strokes to paths and edit nodes just like in the steps above:Ĭontinue adding details (straight lines converted to paths) until you are happy with the result: ![]() With the same line tool draw straight lines add some details. Now we have the basic shape of the building: Zoom in and delete unwanted nodes at the joints: Select all the paths and perform an union operation ( Path > Union): Make the main outlines thicker and the secondary thinner: Zoom in, delete unneeded nodes and adjust the width and position of the outline for each path. Select all ( Ctrl + A) and convert strokes to paths ( Path > Stroke to Path): The lines are either parallels with the contour of the starting perspective plane or verticals: ![]() With the line tool (Bezier) draw straight lines to define the overall shape of the building. Since I used an old Inkscape version, without angled guides, the first step was to draw a perspective plane, to help with the perspective of the rest of the image: On the course of this process a simple building, a jailhouse will be drawn, starting with the black and white contours, adding a number of small details and finishing with coloring. There are many alternate paths one can take, like draw the outline using the calligraphic tool, simplify the nodes automatically, fill with the paint bucket or color with plain colors instead of gradients. This is not exactly a tutorial, is more a "'how it's made" (or "making of"), the steps below are an illustration of my Inkscape workflow used to create the clipart set, I won't pretend this is the best process, or even a good or simple process, is exactly that: an illustration of my own workflow. So it was a hard decision to write this piece, which comes as a conclusion to my quest to create a RPG tileset of over 50 clipart images, a decision I made mostly because I already was asked about how I made the images and expect even more questions in the future. It's been a while since I wrote a tutorial (in fact quite a while, as "wrote" != "published") and that was for good reason: I was not able to come with a tutorial fitting the rest of my my tutorial site and did not want to break the tradition.
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