Drawing to Vector - Inkscape

In this tutorial I run through the whole process of taking a pencil sketch, converting it to a vector graphic and adding colour and shading. I’ll be adding a background that I downloaded from pixabay – adjusting it to blend with my digital art.

Creating vector art from a hand-drawn image is made simple with Inkscape's Trace Bitmap function – I show you how to take a photo or scan of your hand-drawn image and quickly convert it to a vector file or SVG (scalable vector graphic). I demonstrate how you can clean up your image with the eraser tool and the freehand drawing tool, I show you how you can add colour and shading to your image using layers to protect your line drawing and filling with the paint bucket tool. I also add a small offset to make sure I’ve completely filled my line art. I show you how to turn your filled areas into clip groups so you can add more colours and blurring without spilling out onto the surrounding canvas.

This tutorial covers some neat little tricks such as copying and pasting gradients, using the eraser tool to split up the elements of your line drawing, moving selected objects to another layer and more…

In this tutorial, I’m using the latest version of Inkscape – Inkscape 1.2.1

A little bit of knowledge can go a long way.

Follow along with ‘Create For Free’ to create your own artwork – for Cricut, print on demand goods, low content publishing, T-shirt designs, etc.

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Intro Music: Find Your Way Beat - Nana Kwabena

Inkscape logo by Andrew Michael Fitzsimon

[StephenBoyd]

Wow, that was an amazing demonstration of just how powerful Inkscape can be.

[JW-qgve]

Beautifully organized and detailed video. Even the image you chose to teach with was fun and engaging! I am new to Inkscape, which has a learning curve (!), but was able to complete a sample drawing. Happy to see you have more videos! Cricut, print on demand, low content pub, and free ! exactly what I am looking for. You are the bomb diggity. Thank you!! ....and the angels sang, Hallelujah!

[MaisieStirfry]

Thank you so much, this was incredibly helpful. I'm off to check out your other videos now!

[arikabearika]

I want to thank you for doing an actually helpful tutorial. I am so glad that there are still people out there who just make good, solid, no nonsense content. I really appreciate your work. You're awesome!

[anneoflaherty]

That was a fantastic clear cut tutorial. I followed along and didn't get lost, frustrated or annoyed.
Many thanks

[anthonyjones]

The only problem I have with this is that I can LIKE it only once... Excellent! Really clarified some tools that I have not used before.

[tainteddaisie]

After getting very frustrated with the software but understanding its potential, THANK YOU for the tutorial!

[khawajairshadnabi]

Very informative tutorial
Thanks and keep it up learning a lot from you

[crisl]

Thank you, this was immensely helpful. I am trying to digitize my hand drawn art with Inkscape, and while I like what it can do, it can be a bit overwhelming. I appreciate your calm and straightforward style of explaining things, which makes it so much easier to follow along and learn. Definitely subscribing to your channel.🙂

[armandaberlin]

brilliant! This video is perfect!! THANK YOU!

[jayescreations]

way above my skill level. maybe some day I will get there.

[allartsystuff]

Great tutorial!! How do we remove the black outlines if they are not required after converting from png to vector?

[peakypeakaboo]

I am facing this one problem the thing is whatever i draw which is closed figure it gets filled with black like even if i try to draw a square it is filled with the colour i m drawing with

[adamgraff]

Please help me! I uploaded my sketch, but when I go to Trace Bitmap. The preview only shows a few very faint lines of my drawing..Is it because my sketch isn't darkened enough? Do I need to go over the whole drawing with a marker or something?

[berkyasuk]

Hello! Firstly, i want to thank you to for the informative and fluent video! I'm a beginner at inkscape and i'm tryin to color my illustrations and i have question to you, if you can offer a solution i'll be happy and thankful... I filled all the gaps on my lines (whose are black) and i painted inner of lines with brown (like you), then i clicked "union" button, but this filling space of browns turned black. It seems to me like when i clicked union button, all the fill and stroke settings also matched, i want to "group" them but also edit as a hole vector... Why my "union" doesn't work like yours, whats your opinion?

[StoneHazeCraze]

Could you please help me? I sublimate t-shirts and a majority of photos or illustrations are all square or rectangle .
I'm wanting to have the photo flow or more blend out into the tshirt .. plz could you do a video 🙏🙏🙏

[SeferovAzer]

Hello everyone👋🏻👏🏻🤲. I have some questions about Inkscape, first of all, well done, amazing picture, amazing vector, amazing poster thank you very much, Create for free 👋🏻👍👏🏻🤲.
1️⃣) Before downloading Inkscape, Is it ok to use it in the browser? Otherwise, it is necessary to download the hökmen.
2️⃣)Is it possible to use Inkscape in the browser, if possible, take advantage of all its features, right?
3️⃣)Inkscape with everything, is it really free or discounted? thank you very much, God bless you 👏🏻🤲.