Inkscape Tutorial: How to Make Watercolor Star Chart | Night Sky Star Map (Stellarium Data)

Inkscape step-by-step beginner, intermediate-advanced tutorial on how to create a custom star chart Night Sky wall art DIY project with watercolor effect, featuring the constellation, Orion. Follow along in this Inkscape screen capture showing how to:

1. Use Stellarium to find your star data based on chosen time and place.
2. Watercolor effect settings to create your customized night sky.
3. Modify gradient tool for desired color range.
4 Felt Texture effect setting to create colorful cosmos.
5. Make a vector file from the Stellarium data inside of Inkscape.
6. Clip and Crop your stars to fit the night sky background.

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[conc]

very valuable as your all other tutorials, thanks 👍

[somecunninglinguist]

I’ve started watching you as my bed time video to pick up tricks lol

[helynoftroy]

Just learning inkscape and doing different projects like this really help getting the more than just the basics down. Thank you! 😊

[spizzolante]

EXCELLENT tutorial! Very clear... and the end result... OMG!!! 👏👏👏

[harshamishra]

Loved ur
Can make a tutorial on vector portrait....cuz a lot of people only draw the stuff....nobody teaches ....so...pls...make one..., 💜💜

[SantoshKumar-lsbm]

Great tutorial Rick, I tried this and it came out beautiful, thanks once again.

[serpantinthewild]

wow, this is exactly what I've been looking for... Thank You

[ptredhead]

Resizing locks the pattern! Thank you! That was driving me nuts. You've just made those filters way more usable. Preesh

[akkkkk]

Excellent artwork! Thank you for your guide.

[yugarthsharma]

You Deserve More Views And Awesome Work Btw :D

[john_jarvis]

I was just looking for the next inkscape project to do and looks like I'm right on time for this one :D thanks man!

[imdxpertm]

another great tutorial. Rick you explain things very clearly. Space, sky, desert, city, you did all. How about doing a Poster on green fields or forest ?🙏🏼

[ankekellerman]

Please can you do some more tutorials on watercolour art using photos? Would love to see and try that!

[RobertWF]

Thank you for posting this video, very helpful!

I'm planning on drawing a galaxy with a hex grid overlay in Inkscape for my DIY board game.

Thinking I could copy & paste to link together the nebula and star patterns into spiral arms.

[saeedbeyramy]

Thanks for the video
What is your document size?

[PINKALIMBA]

Can you do a illustration tutorial with very organic feel to it? Like when you are using Inkscapes preset polygon / shape tool or the line tool, all the edges are very smooth and sharp curves. Would love to know how to have slight uneven edges without the need to have a pen stylus or a drawing pad. Now I'm using node tool to manually change hundreds if not thousands of the shapes to make it looks more natural.

[ijp]

This is amazing. What is your starting size for this project?

[rajmehta]

hey Rick great tutorial as always!! When I try to export the design (png), the computer hangs for 5 minutes and then only exports one third of the image. Have you experienced anything like this before? I am running the latest version of Inkscape

[Aitimoney]

Do you have a course that is built around Inkscape.

[sohom-]

Can you help me with how to take a screenshot from stellarium? While importing, a blank image is coming without the stars.