Inkscape Tutorial: Mosaic Art Made Easy

Inkscape tutorial hosted by Rick Johanson, showing you to create beautiful vector mosaic art from source images using Inkscape’s Tiled Clones feature. Follow along and learn the basics of Inkscape, including the how to do Tiled Clones Tracing and a special Align and Distribute spacing technique. Public domain art example in this video: The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

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[Inkscape-tutorial-pl]

Damn Rick, this is really clever. Existence of both tools is not a secret, but combining them is a thing! Thank you.

[GridIndustries]

Learning Inkscape for my decal/signage business and going through your playlist tutorials is super helpful! Thank you so much! Keep up the great work, your channel deserves a lot more views and subs! (I just subbed as well)

[shlomobachar]

This is crazy. Beautiful trick! Thanks for sharing!

[erikos]

This tutorial is super interesting. Also, your enthusiasm is so inspiring! Thanks again for your ideas.

[AlextheENTP]

Hi Rick, I haven't watched your newer videos since 1.3 came out because I'm still on 1.2. But eventually I had to come back and watch, because your tutorials are just so much fun. 😁

Hope you're well!

[wimdg]

wow, what a clever find AND a beautiful effect !!
i really like the second, distributed, organic looking version.
i'm so glad i found this channel ! 🙏

[geoffphil]

Very very clever technique! And it looks great. Thanks once again.

[Jelly-rjfz]

nice! so good to see you doing what we all do lots of times, crashing inkscape!! Boy do we feel your pain..thanks for the refresh, and wow ...who knew that little feature of overlap remove was there! haha

[atahanacik]

Hi Rick! I hope all is well. I am sure that I am not the only one waiting for a comprehensive map art video =) I thought you also love to make them. Long time no see :(

[CelticOneDesign]

That unset stroke/fill is also very important when working with symbols. I didn't discover that until a few weeks ago. Wish I known that 2 years ago. lol

[Astronomynatureandmusic]

The result of the video looks a bit different than what you show at the start. I like that start mosiac more - it looks like someone actually put those tiles in following invisible lines and curves - if you know what I mean. :) How did you create the one at the start?

[keepitshort]

Hows the blending multiple images together on inkscape ? Any video or reference?

[stevenskaggs]

What would be the best way to make a mosaic collage with chemical structures, like those seen in organic chemistry?

[kevinmickens]

If you don't mind me asking, do you have a video on saving designs to put on t-shirts? Reason I ask every time I save a design and get ready to use it the colors are way off. Can you help?

[TGFGamesta]

Tiled clone is massively underused. However, the more objects you use, the harder it is for your hardware so for anyone reading this, keep that in mind before setting tons of objects. If your PC/Mac/Laptop slows right down, reduce the amount of clones

[Fundamental_Islam.]

Is there a way to create money engrave effect in Inkscape?

[mitchhoneysett]

How to put text on a cylinder, sphere or mug

[graphguy]

Ok, it has been a month since you did a vid? What's up????

[TheFer-hjhb]

hey thanks for the video i'm always trying to replicate as soon as i can. But i run into an issue. All the clones come in 1 single row ( all 5500 ish of them ). I have all the settings the same as in your example.

[Fundamental_Islam.]

Can you make a video on how to generate textured backgrounds like vox has in its videos?