Inkscape | How to make custom shapes | ⚡ Quickie ⚡

This short and sharp demo shows you how to make your own shapes in Inkscape by combining shapes in various ways or drawing and editing your own paths.

It was part of a series I was commissioned to make for The Edge at the State Library Queensland, and makes up a small part of a full course demonstrating the process of 3D printing from beginning to end.

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[StrangersOnALondonTrain]

Thank you for respecting your viewers' time! No intro clips and waiting for jingles to fade out, or tweaking shapes to find the perfect angle when it's completely irrelevant to the tutorial - just quick, concise, and well prepared instructions to help people along their way. If only all of YouTube was like this!

[joshmiller]

Not only is this the most informative Inkscape tutorial I’ve found, but it was less than 3 minutes long. Thank you

[turkstra]

Appreciate the tutorial. Short and simple. Cheers...

[goldenwidow]

Short, clear and to the point. Thank you.

[janaburke]

Oh my gosh! You explained to me in less than 2 minutes what other videos after 20 minutes never mention! Thank you!

[firstlast]

I normally prefer how-to's as a text and not a video, because I read things faster than most videos present things. But this is great. So much helpful information briefly explained. Just great.

[fe]

Thank you!! :-) this is the first thing I've learned about how to make vector art. Just converted my first image to vector manually. Great video!

[Orionrobots]

What is really cool about these is you can then use shapes you make as image masks.

[svtrrain]

This was super helpful!! Thank you so much!!!

[asmwarriorYT]

Very nice tutorial, simple to understand, and I have learned a lot from this tutorial, thanks.

[juanulloaduran]

this was helpful, thanks for sharing!

[ghostphrog]

You are literally a life saver omg! Thank you so much!!

[Ntvheart]

this was so helpful! and you're so good at taking your time with explaining calmly and in a phase thats easy to keep up with.

[DavidGillemo]

Omg, thank you, this was so helpful!

[AllTheStuffs-]

Thank you for sharing. This really helped.

[DDOCTORGaming]

This was really helpful, as im learning the basics of inkscape to create scalable images which i can use in logos :)

[rhomis]

I cannot get the handles to move. 1:39