Full Inkscape Beginner Course (Old Inkscape Version 1.3)

In this tutorial I'll show you how to use Inkscape. This full course is meant to teach you the basics by giving you little design projects to work on. Try to work through 1 or 2 chapters a day and you've learned a new skill by the end of the month.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:07 1 | Installation
2:14 2 | Basic Settings
6:19 3 | First Steps
18:31 4 | Rectangle Tool
30:51 5 | Zoom, Group, Blend
37:30 6 | Text Intro, Blur, Drop Shadow, Creating a Button
42:26 7 | Circles and Ellipses, Creating an Emoji
48:31 8 | Pie Charts
53:37 9 | Hexagon, Set Clips
59:55 10 | Shield, Triangle, Rounded Corners LPE
1:03:47 11 | Stars
1:12:34 12 | 3D Box Tool Basics
1:15:11 13 | Image Clipping
1:18:06 14 | Image Cut-Outs
1:21:15 15 | Eye Dropper Tool
1:23:04 16 | Spiral Tool
1:26:31 17 | Bezier/Pen Tool
1:33:10 18 | Nodes and Arrows
1:41:10 19 | Gradients
2:01:39 20 | Pencil/Caligraphy Tool
2:03:45 21 | Text Tool
2:10:16 22 | Easy Text Effects
2:22:47 23 | Path Text Effects
2:30:54 24 | Multi-Outline Effect
2:34:15 25 | Long Shadow
2:39:48 26 | Lorem Ipsum Generator
2:41:00 27 | Spellchecker
2:42:55 28 | Install New Fonts
2:45:44 29 | Binary Operations
2:51:40 30 | Rotate
2:57:15 31 | Shapebuilder
3:03:15 32 | Editing Images
3:11:48 33 | Tracing Bitmap
3:14:10 34 | Paint Bucket Tool
3:15:59 35 | Tweak Tool
3:19:09 36 | Barcode
3:20:46 37 | QR Code
3:22:11 38 | Extensions Examples
3:25:08 39 | NiceCharts
3:31:00 40 | Pages Tool
3:33:52 41 | Spray Tool
3:38:22 42 | Intro to other Tools
3:41:55 43 | Align and Distribute
3:48:10 44 | Pattern
3:50:58 45 | Shoutout and Outro
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Links to resources mentioned in the video:
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Shoutout to other helpful channels on YouTube:
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Music by Silent Partner
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[anubisystems]

It took me three full days to watch all this full tutorial and try all the features, I also update Inkscape to the 1.4 version. Now I feel confident to start developing my own designs, thank you so much for sharing such a complete tutorial and for taking the time to teach us how this amazing tool works!

[shwaybotx]

New to Inkscape here, 25 year Linux user. I've been taking your tutorial, and it's just what the doctor ordered. Thank you. I hope you get a million subscribers.

[jotacalvo]

You, sir, are a lifesaver! I just dove into this last night withmy first download of the program. I’m going to be using it for an embroidery machine and already downloaded the ink stitch plug in.

To put it lightly, I’m overwhelmed. But so looking forward to learning this program. I’ve spent countless hours designing racing liveries on a racing video game (Crew 2) and this seems almost like a logical next step, albeit a big one.

Thanks so much for the clear explanations.

(I must add that the program defaults after install had me baffled for the first hour. It wouldn’t show any object that I would create, such as a rectangle. Only the dotted lines would show. My opacity was up to 100%, all the settings seemed correct as per the videos I watched. I played with all the color palates, nothing. I got frustrated, killed the open windows, reopened a new window and it all of a sudden worked. I don’t know what happened. It’s working now, but I’m terrified it will do it again. Otherwise, it is an impressive program considering that it is open source.)

[rocky-fuller]

I first used this program in middle school when I got my first Wacom drawing tablet (so a good 18-19 years ago) bc I couldn't draw lineart to save my life. So I looked up programs that would help out, and this popped up. While it took some time to place lines and edit the nodes to make perfect lines, it was well worth it. Inkscape was my first digital art program experience before I got Paint Tool SAI 1 and yesterday I decided to return to my roots and try this out again, but not just for lineart

I look forward to watching this tutorial; thank you!

[anubisystems]

Great tutorial, Michael Brig! 🎨👏 Thanks to you, I have learned to use Inkscape effectively. Your explanations are clear and precise. Congratulations on creating such valuable and helpful content! 🙌✨

[joelrob]

Merci Michael 🥰. Le Meilleur INkscape You-Tubeur

[radekcrlik]

You have my immense gratitude for this video. First, I thought about reading the docs but it felt kinda overwhelming and confusing. Thanks to your video I can see what each option does in practise.

[roisinkelly]

i begin to look at the video - clear speaking is important thanks for making it possible :)

[cpm-freeware]

Complete overview - very beginner friendly - well done: Thank you :)

[suprovfoysal]

Great and clean teaching.
Allah bless you 💓

[Paulo.Durano]

Learning Inkscape online in the Philippines. Thank you.

[mauricej]

Excellent tutorial so far. It has already improved my workflow. Thank you.

[TheLordemp]

It's a great tutorial Michael but it would help if you would identify the buttons on the tools to describe what you're doing, that would be great.

[arpanchatterjee-zo]

An excellent video .I am subscribing you now. It would be helpful to see more videos on creating 3D realistic shapes using Inkscape.

[toddlask]

great job on this and your channel! any thoughts about doing a beginners gimp video? id love that!

[thomasnguyen]

Thanks for awesome video. I would like to ask if you have any video to help create any type of ruler?

[Sigurdinus]

Thank you very much for the informative tutorial! I encountered a problem: If i convert stroke to path with text, it introduces weird, elongated triangles to the stroke. Many of these text effects dont work. Tested it on 2 different computers and on win 10 and wind 11. Any known workarounds?

[rahatullah]

Thank you
Thanks a lot.
On behalf of students of third world countries, I thank you

[grim]

Hey man can you make a video on how to do multi layer designs for like a mandala or a map. I want to make them for my laser engraver and be able to stack the layers. However I cannot find one good video on the process. Either way you got a sub from me man good stuff.

[josef]

Hey Michael, I downloaded your Inkscape Tutorial, great work, I thank you a lot! Q: do you know anything about Sketch for Mac OS? I'm trying to get me a complete tutorial for this.