Inkscape for Beginners: Vector Checkered Flag

Create a vector checkered racing flag icon using Inkscape.

This tutorial is for Inkscape version 0.48 and is intended to teach you how to use the software.

[kimbartholomew]

I've done so many of your tuts that I can almost guess the next step. Thanks Nick.

[sithlordofVA]

Nick another great video. Thanks. My buddy asked me to do something for him and this was what I was looking for.

[bravekhan]

u are an angel man. thank u for teaching us and thank your mother who brought u in this world. bundle of love bro

[nhaze]

Thank you Nick, ones again you make it a lot easier than just me trying this on my own 😃👍

[drakkorvladimir]

WOW ! You are the BEST tutor ! I have been looking for how to do this for so long and now I FINALLY found your video. Just subscribed. Thank You : )

[VisitWithNanaAndPapa]

Thank you so much. Learned a ton in a very short time. Found a bunch of things I did not know existed. Thanks

[pietervanoostrum]

Thanks for your tutorials. I really like them.
In this tutorial the white rectangles are smaller than the black ones, basically because of the thickness of the dividing lines which add to the black rectangles. Is there an easy way to get them the same? I guess you can’t give the lines zero width.

[AmerijamAcres]

I’m trying to do something like this but with an American flag and a Jamaican flag. Is there a way to get flags to look waging?

[nadinewhite]

Thank you!

Everything went perfectly except for one thing (grrr!) Once I've made and selected for example a rectangle and duplicated it, SHIFT and the space bar fail to duplicate another copy in terms of a SINGLE copy. However, if I hold SHIFT and the space bar together, and drag my mouse down, I will create a bunch of copies dragging down the page.

Update - yes SHIFT and space bar DO work for me creating a single copy. However I have to press the space bar unreasonably hard on my keyboard to get a result and I only get a duplicate about every 10th time I try. Normal pressure does nothing. Perhaps I have a dodgy space bar.

[psychomonk]

Great Video as always ! One thing :
Can you tell me how to get the dark theme for Inkscape ? Mine is white and i think the black one is way more reassuring than the white one :)

[jersonatilo]

How in The ink do you Discover This things

[rskingfinding]

Wish you would had used gradiant over flag...Am finding that effect

[Dragenyx]

Ctrl Left Click and Spacebar doesn't work for me
(the duplicating through that)