Hi, Not sure whether to ask this here or in users...
I sketch a cartoon (with the mouse) and I like to use the single path line (pencil) tool to do it -- mainly because I can clean the lines quickly. If I use the calligraphy tool it;'s nice, but hard to tweak.
I have found that the freehand line tool in Sodipodi actually works far better for this. It has a "weight", a slowness to it that produces fantastic lines and curves and with only a few nodes to tweak.
Naturally, the rest of Sodipodi is in the Dark Ages and I prefer Inkscape, but that single tool is more useful in the older app.
I see that Calligraphy has a 'weight' setting, and this does help, but is there some way to weight the freehand line tool in Inkscape?
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Donn disegnò:
I sketch a cartoon (with the mouse) and I like to use the single path line (pencil) tool to do it -- mainly because I can clean the lines quickly. If I use the calligraphy tool it;'s nice, but hard to tweak.
I have found that the freehand line tool in Sodipodi actually works far better for this. It has a "weight", a slowness to it that produces fantastic lines and curves and with only a few nodes to tweak.
Maybe another solution could be just to use the "Simplify" command (Ctrl-L) to reduce the number of nodes of your lines after you've drawn them.
I sketch a cartoon (with the mouse) and I like to use the single path line (pencil) tool to do it -- mainly because I can clean the lines quickly. If I use the calligraphy tool it;'s nice, but hard to tweak.
I have found that the freehand line tool in Sodipodi actually works far better for this. It has a "weight", a slowness to it that produces fantastic lines and curves and with only a few nodes to tweak.
Maybe another solution could be just to use the "Simplify" command (Ctrl-L) to reduce the number of nodes of your lines after you've drawn them.
I end-up having to do that. It's hard to get a "controlled sketch" look with the pencil tool without having some form of "weight" to the tip of the pencil. In the end, I draw a rough shape and then go into node-edit and tweak and reduce and so on. It breaks the flow of drawing, but there seems to be no other option.
Really, if you can install sodipodi (it's in the Ubuntu repos) -- try out the pencil tool; it's marvelous!
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On 10/17/07, Donn <donn.ingle@...400...> wrote:
I have found that the freehand line tool in Sodipodi actually works far better for this. It has a "weight", a slowness to it that produces fantastic lines and curves and with only a few nodes to tweak.
This is because Sodipodi was changed to use the same algorithm for pencil as for calligraphic. It was one of the last changes before the project died. If anyone thinks it's a good idea you can port over that code to Inkscape.
This is because Sodipodi was changed to use the same algorithm for pencil as for calligraphic. It was one of the last changes before the project died. If anyone thinks it's a good idea you can port over that code to Inkscape.
Oh for some spare time (and brains) :)
BTW - I don't mean to dis Inkscape in any way by mentioning Sodipodi - Ink is just light years better in every way.
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