Grinning skull, drawn with Inkscape

I used the photo of a skull as reference, but then did my own creation with Inkscape. I practised again with gradients. I thought about adding a flower hanging out of the skull's mouth, but that may be done later.

Another cute little creature

This little creature was not planned - it was born in the process of playing around with gradients in Inkscape. Just now I am deeply in love with this open source vector software. I am continuously learning, which is fun. 

 

Another little monster

At the moment Inkscape is my favourite tool to do illustrations. This cute green monster vector drawing is based on a pen and ink drawing. I scanned the drawing and vectorized it, not without changing a bit here and there. 

 

Mermaid

I had worked on this mermaid in Inkscape in 2020. However I was not satisfied with the result, but I still had it on my harddrive. Just a few days ago I decided to give it a new try. I noticed how much about Inkscape I had learnt in these two years. And I learnt that it is important to keep these files even if one wants to throw them into the bin. 

 

Three flying bats Mug

 In one of my former posts I showed you the vector image of the flying bat. I used it for a mug on Zazzle;

Three flying bats Halloween
by ullahennig

Bat

Bat-creature, created with Inkscape

I must admit that I have my difficulties with the gradient tool in Inkscape. But I somehow forgot that there is a tool in Inkscape called "Gradient Mesh" which - in my humble opinion - makes it far easier to create gradient effects. Fortunately there are a number of videos on YouTube which explain how Gradient Mesh works, and after having watched some of them I am kind of hooked on that tool.

The bat above is still work in progress - there are a few things which have to be worked on still.

 

Whimsical Waterbird Magnet

 

Vacation prep | Whimsical waterbird
by ullahennig

In August I went back to Inkscape after a long period of not doing any vector art. I had been doing "traditional art" instead - painting with acrylics, gouache, watermedia and such. It took me some time to get used to this open source vector program again, but fortunately there are loads of Inkscape tutorials on YouTube!