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understanding butterfly technique
make an ubuntu by your own

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UNDERSTANDING BUTTERFLY TECHNIQUE

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One of the most frequently used technique by graphic designer is mirroring and duplicating. Because mirroring combined with duplicating is the only way to make each side of our work being symmetrical. In this tutorial, I'll try to explain a bit about how combination of both two basic techniques used in certain way when we works in inkscape to make our custom symmetrical shape. Hope this tutorial worth for beginner inkscape user. Enjoy! (Get PDF Version here ) . The Main Idea The main idea in this tutorial is to make a half butterfly wing-like shape first, then duplicate and mirror it to make the simple butterfly shape. And there is a step by step instruction.... Step One Make a shape just like picture below with bezier tool (b). Step Two Pick the shape, then edit the nodes (f2) to make it like picture below. Step Three Now, we need to make the right side straight. To accomplish this step, simply drag a guideline from the left document ruler. Then make a rec...
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MAKE AN UBUNTU LOGO BY YOUR OWN

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Foreword Ubuntu is one of the big and famous gnu/linux distro in the world. Everybody who use linux for their desktop needs 99,9% know this distro. Ubuntu has unique yet simple logo design. In this article, I will explain how to make an ubuntu logo by your own hands. Enough talk, just fire up your linux box and start your lovely inkscape program, then have fun! (Get PDF version here ). Investigation The ubuntu logo implemented a very basic rotating technique. It consist of one 120 degree punched donut shape and three circle surrounding the main donut shape that punch the main donut shape too. Another simple things is it using just three different color. To make this logo, we just need 9 circles and 3 rectangles. Quite simple isn't it? Lets do it! Step One Make a three circles (e-drag+hold ctrl) with three different size. Select all these circles (ctrl+a) then align them (ctrl+shift+a) to horizontal and vertical axis. We call this three circle as group A. This group will be t...
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TRACE MARIE CAT'S HEAD

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Foreword Disney has numerous famous characters. And one of cutest disney character in my opinion is Marie Cat, from the “Aristocats” movie. In this tutorial, I'll try to show you how to do manual trace to the Marie Cat's low resolution picture source with powerful inkscape's live path effect feature. For those who are cartoonist wannabe, check this tutorial out! Main Idea The idea behind this tutorial is to trace Marie Cat's low resolution picture with bezier path in every single line we've found. Then give all the bezier paths the powerful inkscape's live path effect until match what we need. Read the rest of this post if you so curious :) Step 1 Get this marie cat's low resolution picture below first. Then import (ctrl+i) to your inkscape working area.  Step 2 Then make an ellipse, color it green, then do butterfly technique to make our “brush” in future step. Do not know what is butterfly technique yet? Check this post . Step 3 Then begin manual tra...
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