In this lecture, I will show you how to create amazing, unique brushes in Inkscape using the pencil
tool and how to use the pencil tool in general.
So it's called a free hand tool or the benzyl tool, as the icon shows, and you can just create simple
lines with it.
I think the pencil tool is the first two people grab when they start using SCAP because it's so familiar,
you just pull it and create a line with it and that's it.
Let me turn this into a stroke and show you how amazingly smooth line I can roll with my mouse in Inkscape.
OK, it's a bit of a lie and I will tell you in a second.
But first, I want to show you how easy it is to edit, because whatever you create with the pencil
to this line is already a path.
You see, it's nice and smooth.
And I can edit out the curves so I don't have to go to path object to path like I did before because
this is already a path.
OK, so why I said that I was a bit of a lie when I said that I can draw such smooth lines.
It's because usually when we draw with the pencil tool we use that the smoothing.
Hi, what is height 20 20 something is high.
It means that it will smooth out my lines if I make it lower.
You can see already some extra nodes are appearing.
What if I said it even lower?
What if I said it to absolutely down, you see, my drawing is looking already a bit shaky, not as
smooth and beautiful as I did before.
So whatever you do with the pencil to an Inkscape, they care about the smoothing, if you want to keep
the little details and shakiness are actually the you're following your movements perfectly.
Then take down the smoothness if you want.
Beautiful dynamic lines take the smoothness up.
But notice that there is a lot of things that will disappear.
A lot of details.
OK, and why am I talking about the pencil?
All because when you draw with the panacea tool, you can set the line style, the stroke style two
to none, which is just a line, or you can say triangle in triangle out to create a line with a triangle
stretched along it.
You see, this looks like a brush already.
So the presets are already great, I could really draw something nice with it, I can using this ellipse,
for example, I can draw a little I could ink a whole cartoon character.
I like it.
But what I want to show you, I think is even more creative and it can have a lot of fun.
You can have a lot of fun with it, actually, and it can have a lot of impact on your art.
So let's create a rectangle and turn it into a path, object to path and then just select it and heat
control, see to copy it, put it on the clipboard.
Yeah.
So control and then when I'm using the pencil to select.
The shape select from clipboard, so whatever I draw now, it will be this exact rectangle, part of
a rectangle stretched along the line.
And if I added it when I edited, added this path, it will move with it.
It is amazing.
When I first learned about this one in Inkscape, I was like, wow, I can create my own brushes, I
can make anything for anything.
And not just that.
If you look at this, there is a dot here.
Here in the triangle, which is not there, the first line also it's here, I can set the thickness
of the line even after I was drawing it.
I can edit the shape of the line a bit like how thick I want it.
And I can do the same with my arm drawing the square I used here.
Let me fix it a bit, OK, so I can edit the notes, I can move the path up and down, I can reshape
it a bit and I can play with the thickness of the drawing applied along the path, OK?
And whatever I draw, it will be the next in the next line.
It will apply the same and same path and also it will keep the same thickness.
So let's get back to zero.
So don't use anything and make a weird path.
Yeah, just a little puff cloud, whatever it is.
Let's make it a bit even more of.
So I deleted and I make something even more wavy with less smoothing.
OK, nice.
Controversy to put it on the clipboard.
And use the drawing from the clipboard along the path.
And here it is.
This is our first stroke with an applied brush, it's not called a brush officially, but this is what
we did.
And I can play with the thickness, I can play with the shape of it, and, yeah, I can use it in any
drawing, just imagine the possibilities.
You have a sketch and you just want to paint it in this and that style, drawing it in this in the style.
Then you just put it into Inkscape and create another brush.
I will show you another one, so let's go non.
And Robert, zigzaggy part, a bit of the opposite of what we did before.
Co-pilot, obviously.
Put it on the clipboard.
So just controversy, it's on the board.
And then I go back to the pencil tool and ask Inkscape to use what is on the board and that's it.
It's a different path.
It looks different than the previous one is the same shape of the line, but the brush is different.
You see, I can play with it, I can create cartoon like effect or cartoon boxes with this, I could
ink a whole comic book if I really want to.
So Inkscape has only a few different brushes, this triangle in triangle, but you can do so much more.
So let's again create something different, and this is just me playing around and being creative with
this, I'm also experimenting with how would this line look, how would this line look, you know,
so I'm just creating now a little dots and then I go to Path Union to merge them into one path because
you can only select one path to be applied on the pencil and the pencil, too.
So I like this one.
Rotated a bit, so I know that this will be applied when I pull the pencil from left to right controversy
and put it under par.
And if you don't believe me, is it really the same shape, let me draw a very, very short path.
You see, it is the same path I did before this little dots merge together.
That is the same object stretched along this line.
So let's just keep this one to show you how many different pop I can have.
And again, I can play with the thickness here.
So even after I was drawing the line, I can create different thicknesses.
I already have a few lined versions, but let's get back to this and create some more.
One of my favorite is this one.
It's thick in the middle and on the edge.
It's like has this braschi splatter effect.
And again, just be creative with it.
Let me make a little hole here.
Even just made a out like both of them.
And I go to PAF different to cut a hole in this.
And then select all of them and go path union.
It's such an easy shape, you know, I'm not sweating it and you shouldn't do either because this is
just fun and being creative with the shape and then see how it behaves when you want to use it as a
brush.
So you know the drill now controversy and put it on the line.
Now, this is good as a straight line.
This is good as a bend the curve, I could imagine this could be the ibro character or use it on some
very thin line here.
And there are some shading of the face would be very, very nice.
Well, let's move it up with the other ones, so what else what can I do?
What can you do?
Let's create the same splatter effect, but in triangular shape.
It's a grandey triangle I created because I can do the same thing as they do with the triangle in a
triangle out, but now it looks it's it's a brush.
So it's more random looking.
Let's put this muteness up a bit so there are no little overreporting here.
You see amazing, it looks like I am really just using a brush.
This one already looks like it could be part of a little cartoon character.
OK, so this triangle is just to be different than this one.
So when I'm using triangle in, triangle out, you see, it's using the same effect is just my triangle
is a bit.
Yeah, funky.
Let's create something even more different and combine this triangle with the little things I made that
make it a splatter, regrind your triangle.
Just create some dots here and there, but arrange them in the shape of a triangle.
So what I'm aiming for and on the left, it's a bit thinner and on the right is going thicker and thicker
and how it will splash.
Now select all of them and Gopalnath Union to merge them into one path, because this affect is only
working if you select exactly one path.
OK, so just control C to put it on the clipboard and again ask them to use it from the clipboard.
And this is how it looks.
You see, you have the triangle effect and it is a bit sketchy.
Braschi, so it is not as sterile as it is with the triangle Inkscape, as if I make it thinner, it
looks like I'm using a felty pan even.
This is how much I have now, and I think the possibilities are really, unless you can play with so
much, but this was my triangle in if I duplicate the original shape and flip it around, draw a bead
on it still to make it more interesting.
Yes, like this had some corners here and there.
Merge it together with Control Plus or Path Union, you see.
Now I can control see, so keep it on the board and try how it looks if I am drawing the same thing
you see now the triangle is flipped.
It's coming from right to left instead of left.
Right.
So, so many possibilities.
Let's do something with circles.
You see, this one is and this is a basic form, you don't have to do it, but if you want to play with
ellipses, you can still create this little puffy cloud.
What if on the edges is thinner and in the middle it has these puffy effect?
So I'm just throwing a few ellipses circles on each other and I merge them together with both union.
Make it a bit smaller controversy, and I'm eager to see how it will look.
OK.
From Clybourn.
OK, looks nice enough.
Hope you had fun creating these interesting brushes, and I hope you created yours, play with it and
enjoy them and create new ones because in the next lecture, we will put them to use.