![]() I spent a lot of hours trying more complex techniques that didn't seem to produce as good an effect, so hopefully my next "head shot" will go a whole lot quicker. The final technique was: a) identify an irregular shape with roughly the same tonal value, b) draw filled shape quickly with Bezier straight line tool, c) play with Blur and Lightness until it matches the desired tone well enough. draw object (in this case a rounded box) Middle image: go to Path > Stroke to Path to turn the path into an object go to Extensions > Modify Path > Add Nodes bottom image: go to Extensions > Modify Path > Jitter Nodes Play with the settings of the Extensions to tweak the 'scribble-ness' of the images to your liking. The shading is what I wasted the most time on because I wasn't thinking simply enough. Same copy/paste/shift/resize/rotate as with the head hair to be lazy about it. Once it dawned on me that the only way to get white whiskers was to back them with some darker tone, they were just fast drawing with the pencil tool ("triangle in", I think for little points the end that probably no one will notice anyway). The last step was selecting all the hair and playing with the Blur until the effect was pleasing. Copy and paste the dog image into your document by right clicking the image, selecting Copy, then right clicking in your document workspace area and selecting Paste. To vary the hair color, I would Shift-select several hairs here and there and give them a different tone to get a "streaking" effect. After all the head hair was drawn (not really that many), I selected all and simplified (Ctrl-L). For laziness, I might select a group of hairs, copy and paste to new location, shift/shrink/rotate as needed. The head hair was using the pencil tool with tablet, just drawing hair lines fast and imprecise. (or any drawing tool, such as Pencil) to carefully draw around the shape you wish to. The visible "pencil lines" are just drawn with the pencil tool, then adjust the tone and blur. I show you 17 different ways for croppping an image using Inkscape. ![]() The glasses are just typical geometric shapes that most people could do much better/quicker than me. Set the thickness and pencil shadow by using the slider according to the. Complex shapes for shading were almost always faster with the Bezier line draw, because there's going to be so much blur having a precision shape doesn't matter. Adobe Illustrator Draw is an award-winning drawing app with a variety of tools. The tablet was faster for hair and long lines (like outline of head). I used my cheap Huion tablet, but probably less than 10% of the time. #PENCIL DRAWING WITH INKSCAPE FULL#Here's a link to the full SVG (a bit big because it has the reference bitmap in it). ![]()
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