Inkscape Tutorial: Line Art Logo Text

this is Nick with logos by Nick comm and in today's tutorial I'll be demonstrating how you can create this line art text using Inkscape so I'll go ahead and get started here in Inkscape by the way if you'd like to know how you can update ink scapes appearance with this dark theme and these customized icons I'll have a link to that information in the description of the video so the first thing we want to do is just make up make sure we have our document set up with this similar view is how I have it on my screen so we first want to go to document properties I'm sure that again file document properties and set the display units to pixels we want the page border turned off and then go ahead and close out of that and then we want to go to view make sure we have custom selected zoom in at 1 to 1 that will open up the align and distribute menu from this button right here we're gonna want a less selected chosen from that drop-down and then we'll open up the Edit objects colors gradients and Stroke menu with that button right there and finally we want to come up here to where it says enable snapping we want to make sure we have that turned on and we want snap to snap to custom nodes we want that turned on and snap to smooth nodes as well and once we've done that let me go to view zoom 1 to 1 we want the first thing we're going to do is create a circle so let me grab the circles and ellipses tool I'm gonna hold ctrl + shift on the keyboard and click and drag on the canvas to create a perfectly round circle like that and I'm gonna bring the opacity of that down about in half and what I'm gonna do now is let me go back to the Select tool I'm going to convert this to a path by going to path object to path and I'm gonna give this a black outline and get rid of the black fill color so to do that I'm gonna click on this red X right here and that's going to get rid of the fill color and then I'm gonna hold shift and click on the black shade right there right next to it to give it an outline and what I'll do next is I'll come up here to where it says stroke style and let me change the increments there to pixels I want to set this stroke width to 1010 and hit enter and up here the next thing we want to do and this is important when scaling objects scale the stroke width by the same proportion we that turned off for the duration of this tutorial and once we've done that I'm gonna take this circle right here and I'm gonna change the width of it to 200 pixels both but before I do that I want to make sure I have this lock icon turned on which is going to lock the proportions both the width and the height so I'm going to turn that on and then change the width to 200 and once we've done that I'm going to duplicate that by right-clicking it and going to duplicate and I'm gonna make this one 250 it's a to 500 and hit enter and I'll duplicate that again but instead of right-clicking it and going to duplicate it I'll just hit control D and I'll make this one 300 control ctrl D to make another copy we're gonna make this one 350 and then we'll do one more duplicate ctrl D make this one 400 so we should have five different circles here in 50 pixel increments from 200 to 400 like that and once we've done that I'm gonna click and drag over all of those circles and I'm gonna Center them up on the vertical and horizontal axis like that and with that we're gonna go to path where is it we're looking for combine there it is path combined and what I'm gonna do now is grab the bezzie a pen which is right here you can press it B on the keyboard to grab that and I'm gonna snap the cursor onto the right side of this circle right here go ahead and click to create a point and then hold ctrl and just bring the line straight through like that and go ahead and click again and now we can let go of control and finish up this shape going around the outside of the object and then snap it back to the starting point and once we've done that I'm going to grab the select tool hold shift click on our little series of circles right there and go to path cut path and once we've done that we can click off that the deselect everything actually you know what let me click and drag over everything - to reselect them we want everything selected and then I'm gonna go to the edit pads by nodes tool keyboard shortcut for that would be the letter n on the keyboard and I'm gonna click and drag over all of those nodes and I want to insert new nodes between all of them so I wanna come up here to where it says insert new nodes into selected segments go ahead and click that and we should have a whole bunch of new nodes in there and once we've done that I'm gonna grab this select tool and I'm gonna click off of the graphic to deselect everything what I want to do now is I just I want to select just the top half of these circles right here so I'm gonna bring the cursor outside of the shapes and hold shift and alt on the keyboard and click and drag to draw a line going through those shapes and it's going to select everything that we drew that line from and I'm going to take these shapes and just snap them over to the right side over here what you want to do you know what I should probably go back make sure you have everything selected under the stroke style tab if you notice here the ends of the hold on the ends of these are rounded and they're not square like that to make sure they're round to just choose rounded cap right here where it says cap just choose the center one round cap let me put that back over here and I'll just snap these back on there and that's what we're looking for right there now if you want to zoom in and out I'm just holding ctrl and rolling up and down the mouse wheel to move the page around and pressing down the mouse wheel and moving the mouse so this is gonna be the left this is gonna be the the bottom portion of the letter L we're gonna create this straight part of this momentarily but this is gonna be the O right here so I'm gonna duplicate these shapes right here actually now I'll duplicate these shapes I'm gonna hold shift and alt and draw a line through those hit control D to duplicate and snap these onto here and now I'm gonna hold shift and alt and draw a line through all of these right here it controls you to duplicate them and I'm gonna put these over here so this is gonna be the letter L this is the letter O this is the letter G and I'm gonna duplicate this one more time hit control D snap these over here like that and then we have the basis for the word logo here so I'm gonna create the bottom portion of the letter G next so let me click off that to deselect everything I'm gonna hold shift and alt and click and drag a line through these bottom shapes and duplicate them by hitting ctrl D and I just want to bring them down here so I'm gonna hold ctrl on the keyboard and just click and drag these down here about that far and let me just I want to connect these together now with straight segments so I'm gonna zoom in on this area by holding ctrl and rolling up the mouse let me click off of that to deselect everything I'm gonna grab the Bezier pen now and I'm going to snap to this endpoint right here and click and snap to this portion of the of the circle right there straight up straight up to the endpoint of that top circle right there and then press ENTER on the keyboard and I want to make the stroke with ten pixels and give that a rounded cap as well I'll bring the opacity of that down a little bit I'm going to create four more copies of that and just connect them to each of these ends here so I'm gonna go back to the Select tool hit control D to copy that to duplicate that snap it on to there make another duplicate again just pressing ctrl D on the keyboard to create duplicates and I want to do the same thing to create the straight portion of the letter L over here so let me you know what I'm gonna hold shift and alt and just draw a line through those shapes right there and duplicate all of them hit control D bring them over here so what I'm going to do now is remove the intersecting area of these lines so that it looks like these letters are all connected and they're kind of just you know looping around and going around each other up and over sort of like that so to do that what I first want to do is I'm gonna delete the portion of these lines over here I want to make it look like these this letter O is connected to the this letter L is connected to the letter O like that so I need to clear out everything that's in the in the that's in its path so to do that I'm gonna hold it shift and alt click and drag over those lines to Deesa to to uh select them and go to path combine then I'll take this bottom shape down here hit ctrl D to duplicate that hold shift click on that group of shapes and go to path cut path and then I'll hold shift and click on each of those shapes to deselect them and then press Delete on the keyboard to get rid of them and now it looks as if like I mentioned the L is connected to the letter O and it's just a smooth fluid path going through there so I want to duplicate the same thing over here on this end I want to get rid of I want to make it so that this portion of the letter O is going over the letter G over here so to do that I'm gonna start out by holding shift and alt and clicking through these shapes right here to select them go to path combine click on this bottom shape down here hit control D to duplicate it hold shift click on these shapes go to path cut path and then hold shift and click on each of them to deselect everything to deselect each shape and press Delete on the keyboard to get rid of them and now what I want to do is delete these shapes up here will delete the intersecting area of these shapes right here so again I'm gonna hold shift and alt click and drag through those shapes right there and go to path combine click on this top shape up here hit control D to duplicate that and hold shift click on these shapes and go to path cut path and then hold shift and click on each of those to deselect them and then just press Delete on the keyboard to get rid of what was selected there so I'm gonna go through and do this over here now with the letter G the letter G is more tricky because we want the the straight part of the G to overlap everything so I'm gonna delete everything that's in its path first what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start out with this left side over here I'm gonna hold shift and alt and click and drag through those shapes and go to path combined I'm going to take this far left shape over here hit control D to duplicate that hold shift click on those shapes and go to path cut path and then just hold shift shift click each of those shapes deselect them press Delete on the keyboard and I'm gonna do the same thing over here to the right side I'm gonna hold shift and alt select through those and go to path combined take this shape hit control D to duplicate that hold shift click on that shape path cut path and then shift-click all of these shapes to deselect them so we can delete what's left over so the final segment to cut out would be these lines over here so I'm just going to repeat the same steps that we previously did paths combined we're going to duplicate this shape we're gonna use that as the reference point to cut these shapes path cut paths and then just deselect them by shift-clicking them and press Delete on the keyboard now I'm going to hold controlling and super marital and roll down the mouse wheel to zoom out a little bit if you as you notice here if you click and drag over everything and bring the opacity up you'll see we've created our looping letters as if they're all connected together what I want to do now is I want to cut out little segments of them as you see in the thumbnail just to give it like a little bit of an extra effect so to do that I'm gonna create a reference shape that I'm gonna use for everything for all of the letters so I'm gonna grab the rectangles tool and I'm gonna click and drag to create a rectangle like that and I want to make that red and I want to get rid of that black outline by holding shift and clicking on the X and I just want to bring me opacity of that down in half like that let me grab the Select tool I want to duplicate that shape by right-clicking it and going to duplicate hold control bring it down to about there and then I'm just gonna take this top arrow and make that smaller like that we're going we're gonna end up with something like that right there it doesn't have to be exactly as you see it on my screen but pretty close should be good enough and for this part of the tutorial we can now turn off the the enable snapping we're gonna want that turned off for this part because that'll otherwise get in our way I'm going to move that up a little bit I'm gonna take these two shapes click and drag over both of them and go to path Union and I'm gonna hold ctrl and shift to scale them down a little bit I'm gonna duplicate this shape hitting ctrl D I'm gonna bring it over here and I'm gonna hold shift and click on this line so we have them both selected and go to path cut path and then click off of that to deselect everything and you can now take this part and delete it and take that part and delete it and you pretty much get the idea of how we're gonna break up all those lines I'm gonna pretty much repeat that process going through all of these letters so I don't quite like how this came out I think there's not enough space between these two and there's too much space between these two so I'm gonna hit ctrl Z a couple of times to undo that and I'm just gonna change this a little bit I'm gonna grab the Edit path by nodes tool and take these nodes and just bring them up a little bit and I'll take these nodes and bring them down a little bit like that and that looks pretty good right there maybe I'll make that a little smaller I'm gonna right-click that go to duplicate I'm going to bring this over here hold shift click on the the the line cut path and then you can just take out those other areas and just delete them and I'm going to do the same thing and I duplicate that I'm gonna bring this one over here but I'm gonna flip it vertically so it doesn't look too it kind of looks like randomized it'll look better that way do the same thing path cut path and then delete oops wrong one delete these little areas right there and I'll just do this again over here to this line you flip that around you can flip them vertically in horizontally by pressing V on the keyboard that will flip it vertically and then pressing H on the keyboard will flip it horizontally but you won't notice because this shape is symmetric are symmetrical horizontally I'll do the same thing over here path cut path get rid of this segment and then get rid of that segment do the same thing up here path cut path get rid of that get rid of that and then do one more over here duplicate that path cut path get rid of that line get rid of that line and if you want you could grab the edit path by nodes tool and then just bring this line down a little bit just make sure to hold ctrl on the keyboard so it locks into the vertical axis just to create a little bit of nuance between the top there so it isn't like straight across like that and what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna take this shape and I'm gonna start doing the same thing to this circle portion of the bottom half of the letter L so again I'm just going to duplicate it I'm gonna rotate it around a little bit like that and do the same thing cut path get rid of that segment and get rid of that segment do the same thing over here let me do placate that to rotate it you just click on it when you've used the select tool you're gonna get this scaling handles like that if you click on it again you get the rotation handles and you can just rotate it around I'm going to put that right about there path cut path and if you feel comfortable enough with the software what you can do is what you can do is you can start using the keyboard shortcut for cut path which is ctrl alt and the the right slash the forward slash so it's ctrl alt it's the same key with the question mark on it so that's what I'm gonna actually do here that's what I normally do I don't normally work from these menus I have the keyboard shortcuts memorize for everything you know I would recommend doing the same thing if you use the software regularly because it'll save you a bunch of time I'm gonna come over here I'm gonna start with this line over here the next line in you go put that right there like that and then cut path control fault and the question marquee and there you go and I'll go through the same thing do the same thing with each of these lines over here just making it look random and you should pretty much get the idea I'm not going to sit here and do the entire thing I'll do the entire thing but I'm going to speed it up real quick and once I'm done I'll catch up with you then you okay so as you can see I finished up going through the entire designing and clipping out you know random parts of the design to make it look more broken up that pretty much does it for that end of things now like the the hard work is pretty much done what we can do now is just click and drag over everything and bring the opacity all the way up and what you could do is you can group everything together with the group selected objects button and now you could turn off you could turn on when scaling objects scale the stroke width by same proportion now that everything is done you could turn that back on and now you can scale this up or scale it down however you'd like and the lines will remain the same thickness and if you want to give this thin color what you do is you hold shift and click on whatever color it is you'd like to use if you click on just the color itself it won't work you'll get something like this so make sure to hold shift and click on the color you want to use first or you can go to the stroke paint dialog over here and choose your color that way so that should pretty much do it for this tutorial that's how you can go about creating this line art style text using Inkscape so if you have any questions let me know and as always thanks for watching [Music]

Channel: Logos By Nick

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Keywords: inkscape, inkscape tutorial, inkscape line art, inkscape logo text, line art logo text, nick saporito, logos by nick, logosbynick

Id: EU4Xk5jaFfY

Length: 18min 11sec (1091 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 23 2018