Inkscape Tutorial: Vector Liquid Text

this is Nikolas logos Viacom and in today's tutorial I'll be using Inkscape to demonstrate how you can create text well that looks like it's made of like a glass with liquid filled inside of it and at any point in this tutorial you could look down at the bottom left hand side of my screen to see which mouse clicks and keystrokes I'm using so will minimize this and get started hearing scape the first thing we want to do is actually the first thing you want to do is make sure you have the font installed because the font we'll be using for this tutorial it's called Bunga sigh and I will have a link to that where you can download it for free in the description so before you open up Inkscape go ahead and download and install this font and then you should be good to go so the first thing we do in Inkscape is go to view make sure that sets a custom and then we'll zoom in at 1 to 1 and then I'm going to open up the align and distribute menu with this button right here we're going to want less selected shows from that drop-down and then we'll open up the Edit objects colors gradients and Stroke menu with that button there so the first thing we're going to create is the text so we'll come over to the text tool which is right here or you just press f8 on the keyboard f8 will get you the text tool click on the canvas to get the cursor I'm just going to type in liquid and all small caps like that lowercase and it'll come up here to the text editor and I'm going to find that font called Bunga scion should type in bu ng and there it is Bunga sigh I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right but that's that's it right there go ahead and click apply close out of that and we'll come back to the Select tool and I'm going to hold ctrl and shift and scale this up so it's bigger about that big and we want to do now is convert this from a text object to a path so we'll get a path object to path and then we'll click the ungroup button so we have individual letters and I take the opacity of this and drop this down about in half and click off of that to deselect everything so what I want to do now is get these letters a little closer together so I'm going to click on the letter D and hold ctrl on the keyboard and click and drag it to the left maybe about that far in so letter I and I'll hold shift and click on the letter I then hold ctrl and move both of those over to the left a little more and then hold shift and click on the letter U and then hold ctrl and move that to the left a little more about that much that's pretty good then I'll hold shift and click on the letter Q and hold ctrl and move this to the left about that much that's pretty good and then I'll hold shift and click on the letter I then hold ctrl and just move this over to the left as well and there we have nicely spaced out letters and it should look pretty decent by now so what we'll do once that's done is we'll click and drag over the entire thing to select it all and go to path Union I want to bring the opacity of that back up to 100% and I'm just going to make this a different color for now it's going to make this green and then I'm going to right click that and go to duplicate and I'm going to turn that blue and I'm going to lower that one step lower selection one step so it goes beneath the green object and then I'm going to hold shift and click on the color blue to give it a blue outline and you're not going to be able to see much of it at first because it's going to be very faint to one point a one pixel line so we'll come over to the stroke style tab over here we'll change the width of this to maybe a 10 you feel that looks that's pretty good let me make this around to join and a rounded cap and maybe make this a little thicker maybe I'll try 12 okay that's pretty good alright so 12 I'll leave it at 12 that works and what I want to do now is I want to raise this to the top raise that back up to the top then I want to click and drag this off to the side over here and bring your path city of this down about in half and then what I'll do is I'll go to path stroke the path and then test where is it break apart path break apart we're going to have all these individual little pieces so let's click off of that to deselect everything what we're mainly paying attention to here is the spaces between the letters and middle of like a letter Q and the letter D so we're going to delete everything else that isn't those so we'll take this letter L and just press Delete on the keyboard to get rid of that we'll get rid of this get rid of the letter I that little sliver right there going between the L in the eye we're going to leave that this right here I'm just going to delete that because that's really small and it's insignificant take this letter Q get rid of that we're going to leave that space in there get rid of this get rid of this and to do this I'm just clicking and dragging on it and pressing delete on the keyboard get rid of that get rid of that and I guess we'll get rid of that too we don't need that and what I'll do now is I'll click on this little sliver and hold shift and click on the the blue object behind it and go to path difference and then I'll hold shift and click on the little space between the Q there and go to path difference and then hold shift and click on the space with them D there and go to path difference and then we could hold shift and click on the green word and Center it back up on the vertical and horizontal axis click off it to deselect everything we're going to take the blue object up top lower at one step so it goes beneath the green bring the opacity back up to 100% and we can click off that deselect everything so what we need to create now is the liquid is the actual liquid within the word liquid here that you see like the blue I mean the other red liquid in there to do that I'm going to grab the Bezier a pen which is right here or just press B on the keyboard we'll just press B on the keyboard I'm going to start it outside of the object to the left over here and click and hold ctrl and move this line straight across horizontally until it's outside of the text over here and click and then hit enter on the keyboard we should have this little line here and I'm going to zoom in on this little bit so I can see it better you can just press + on the keyboard a couple of times that's pretty good now when it go to the edit pads by nodes tool which is up here and I'm going to grab this line and just dip that pull that up a little bit and I'll click on this node over here to get this handle and I'll take this handle and just pull that down you want to make this line a nice little wave a nice little a nice fluid curving wave you make that side a little more steep and take this side pull that up a little more and I'd say that's pretty good right there and once you've got it looking somewhat like that we'll go back to the Select tool and we'll convert that to a pack by going to pack stroke the path and then hold shift and click on the green word liquid and go to path difference and then path break apart and then we can click off of that to deselect everything so what we want to do now is take all of the objects above this curved line and delete them so we'll take this one press delete that one delete delete delete just clicking and pressing delete on the keyboard delete delete delete and we want to take all these objects and unify them together so I want to click on that then hold shift and click on this one over here it looks like it's two separate pieces once you have them both selected you could unify them together by going to path Union and I want to make these like a light shade of red maybe over here that's re 9 AF AF that's a good start and then we'll take the B out of the blue word liquid and from the color picker I'm going to make that a really light shade of blue maybe something down here the AFD de 9 I'll use that and that's just as a start so we can we can adjust this a little later on what we're about to do so the next thing I'm going to do real quick I'm going to put some air bubbles in there to do that we click off that deselect I'll grab the circles and ellipses tool and hold ctrl and shift and click and drag to create a perfectly round circle we're going to get rid of that blue outline by holding shift and clicking on the X over here to the left and I'm going to make that white and bring the opacity of that down about in half and come back to the Select tool and just put this over the object here I'll just hold ctrl and shift and scale that down you got that much I'll duplicate that by right-clicking it and going to duplicate put that over here and just make that one a little smaller just holding ctrl shift is scale it down and I'll duplicate that again put that over there if you make that one tiny bit bigger like that and then click and drag over all three of those and group them together you have little bubbles there they go make that a little smaller put that there and I'll duplicate that by just hitting ctrl D bring that over here click on it again to get the rotation handles and I'll just rotate it around a little bit so it looks more random ctrl D to duplicate that put that one over here if you rotate that around scale that down ctrl D to duplicate that put that put this over here maybe I'll flip this vertically I'll hold ctrl and scale this up a little bit I'll take this one hit ctrl D and I'll put this one down here and I'll hit ctrl D to duplicate that again put this over here flip that horizontally maybe hit ctrl D to duplicate that and put this over here click on it to get the rotation handles when you rotate that around a little bit and ctrl D to duplicate I'll put this one over here ctrl D one more time and I'll put this one over here and just rotate that around maybe make that one a little bit bigger even and then we can just hold shift and click on on all of those little series of bubbles and just group them all together with the group button up here group selected objects so that's now one object we can press one the keyboard to zoom back out to 100% we can click off of that to deselect everything and now is where the magic is going to begin we're going to make this look like it's actual glass we're going to make this look like it's liquid within the glass do that we're going to use the filter effects which is something it's up here filters it's something you don't see me use in my tutorials very often very rarely I use these but after things like this it's pretty good actually comes in pretty handy so for this one here I'm going to click on the blue liquid I'm going to right click that go to duplicate I'm going to make this blue and then I'm going to go to filters non realistic 3d shaders and click on frosted glass and I don't know I need some Inkscape version 48 if you're using version 91 or even 92 I don't know if it's going to be in this order but you should have frosted glass somewhere I don't know if it'll be labeled non realistic 3d shaders or 3d shaders or so if it's not listed like it is here on my screen just look around for it it should be there somewhere so we'll click on frosted glass and we send that to the bottom and raise that up one step and go to the fill tab and make that let me just under the HSL tab I'll just take the H and slide that to the left a little bit just to bring that down and that looks pretty good I'm actually going to hold alt and click on that again to grab the light blue text beneath that and I'm just going to take the L row over here and slide that to the right to make that a little lighter so it looks more like glass and that looks pretty good I'm going to leave that just how it is and now we can click on the red one the red actual liquid right click that and go to duplicate and I'm going to make this a solid color of red a solid shade of red like that just as a starting point and then go to filters non-realistic shaders frosted glass and yeah I'd say that that looks pretty good maybe I'll yeah and i'll leave that right there just like that nice that's pretty much it that's how you can create this liquid glass type of text using Inkscape and that's one one of the ways that you can use the filters up here with Inkscape really interesting what you do with these if you just sit around one day and just try them all out and see what they all do you can find some pretty useful stuff so that's how you can do that with the escape if you have any questions let me know and as always thank you for watching [Music] [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 13min 26sec (806 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 13 2017