Entangled is the word of the week on Illustration Friday, intended to get the creative juices of every creative type across the world flowing, and an image immediately jumped from my subconscious into my head. I straight away saw an illustration of two elephants with their trunks entangled.
Deciding to go with this idea and experiment some more with Inkscape, which I just downloaded for free. I quickly used the pencil tool to drag out some vector shapes and gave them fills and gradients, but I wanted to add more texture to the image. If I don’t do this to an illustration it always looks a bit too flat to me.
So it was time to Google about and find out how to do this in Inkscape. This blog, Textured Drawings in Inkscape: Finding Character | Carl Jagt – Geek Artist, gave me some inspiration and showed what could be done, but I really needed a step by step.
And I found one here, detailed Inkscape texture max explanation, I’ll be seeing if I can follow this complex looking procedure, and post some nice looking Elephants soon, after all I only have until next Friday.
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