Inkscape Tutorial: How to Make Watercolor Star Chart | Night Sky Star Map (Stellarium Data)
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Inkscape step-by-step beginner, intermediate-advanced tutorial on how to create a custom star chart Night Sky wall art DIY project with watercolor effect, featuring the constellation, Orion. Follow along in this Inkscape screen capture showing how to:
1. Use Stellarium to find your star data based on chosen time and place.
2. Watercolor effect settings to create your customized night sky.
3. Modify gradient tool for desired color range.
4 Felt Texture effect setting to create colorful cosmos.
5. Make a vector file from the Stellarium data inside of Inkscape.
6. Clip and Crop your stars to fit the night sky background.
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very valuable as your all other tutorials , thanks 👍
Thank you very much!!
Loved ur channel.....+
Can make a tutorial on vector portrait....cuz a lot of people only draw the stuff....nobody teaches ....so...pls...make one...,💜💜
Thank you!! I'll see what I can put together for vector portait.
Resizing locks the pattern! Thank you! That was driving me nuts. You've just made those filters way more usable. Preesh
Thanks! I love Inkscape- quirks and all, but that was driving me nuts too.
Just learning inkscape and doing different projects like this really help getting the more than just the basics down. Thank you! 😊
That is so good to hear. Thank you!!
I’ve started watching you as my bed time video to pick up tricks lol
Thanks!! I'll try to keep packing in new tricks in the tutorials!
another great tutorial. Rick you explain things very clearly. Space, sky, desert, city, you did all. How about doing a Poster on green fields or forest ?🙏🏼
Thanks so much! I love the idea of green fields or forest. I'll work something up. Thanks!
fast forward to....20220719.
Just found this channel and I concur, Rick is probably one of the most congenial, clear thinking, helpful teachers on You tube.
Thanks, thanks so much. This makes my day.
Please can you do some more tutorials on watercolour art using photos? Would love to see and try that!
this is sick!
Thanks!!
wow, this is exactly what I've been looking for... Thank You
Thank you!!
EXCELLENT tutorial! Very clear... and the end result... OMG!!! 👏👏👏
Thank you!!! Thanks so much!
Really nice man
Thanks!!
Great tutorial Rick, I tried this and it came out beautiful, thanks once again.
Thank you! Nice work!
I was just looking for the next inkscape project to do and looks like I'm right on time for this one :D thanks man!
Thanks! Anytime!
Excellent artwork! Thank you for your guide.
Thanks so much!!
Very interesting!
Thanks!!
Amazing work my friend. 😊
Thanks!!
Nice, thanks!
Thank you!
wow love it. Thank you so much!!
Thank you!!
It's very cool!
Thank you!!
You Deserve More Views And Awesome Work Btw :D
Thank you!! Hope people find me.
Thanks for the video
What is your document size?
Can you do a illustration tutorial with very organic feel to it? Like when you are using Inkscapes preset polygon / shape tool or the line tool, all the edges are very smooth and sharp curves. Would love to know how to have slight uneven edges without the need to have a pen stylus or a drawing pad. Now I'm using node tool to manually change hundreds if not thousands of the shapes to make it looks more natural.
Thank you for posting this video, very helpful!
I'm planning on drawing a galaxy with a hex grid overlay in Inkscape for my DIY board game.
Thinking I could copy & paste to link together the nebula and star patterns into spiral arms.
Thanks, and that sounds awesome! Love the hex grid idea for an overlay.
@@IronEchoDesign Fiddling around a little more . . . drawing a fat black spiral dashed line, like .1 inch width, then applying the felt texture creates dust clouds along each spiral arm of the galaxy. Then Edit paths by nodes to slide the clouds around to add clumpiness. Really cool
That's a cool method. I've got to try it!
This is amazing. What is your starting size for this project?
Thanks so much! I belive this one was the A4 template- 210x297 mm. Would definitely need to be scaled up before exporting for print. Thanks again!
@@IronEchoDesign is there a way to create a custom template or size so i start with the right settings or do I scale during the export process?
There is a way to create custom template. Like you mention, once you have the scale you know will work when finished, you can go to File- Document Properties. Then type in the width and height you want. Back to File- Save Template. Name it and click Save. It will be found under File- New From Template next time you're in Inkscape!
hey Rick great tutorial as always!! When I try to export the design (png), the computer hangs for 5 minutes and then only exports one third of the image. Have you experienced anything like this before? I am running the latest version of Inkscape
update - the issue was, I was cancelling because the export was taking too long. I just did it again and let it run for a while but it took solid 8-10 minutes to export 8x10 inches png at 300dpi and the image size is 4mb. That's not normal for sure, right?
Thank you so much! I've had slow exports before too. The more nodes, the slower it takes. Something that ends up 4MB shouldn't take that long. I've found if you save your work, close inkscape, and then reopen your project it seems to help export speed. Perhaps that will help?
Can you help me with how to take a screenshot from stellarium? While importing, a blank image is coming without the stars.
Happy to help. Are you on Windows 10? You can use the screen capture tool, Snip & Sketch. On a Mac you can do Shift+Command+4+space bar. Let me know if these help.
can u show plz how to convert a watercolor drawing into a inkdcape watercolor drawing!?
The closest thing I can think of that may be able to do that is to use Trace Bitmap. You can set the scans to a high number like 24 and see how it comes out. I have a tutorial on Trace Bitmap on this channel that might help. Let me know if it works!
Do you know how to create northern lights/green light kinda effect on Inkscaepe?
Good question. A quick way to make the northern lights would be to draw a bezier curve to your liking. Duplicate it, select both and go to Extensions- Generate From Path- Interpolate. (watch my repeating pattern wavy lines tutorial for help with this part). Then add blur and linear gradient going to transparent. Make duplicates with color and size variations and place as where you think looks best. Hope this helps!
@@IronEchoDesign Thank you very much :)
Do you have a course that is built around Inkscape.
I have this Inkscape 45 min course from last year on the channel. I'm looking for a sponsor so I can make a new version for 1.2. Hope this helps! czcams.com/video/girjT1RlShM/video.html.
@@IronEchoDesign will be another place to watch your video. Thanks for you work and help. Have a Grand Day.
Thanks, you too!
Followed exactly but my watercolors always end up just being a circular shape with kind of patchy looking watercolor. It’s not smooth like yours. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong or how to get mine smooth like yours.
Let's see if we can fix this. Here's a few tips: 1. Start very small. Zoom in and make a small circle in a dark color. Dark blue is my go-to. 2. Apply the the Watercolor effect and with your circle object selected, adjust the Blur slider on the fill and stroke menu. Move it all the way to each side to see the full range of the watercolor effect based on your current settings. If it is still patchy, go to Filter Editor and you can fine tune the effect to make it smooth. I'm typing this from my phone, but I think my Watercolor skyline video shows the exact Filter Editor settings I use. Or it could be the Watercolor Map video...or both if I was thorough. Hope this helps!
The same was happening for me, but I had my language set to german and watercolor would translate to wasserfarben, so I chose this effect - and the results ended up being absolute garbage.
I then tried the other effects and found out, that I had to choose Aquarell which is the actual watercolor filter, when the language is set to german. So probably just change the language to english, if yours is set to something else.
@@steraturning no mine is to English. I found that my issue was actually how big I was making the shape before putting the watercolor filter on it. The smaller I make a shape, the better the watercolor comes out. If I leave it big then it just looks like I said, patchy watercolor that looks kind of like clouds. But thank you for replying, hopefully that helps someone if that’s their problem!
Thank you for sharing this!
i wish the app worked on a mac ugh...
I thought they have a Mac version too. I'm using Windows so not sure.
@@IronEchoDesign they do but it freezes. Hubby is building me a Linux machine 🙂