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(In my case 2 millimeters for a final thickness of 1 mm.) Make any other adjustments here such as Dashes, etc.Ĭlick the shape you created and copy it ( Ctrl+C). Open the Fill and Stroke (Shift+Ctrl+F) dialog box, click the Stroke Style tab and adjust the Width to double the desired thickness. In my case, I'll be using an Oval with the help of the Circles tool (F5). The names are not important they're just reminders to help keep our focus.Ĭlick the 'Bottom' layer to make it our working layer.Ĭreate a shape large enough to contain the text necessary. (To open the layers control box, use Shift+Ctrl+L.)Ĭreate 4 specific layers for the talk bubble. If you're working with an image file, add it to the document and set it on its own layer. This turned out to be a cute piece of thanksgiving clip art that can be a part of some sort of decoration.Let's create some talk bubbles where the tail, the part that points to the speaker, is flexible and does not need to be redrawn. This tutorial is part of 5 Easy Holiday Drawing Tutorials Using Inkscape Don’t forget to position it behind the turkey beak and snood (I’m loving this word).Ĭontinue to add another shading wedge to the body as well (I also changed the color of the turkey’s left wing to match the shadow).Īll that’s left to do is add a background! This turkey looks good, huh? Just give it a black fill with an Opacity of about 18%. The shape you’re left with is a wedge that can fit right on our turkeys head. Select both of the circles and head up to Path > Difference. What we need is a circular wedge to use for shading, so grab one of your circles and enlarge it/position it like I have below. We need to do some shading to finish up this turkey! To start, simply draw a couple of circles (color doesn’t matter). We’ll be needing two feet of course, so duplicate and flip as usual. Now we can set the fill to some orange color to match the turkey, then set the Stroke to 6px. After this, set the Stroke to about 10px, then select Path > Stroke to Path. It doesn’t matter if they’re joined or anything, because we’re going to select these lines and head up to Path > Combine.

Once we’ve got the shape we want, apply the same brown color, duplicate, flip horizontally, and position the wings! Again, Align and Distribute will be your best friend for keeping everything centered.įor the feet, simply use the Pen tool and draw a few lines to make that signature “chicken foot” shape. Since we have the basis of a wing, let’s just add the thick stroke and fine tune the nodes. With the Nodes tool, select the top three nodes and Make symmetric. Next, grab the Pen tool and draw a three point zig-zag type thing. To start the wings, drag a couple Guides from the top ruler like I have below. Go ahead position these properly behind the turkey. If all was done correctly, you’ll end up with what I have below. Finally, duplicate another group of feathers and flip it horizontal. Select the bunch of feathers, Control+G to group, click twice to bring up rotation handles, hold Control while rotating to snap the angle, and only rotate it one notch counter-clockwise. When the settings are set, click Create to get the result I have below. Rotation Angle Per column to 10 degrees.With the feather group selected, head up to Edit > Clone > Create Tiled Clones. Go ahead and group these when you’re finished, but also move the point of rotation to the right side of the feather.

Now we need to use the Nodes tool again to add a couple nodes on one side and make them symmetric.įor the finishing touch, use the Pen tool to draw a simple line down the middle of the feather and give it an Opacity of about 8%. With it still selected, head up to Path > Object to Path.

To create the feather shape, start with a long oval. Place it behind the beak to finish it up.

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This was easy to free hand with the Pencil tool along with the smoothing setting to about 50. Now it’s time to draw the snood (yeah, that’s what it’s called). Now you can adjust the handles to smooth the beak out a bit. Grab the Nodes tool, select the top 2 nodes, click the Add nodes button, then click the Make nodes symmetric button. As you may know, there are many ways to draw triangles in Inkscape. I ended up dragging a Guide down from the top ruler and using the Pen tool to draw it manually. For the beak, all we need is a simple triangle.

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