Inkscape Book Review

Something a little different this week.  "learning how to fish" is my motto so I took a break and went back to learning, or relearning myself.  I've been doing Inkscape for several years now and do get done what I want.  I'm self taught, with the help of lots of videos and tutorials by others who came before me.  I'd never seen a "book" that did anything for me until I got ahold of Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook.


Sample Chapter  
I got the sample chapter and started in.  It didn't take long for me to be excited about  the style and "recipe" approach used in the book.  As I worked through the chapter doing the recipes I discovered several new, for me, ways of doing what I had been doing.  I HAD TO HAVE THE WHOLE BOOK!

With the complete book before me I started at the beginning, and am continuing to work it recipe by recipe.  You really want to approach it this way as there are so many features, shortcuts, tricks and different ways of doing things that I didn't know or hadn't used.

Bear in mind that this book is not written for CUTTERS and as time goes by I'll do some take off's from the recipes to adapt them for cutting files.  There is so much to learn and you'll be creating some beautiful intricate images that PRINT beautifully.  These were done using Interpolating sub-paths from Chapter 5.

Do give it a try... Take your time, do a recipe then go off and play with what you learned, trying different ways of creating with what you learned...you'll love it.

Learning How to Fish one recipe at a time.

More Resources

Laura (lkc) has done some nice things with other recipes from the book.  Take a look HERE