Do not drag your mouse on the page, as it will create a curved line. To draw straight lines, use click-move-click sequences. First, I drew a quadrilateral shape, roughly resembling Dilbert’s head with the Pencil tool. Figure 3: Dilbert caricatures are a combination of simple lines Figure 4: The Nodes tool lets you tweak shapesįigure 3 shows the various stages of my rendering of Dilbert. What this means is that you can start drawing cartoons and caricatures with just your mouse! Yes, Inkscape lets you do that. If you were to follow Scott Adam’s (Dilbert’s creator) production technique, then your Inkscape work would be much easier. The caricatures are a combination of simple lines twisted here and there, minimal shading and that is about it. If you observe carefully, Dilbert cartoons are extremely simple. Later, when reading a book on Dilbert cartoons, I realised that it need not be so difficult. (I believe this image depicts a more anatomically accurate shark than Sharko!)īut the task was still pretty laborious. I now have a small ‘clip art’ library with images like what’s shown in Figure 2. Lately, I have been watching some cartoons and this made me get back to working on Inkscape. Figure 1: A custom desktop icon created using Inkscape Figure 2: An anatomically accurate shark caricature created using Inkscape
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