Part way through and wanted to ask how do you'all get texture on things like leaf petals and this pear? I'm drawing the little brown specks, duplicating, blur, etc, but want it to look like the example pear. Ideas?
First time using the mesh gradient, haven't figured out some of the basics yet, only know how to click on the diamond for color. (hey, it's a start, lol).
Hah, I drew a pear in one of the first challenges on InkscapeForum. Those little dots on the pear added a lot of KBs to the file, but I don't remember exactly how I did it. Let's see if I can find the SVG file....attached. I can't think of the variety name at the moment, but it's a different variety from the one you showed - the kind that are yellow when ripe.
It looks like I just made them manually. But I guess I might try a custom pattern now.
I did try a filter - overlay>speckle seems to work best. It looks sort of like what you've done manually. Tthe problem is that with speckle I couldn't make the dots larger, can't move them around, and applying color is a bit odd. So far haven't found any filters that are quite what I want.
You are so right about the size thing. I am also working with mesh on some grapes (which are looking nice), but it's literally crashing inskcape over and over, ugh! If I hadn't of had a backup copy I'd be crying right now. Even the autosave did not save the design, all I had was a blank screen! Even in putting grapes on various layers isn't working, I can't even move the cluster around. yikes. I hope mesh gets more developed, it's a great tool, just not much info on it, the YouTube videos are pretty good. I can add rows and columns but once made I haven't found a way to remove any rows or columns without having to start over.
Well, here's 4 pears, experimented with various textures. There are so many varieties of pears that they do kinda match something. Not pea'r'fect by any means! I need more mesh help on tiny objects, like stems. I like the speckle effect the best, but want a vector overlay, but for small things speckle is very nice. Watched a Nick tut and came up with using a concrete raster, trace, then got a vector overlay, not perfect as the dots aren't really round enough, but from a distance they look fairly decent. Appreciate all ideasand/ or links to mesh gradient tuts on small things.
I may try that one day pjschleitwilerfcm. I've not used clone much, tried it a couple of times and didn't really care for it for some reason. Right now working on a rose using mesh gradient - only have enough patience to attempt one big thing at a time, ha ha. thank you for the suggestion.
Hey, I think we're actually on the same problem. I think that my little advantage is that I work on a banana drawing (so i have less stains to draw). However, i see that you have a better skill than me on drawing those. Good Job !
Work in Progress Isolated Pear
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Part way through and wanted to ask how do you'all get texture on things like leaf petals and this pear? I'm drawing the little brown specks, duplicating, blur, etc, but want it to look like the example pear. Ideas?
First time using the mesh gradient, haven't figured out some of the basics yet, only know how to click on the diamond for color. (hey, it's a start, lol).
Hah, I drew a pear in one of the first challenges on InkscapeForum. Those little dots on the pear added a lot of KBs to the file, but I don't remember exactly how I did it. Let's see if I can find the SVG file....attached. I can't think of the variety name at the moment, but it's a different variety from the one you showed - the kind that are yellow when ripe.
It looks like I just made them manually. But I guess I might try a custom pattern now.
Brynn, that looks great! Very realistic.
I did try a filter - overlay>speckle seems to work best. It looks sort of like what you've done manually. Tthe problem is that with speckle I couldn't make the dots larger, can't move them around, and applying color is a bit odd. So far haven't found any filters that are quite what I want.
You are so right about the size thing. I am also working with mesh on some grapes (which are looking nice), but it's literally crashing inskcape over and over, ugh! If I hadn't of had a backup copy I'd be crying right now. Even the autosave did not save the design, all I had was a blank screen! Even in putting grapes on various layers isn't working, I can't even move the cluster around. yikes. I hope mesh gets more developed, it's a great tool, just not much info on it, the YouTube videos are pretty good. I can add rows and columns but once made I haven't found a way to remove any rows or columns without having to start over.
Well, here's 4 pears, experimented with various textures. There are so many varieties of pears that they do kinda match something. Not pea'r'fect by any means! I need more mesh help on tiny objects, like stems. I like the speckle effect the best, but want a vector overlay, but for small things speckle is very nice. Watched a Nick tut and came up with using a concrete raster, trace, then got a vector overlay, not perfect as the dots aren't really round enough, but from a distance they look fairly decent. Appreciate all ideasand/ or links to mesh gradient tuts on small things.
How about making a speckle and cloning a lot of copies ditributed randomly?
I saw a tut about making grass that way and it might work for you. You can unlink the clones to change sizes, colors and distribution.
I may try that one day pjschleitwilerfcm. I've not used clone much, tried it a couple of times and didn't really care for it for some reason. Right now working on a rose using mesh gradient - only have enough patience to attempt one big thing at a time, ha ha. thank you for the suggestion.
Woah, I though those were photos! Very realistic, Super-impressive. I would even go so far as to say, "Pear-fect!"
Hey, I think we're actually on the same problem. I think that my little advantage is that I work on a banana drawing (so i have less stains to draw). However, i see that you have a better skill than me on drawing those. Good Job !