Start drawing freely along the shapes on your photo.
I used here Red because is clearer in the tutorial what I do. (Alternatively, we can work with the photo at its default size and resize the vector when ready - I prefer to work as the final size because I find this way the preview quicker). By resizing we will lose a lot of small details, but we don't really need them. Import your photo inside the document (drag and drop is just fine) and resize it (with Ctrl pressed to preserve the aspect ratio). Set the canvas size as you desire, I used here 128x128, as this is an usual size for thumbnails. So we will start with a photo and will end with a drawing, like this: You may want to use a tablet, but the mouse is enough - the images in this tutorial are made exclusively with the mouse, I chosed to ignore my tablet today as I want to show what is possible using the simplest tools. Traditionally them are made in GIMP ( see my tutorial about drawing them with GIMP), but today we'll try something a little unusual: draw them in vector graphics using Inkscape.Īs a bonus, we will learn to draw those heads even if we don't know how to draw, by using a photo as reference, anyone can do this, you don't have to be an Inkscape wizard. This makes it a little easier than working off memory or your own experiences.A hackergotchi is a picture of a writer used as an avatar to identify the author of a given RSS feed in blog aggregators. A lot of the reference will show you a simplyfied setup. Poses, animations or colours are covered in heaps of tutorials. It’s always helpful to check out references. I test a character’s setup with a simple idle animation. Think simple and create something you can use in your game.
There is nothing wrong with the ‘mad-kung-fu-360-tiger-meets-dragon-in-mid-air-move’ but it might be a little frustrating to start with. If you start out animating it’s helpful to go with some more basic animations first. Idealy, keeping layers and pages separated.
The program even alows you export all the pages in one layered bitmap file. Flick through them to check your progress with easy. Instead of layering animations you just place them on separate pages. As result, I appreciate the multiple page setup of CorelDraw documents.
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