Vector Tutorials by Kendra Schaefer

In this lesson, you'll learn how to use Inkscape to produce the same as Adobe Illustrator's Extrude & Bevel + Break Apart functions to create professional 3d text and lettering.

This tutorial is for intermediate-advanced Illustrator users. Less of a tutorial and more of a mini-reference guide, I'm throwing out some of the starting shapes you can use to create various objects with Illustrator's 3D revolve function.

Need some professional quality people icons for your site or application? Don't wanna buy Illustrator? Look no further. Using Inkscape, it's not hard to create matching mini man and woman icons for text applications or site development.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use the Inkscape interpolate tool to make a vector Buddhist lotus flower.

Caterpillars are way adorable, and 3D cartoon caterpillars are twice as way adorable. Happily, they're fairly easy to make in Inkscape.

It's my personal opinion that silver is one of the hardest materials to faithfully render in any vector program. In this tutorial, I'll show you a neat - and fairly easy - technique for creating a basic embossed silver jewelry-style effect.

In three parts, we'll discuss how to make the body of the globe body of the icon / logo, the surrounding leaf and leaf stem, the water droplets, lighting effects, shadows and extras.

This tutorial is meant to give absolute beginners a detailed understanding of using and applying colors and gradients in Inkscape, and the different options available to you when working with object color.

You'll get a remarkably different effect, with the Matte button looking soft and the Gloss button looking cold and glassy, these are incredibly easy to make, and there are actually only two design differences between these styles.

Creating vector grunge text in Inkscape is super simple. In this tutorial, we'll start with the basic Arial Black font, and turn it into a gritty vector in seconds.