That’s why I chose to put each element on a new layer and to draw it as an enclosed path that can have both a fill and a stroke. Your approach to reproducing Celtic lettering using Inkscape mirrors my own in that I too did not want to simply use Inkscape to produce something that looks hand drawn but instead approach the topic as if I was producing the design from scratch in Inkscape using all the tools available. If you want to share your first result, it would give us an idea what it is you are trying to draw. This creates extra beauty which is difficut to recreate by only drawing in Inkscape. The lines are sometimes a bit thicker, sometimes a bit thinner. Why would I do it this way? I think hand drawn images are more lively than perfect geometric vector shapes. Bigger spaces of colour you fill with the bucket fill tool. You can then draw the rest of the lines in different colours with the pen tool. Use the bitmap trace to make it into vectors. I would then make a scan/ picture of that drawing and import it into Inkscape. I would be tempted to trace it from a picture by hand: the black lines on white paper. If it is a matter of reproducing an existing alfabet. Actually, I think a lot of it would still have to be done by hand in Inkscape, like Brynn explains. ![]() They also made all the inks and parchment themselves. How the monks were able to make all the designs, I do not know. I have tried some of the style and I have to say, it is difficult.
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