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I am working on improvement of the Joomla! template we use on verysimpledesigns.com. And as that is mostly an after hours job, it progresses slowly. I have to divide my attention to creating new content, finishing tutorials and re-design. All fun to do, but it is sometimes more fun to just doodle a bit. And [...]

I started to write a tutorial about seamless pattern creation in Inkscape a long time ago. I really struggled with it, as I was afraid it would not show enough original content, and also because the use of seamless patterns within Inkscape comes with quite some limitations.
Through verysimpledesigns.com I received a request for a tutorial [...]

Our cute cat
Most weeks life goes by in a nice reasonably predictable way and the days sorta smoothly roll over from one into another. Other weeks things happen like wild water rafting. This was such a week. Worst thing that happened was that our cute cat got hit by a car and passed away. Some [...]

A while back I created a simple video tutorial on how to create Spiro Swirls in Inkscape. It is aimed at beginning Inkscape artists and even without any prior Inkscape knowledge it should be easy to follow.
Spiro curves (Cornu spirals) were introduced to the design world by Raph Levien, and the feature is included in [...]

It has been a busy weekend… beach, good food, lazing about and so on. Then Monday knocked on the door and I decided to do some more work in Inkscape.
I wanted to make an easy fringed patch and without too much trouble I got the desired result. And then I figured it would make a [...]