Inkscape Tutorial - Mini Video - Designing Flowers using Clones

This is a mini video tutorial from 2Dgameartguru.com on the use of clones in Inkscape to quickly and easily create flower designs.
By using clones you can adjust the petals across all instances making it a very fast and editable way to design flowers.
This video is based on an earlier step-by-step tutorial:
2dgameartguru.com/creating-a-...
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[@jdrsant0s]

This "clone" thing is very good!
It seems more and more to me that imagination is the limit in Inkscape.
Thank you.

[@2dgameartguru]

100% - you can do weird and wonderful things with Inkscape. Whatever excuses people make about 'missing tools' is really just a lack of thinking outside the box and trying a different approach to the Illustrator youtube video they just watched.

[@ruud9767]

This looks so nice and easy! Thank you very much.

[@2dgameartguru]

You're welcome 😊...and it is that easy!

[@dougveganparadisebuilder5808]

What a cool lesson! Top notch.

[@2dgameartguru]

Thanks! I am glad you liked it! ;)

[@pasticciottiontheroad]

Great Tutorial, I love this flowers, thank you so much.

[@2dgameartguru]

You’re welcome 😊I am the same. Flowers are fun topic and give you endless freedom to create something beautiful.

[@pasticciottiontheroad]

@@2dgameartguru yes this is so true

[@CTRL_SMarcos]

Great, thanks for the video.

[@2dgameartguru]

You are welcome! I am glad you liked it!

[@libbyseawright5996]

When you rotated the original clone, how did you get the spacing even between the petals? I assume you were using some key stroke I couldn't see. 🙂

[@2dgameartguru]

Sorry... I forgot to mention it as I do it instinctively - hold shift while rotating and it will move in 15° increments.

[@libbyseawright5996]

@@2dgameartguru Thank you!

[@heroofhyrule2642]

How do you move the flowers without messing up the gradient?

[@2dgameartguru]

In the top menu on the right side are 4 buttons controlling scaling of strokes, scaling of corners, movement of gradients, and movement of patterns. Make sure the 2nd from the right [Move gradients with object] is turn on.

[@heroofhyrule2642]

Thank you.

[@2dgameartguru]

@@heroofhyrule2642 You are welcome!

[@cagneyreese7962]

Great video. Can u do a rose?

[@2dgameartguru]

Yes. I can but I would probably choose a different approach as the petals of the rose are arranged differently. Let me have a think about it. :)

[@jarekgajewski7054]

😍🤩🌺🌺❤

[@2dgameartguru]

🙏

[@doctormo]

You could do with a clone+transform instead of duplicate+transform. Nice video.

[@2dgameartguru]

Thanks!
I thought that's what I did... and then I duplicate the clones. :)

[@doctormo]

@@2dgameartguru Oh it looked like you were rotating each one manually. There's a new Duplicate and Transform action which does both in one step.