I’ve been using Inkscape for years and I just found this fun little gem - it truly does draw a great tree! Go ahead and give this a try, because the possibilities of a randomly generated tree are endless. This is such a unique feature in Inkscape, I couldn’t resist sharing this. Just to add some finishing touches, I added some ground and sky. I used Align and Distribute to center it vertically, and to align to the top of the original tree trunk. You’ll end up with a small, perfectly cut shadow to place over your trunk. ![]() Now, make sure the tree trunk it on top of the shadow, select them both, and head up to Object > Clip > Set. Leave the tree trunk in position as we’ll be clipping it for a proper shadow. To do this, I copied the tree top and tree trunk and gave the tree top a black fill with a 50% opacity. Step 3: Change the color, size and style of your arrow. Step 2: Apply a marker to the end of the path to be used as the arrow head. You’ll see below that it adds some depth.įor even more depth, I wanted to add a shadow to the tree trunk. Step 1: Use the Bezier Pen to draw a path that you’d like your arrow to follow. Then, I copied the entire tree top and flipped it horizontally, shrunk it, rotated a bit, and gave it a slightly darker green color. Optionally, you can select both leaf objects and do a Path > Union to merge them. After all, your tree will look entirely different from mine. Then you’ll need to tinker with positioning a bit to get it to look just right. To fix this, let’s just copy and paste the leaf bunch and flip it vertically. Unfortunately, that leaves our leaves looking particularly bad on the bottom. Go ahead and give that trunk a brown color. You should end up with something that looks like the tree below. Select both the tree and the shape you just drew and use Path > Division. Now we need to chop some wood! Just grab the Pen tool and draw a shape that we’ll use to roughly separate the leaves from the trunk. ![]() This will convert this into a much more simple shape. ![]() Make sure you select your tree and head up to Path > Stroke to Path. Since there’s so much detail here, it’s probably running pretty slow.
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