Move it in position, next to the rocket body.Īgain, in rotate/skew mode, rotate it a bit by dragging one of the arrows at the corners, until we like the alignment. Select the rectangle and click on it once, this will put in in rotate/skew mode so we need to skew it a bit my dragging on the arrow on one of its edges. To finish the bullet shape of the rocket body we need to make the bottom edge rounded: select the two bottom corners, add a new node in the middle, select it, move a bit up and made it symmetric, now we have a bullet, an aerodynamic shape.Ī rocket needs some "wings", so we will create another rectangle, this time much smaller. Select back the two nodes that were the top corners of the rectangle and make them symmetric, for a shape starting to look like a bullet/rocket. Select the new node (only it) and move it up (keep the Ctrl key pressed to limit the movement to vertical only).
With the same two top nodes selected, add a new node in the middle of their segment. The following operation can be done (as far as I know) only from keyboard: press Ctrl + Alt + > to enlarge the segment, the result should be a trapezium with the big side up. Now go in node editor and select the two top nodes. Then select it and convert to path, we will do node editing. So start Inkscape and draw a rectangle, which must be more tall than wide (we are drawing a rocket!) and have straight, not rounded corners.
The target here is to produce something like this, not extremely realistic but easily recognizable as a rocket and the most important, fun (hopefully) and easy to create by someone who is using Inkscape for the first time. But here is a perfect opportunity, Fedora 13 entered Alpha and had a code name (Goddard) and so far a visual theme based on rocketry, so it seems a tutorial titled "Drawing a rocket with Inkscape is not rocket science" would be just fit. Many places I go I meet people telling how much they liked graphic tutorials and how much they learned about using GIMP and Inkscape following them, and this makes me feel bad, as I am quite busy lately with a lot of things (video and photography ate a lot of my time) and rarely manage to write something new.
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