How do you set up a stage, some pedestals, and 100 seats in a room? Well, one way is with Inkscape — you get the dimensions of the room, the dimensions of all the seats, tables, and pedestals, and you start putting them all in your drawing. I had a recent need to do this for our upcoming event, and so I thought I’d share yet one more way that Inkscape does a great job of illustrating concepts.
Every shape started out with the rectangle tool, and the tables and stage were simply elongated. The stage also was converted to a path so I could apply a curve to the front. The dimensions are all wrong for my actual application, but the idea is quite the same. 😉
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2 replies on “80 of 365 is a floor layout done in #Inkscape”
How do you come up with ideas of what to draw? I’m learning the skills of actually doing the drawings, but I feel like I’m lacking in creativity.
Daniel, that’s another great question. One of the ways I’ve done it is to create a page in Facebook called 365 Sketches where I ask people who join to send me pictures, ideas, and anything else they’d like. Please join up! I refer to those as 365 requests, and the olympic images you saw and commented on are examples — a friend, Angel, suggested that I sketch my favorite Winter Olympic sports. This particular image here, the floor layout is an actual task that I’ve been charged with, and one which Inkscape does a great job on. Cheers!