Inkscape ride again, too!

So I am a supporter of software that (barring freeware) you buy once, that keeps working once you've bought it, that doesn't require constant payment or changes or harvesting metrics for advertisers. Needless to say, I loved Affinity Designer. It worked really well for vectors, and I used it both exclusively for pin design and also for a fair amount of digital art elements in the past five years.

Now that it is effectively gone, and Canva is using its remains for its own purposes, my running copy of Designer has a limited lifespan. As such: the freeware, Inkscape!

I've had Inkscape before. At the time, I was only somewhat confident in the results. However, it's been five years, and while I did make vectors for pins back then, both I and Inkscape have grown in the interim. I'm missing some tools and capabilities (translating a node along and past the line it was defining was very useful, etc), but this is. Good! This is great! I've designed my whole new batch of pins in Inkscape and--this is even better--I think that the Bspline tool works particularly well for inking.

As in: I can collaborate with Lorelai (the composer for Diadem Station's score) and do much better art of people. My own skills on that score are not ideal (you see my work, it is usually not portraiture!) so this is exciting.

Donate to your indie software devs, and look forward to my new pins and pendants!!

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