@daring-celt 1 October 2021 more from that month

Digital art_2021. Burning Sunset (vector repeat) Hi friends! I liked **Inkscape** program so much that I decided to continue working in it. Yes, while I was drawing a pumpkin and watching the lessons of other artists, I had a few ideas that I could draw using **Inkscape**. https://read.cash/@daring-celt/autumn-sketches-5-pumpkin-part-1-a6969cdd To begin with, I decided to repeat my own drawing "Burning Sunset in South Africa" - it seemed to me that it would look good in a vector version. https://hive.blog/art/@daring-celt/digital-art2019-burning-sunset

So, I open the picture in Inkscape by going to **"File - Import"**

Resizing to borders of work file

Then I choose **Draw Bezier curves and Straight Line** tool and draw a restangle to borders of picture and fill it with colors i pick with **Eyedropper** on top of picture.

To make a gradient fill I chosse an linear gradient icon on **Fill and Stroke** palette.

Select lower point and add a color like bottom sky - dark red

Since the sky is multicolored, I add one more point to the gradient line and choose a new color for it. And resize a sky restangle again to leave a place at the bottom for earth restangle

Colorful sky

Sky and earth base is ready!

In next step I draw the sun with **Create circles, ellipsis and arcs** tool

Pick a color right from the picture

and replace to artwork

For drawing a sunset clouds I choose **Draw Bezier curves and Straight Line** tool again

fill it with linear gradient

and replace to artwork too

and move it one object lower (*lower than the earth*)

I paint other clouds in the same way

I also take a color directly from the picture of the sample I try not to copy the sample picture one to one, but at the same time I keep some separate fragments, as in the original

Some clouds I modify with **Edit path by nodes** tool to make them look more dynamic

This is how the sky and the sun will look like in the setting clouds.

So, time to draw upper atmospheric clouds! I just fill the first cloud with color, blur it slightly and lower the opacity.

And then I just improvise with shapes and gradients.

You can also create multi-color gradients by simply adding new markers to the lines.

Very nice and airy!

Then I draw a star with **Create stars and polygons** tool

Modification with **Edit path by nodes** tool

I move it to the picture and adjust the size, along the way change the color to a lighter one

I select a star, copy and paste in place, then change a size and opacity for it

To draw the nebula, I zoom in on the document to 300% and create several small circles of different sizes.

Then I group them into one object

Fill it white and with **Spray object by sculpting or painting** tool draw a big cluster of stars

If there are too many stars, you can switch to the Eraser in the tool properties panel and erase unnecessary elements.

Then I select all objects, move them to the background, blur and lower the opacity

I again ungroup individual nebulae and move the stars in different ways.

To draw a distant planet, I draw a circle with **Create circles, ellipsis and arcs** tool, choose a base color for it and in the **"Fill and Stroke"** palette click on the icon of the radial gradient. The object is automatically filled with a gradient from color to transparency and gets beautiful blurred edges.

The sky is completely ready,

I move on to the creation of the earth use **Draw Bezier curves and Straight Line** tool for it again and black color

I also draw the tree trunk using **Draw Bezier curves and Straight Line** tool

But I want to draw the tree branches using **Draw freehand lines** tool. This tool, like **Draw Bezier curves and Straight Line** tool, has an option in the settings, in which you can draw with objects from the clipboard

So, I draw several bizarre shapes, like these

I copy one or the other to the clipboard and do the strokes by **Draw freehand lines** tool

Each of the branches, if necessary, can be modified using **Edit path by nodes** tool (but first converting it to a contour ( **Path - Object to Path** )

Does this plant look like an African exotic tree?

I also draw silhouettes of animals and grass using **Draw Bezier curves and Straight Line** tool

Oh yes, and birds, of course! Its **Create circles, ellipsis and arcs** tool and **Draw Bezier curves and Straight Line** tool

That's it, I made my vector African burning sunset!

Two variants

I hope you find my new tutotial very informative ;) Thanks for your attention! Have a nice and creative day for all! Regards Gera