How To Draw The Firefox Logo In Inkscape 🔥🦊

• March 10, 2024
• Nick Saporito
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Today’s tutorial is an exercise in using Inkscape as a tool for tracing, drawing and simulating gradients. Follow step-by-step as I demonstrate how to draw the Firefox logo using nothing but ellipses and the Pen Tool.

When drawing with vectors, I’ve found that it’s always helpful to try to visualize the simple shapes within a design, then use them as a starting point for building the rest of the logo.

Such is the case with the Firefox logo– we start out with a circle and then shape it like a lump of clay:

The steps taken to draw vector copies of the Firefox logo in Inkscape

If you want to follow along with what I’m doing in the tutorial you can grad a copy of the Firefox logo here. Just right-click the image to copy it, then paste it into Inkscape.

Watch the video tutorial at the top of the page for the complete step-by-step instructions.

Project File Download

If you want to download a copy of the project file I created when making this tutorial so you can inspect and edit it yourself, you can do so here: project-file.zip

Be sure to leave a comment below if you have any questions. As always, thanks for watching!

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