Inkscape

This was my first project in Inkscape to test the software. For the last few years I've had Adobe Illustrator on my windows machine, however I never got the chance to use it. Now that I have a MacBook Pro I can't be bothered spending several hundred Euros for the OSX version, so now I am Inkscape girl. For this experiment I wanted an image that I could easily trace and use as the bones of my drawing.

My inspirational muse was a photograph of a coffee cup that I imported as a new layer. This acted as my template for the drawing. Using the bezier tool I traced around the different sections of the cup and assigned them to different layers. Assigning each section of the cup to a new layer makes it easier to fill in later.

Tracing the cup was the easy part, after all a cup is just a cup, but colouring it in...

This is where I have my biggest challenge with Inkscape. For my first project I wanted to play with gradients, because I had been struggling with the gradient stop system.
My coffee cup has the advantage of only having a few solid blocks to be filled, meaning I could focus my energies on learning to use the gradients properly. I hope you all like it.