Inkscape - Vector Graphics Tutorials

Inkscape is an open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG).

Inkscape comes with a full set of tutorials right in the "Help" menu. Here are links to the tutorials in HTML form but you'll want to use the ones in the program for teaching as they are interactive. These seven tutorials should get you off to a good start with your classes.

  1. Basic tutorial
  2. Advanced tutorial
  3. Shapes tutorial
  4. Bitmap tracing tutorial
  5. Calligraphy
    tutorial
  6. Elements of Design
    tutorial
  7. Tips and tricks