How to Create a Seamless Cute Birds and Owls Pattern in Inkscape

The first tutorial in Inkscape today, I want to show you how to create a seamless pattern. We will be creating the cute birds and owls pattern using the Ellipse tool, the Polygon tool and the Clone.

Create the Owl

Step 1

1. Create a New File Document in Inkscape. Firstly, we make the owl’s body. Draw an ellipse with the Ellipse tool (F5). Go to Object>Fill and Stroke (Shift+Ctrl+F). Fill it with CMYK color mode  #abc837ff (picture 1).

2. Draw a triangle shape with the Polygon tool. Fill it with #44550072. Rotate it 45°. Copy and Paste. Flip it Horizontally. Select both by (F1). Align them Horizontally or Object>Align and Distribute>Center on Horizontal Axis (Shift + Ctrl + A). Place the ears behind the body (picture 2)

Step 2

1. Lets create the eyes. Draw two circles. Place them like image below. Fill the color with #2b2200ff. Go to Path>Union (Ctrl + +).

2. Make three circles.

3. Lets draw his nose. Make it by triangle shape. Fill the color with #decd87ff. Go to Path>Object to Path (Shift+Ctrl+C). Pick the Nodes tool (F2). Choose Make Selected Nodes Auto-Smooth.

4. This result image.

Step 3

1. Make two circles then overlapping like this.

2. Select both (F1). Go to Path>Difference (Ctrl + -). Fill it with #504416ff.

3. Make some feathers by (Copy and Paste) like this.

Step 4

Draw a triangle shape again. Grab the Stars and Polygon tool in the Tool Box. Choose the Polygon mode, set Corners: 3. Go to Path>Object to Path (Shift+Ctrl+C). Using the Nodes tool add node on the center of the top node, go back to Path>Object to Path (Shift+Ctrl+C). Pull the top node a bit up and click on Make Selected Nodes Symmetric button. As same as for the right and left side node. After that just drag the bottom node a bit down. Fill it with #445500fe. Make a triangle shape for the nail. Fill it with #f4e3d7ff.

Then duplicated it by Edit>Duplicate (Ctrl+D). Create three feet. Group them. Then Duplicate it for the right owl’s feet.

Step 5

Draw an ellipse for the owl’s wing. Rotate it 120°. Fill it with #ffdd55ff. Make a copy the owl’s body. Selected it and the ellipse shape then go to Path>Division (Ctrl+/). Do same step to the right owl’s wing.

Draw the Cute bird

Step 6

Draw a brown ellipse for the body and modify the nodes into like image below.

For the bottom of the beak, fill its with #d4aa0ff. Create the eyes, the tails, and the feet.

Put  the beak, the tails, and the feet behind the owl’s body.

Step 7

For the wing, just duplicate the body shape.

Draw the Second Bird

Step 8

Grab the Ellipse tool. Holding the Ctrl key and drag into your canvas area. Go to Path>Object to Path (Shift+Ctrl+C). Adjust the curve of the body shape like image below. Fill it with #9955ffff.

Step 9

1. Create two circles. Put them like image below.

2. Go to Path>Intersection (Ctrl + *). Drag a bit wider.

3. Change the top node to Make Selected Nodes Smooth.

4. Drag the bottom node a bit down. Fill it with #d5ffe6ff.

Step 10

Put the wing like this. Then give the bird a black beak and the eye.

Draw the Third Bird

Step 11

Draw the body shape for our third bird. Set the fill to #de87aaff. Make simply eyes and the peak.

Step 12

For the wings, create three ellipses and adjust the wings like image below. The fill  #782167f8. Duplicate the wing. Flip it Horizontally.

Step 13

This is the result of our the third bird.

Step 14

Time’s for create the stem. You just simply make a long regtangle shape. Convert Object to Path (Shift+Ctrl+C). Modify the regtangle to this (see below image). Add triangle shapes for the branches.

Step 15

Create one circle and some highlight using the Bezier tool (Shift+F6).

Step 16

Put all of the stem elements.

Step 17

Now, I make another simply the stem with the leaves. Draw the leaf using the Ellipse tool. Convert Object to Path. Delete the right and left node. Drag the upper-handle points to the bottom. For the top node, select the Break Path option.

Step 18

Let’s give the bird a house with the rounded regtangle shape.

Step 19

I have simply flower or you can create another flower as what you want.

Create the Background

Step 20

Drag the Regtangle tool. Create a square. Set its 600 x 600 pixel. Set the color is #f4e3d7ff. Go to menu Object>Lower to Bottom (End). This will be our base tile. The important thing, you must to duplicate the bird (Ctrl+D) and go to Object>Transform>Move (Shift+Ctrl+M). Fill the Vertical axis to -600 px.

Step 21

You’ll see the bird moving to right place.

Step 22

Fill the end of the background with the stem, another bird and the flower like picture below.

Step 23

Select all objects of the end background. Group them together.

After you grouping, you’ll see the left picture, the owl’s feet is not incorrect place so I send the owl above of the stem again.

Clipping its

Step 24

Duplicate the background (Ctrl+D). Now you see the background on the top. Select the group of the birds on the end of the background and the top square. Go to Object>Clip>Set.

Step 25

Tadaa! You almost done create the tile pattern. Now, all of objects into the base square. Select all objects again or drag marquee (F1) and group them by (Ctrl+G).

Clone the Base Tile

Step 26

From the menu, go to Edit>Clone>Create Tiled Clones. I set the P1: Simple Translation form the drop-menu on the Symmetry option. Set the value of the Rows and Columns to 2 x 2. Don’t forget to do this important thing, make sure the option ‘Use saved size and positon of the tile’ is checked. Click on the Create button in the Clones dialog.

Step 27

This is the results. But it is not finished yet.

Step 28

Go to Edit>XML Editor (Shift+Ctrl+X). On my case, you’ll see the width and height for the tile set as 977 and 709.99918. We made the background is 600x600 pixels, right? Change the inkscape:tile-h to 600. Click on the Set button.

Step 29

Do same thing to the inkscape:tile-w to 600.

Step 30

Move the original tile out of the way. After that, select all objects. Group them by Ctrl+G.

Conclusion

We have just created a seamless cute birds and owls Pattern using Inkscape tool. It’s such a good tool, right?

Please add some comment below or maybe you want show off your own pattern.