Inkscape: Seamlessly Tileable Brick Wall

Hungry to learn more? Check out my skillshare page: Getting Started Inkscape: http://skl.sh/2yzcHeE Create Seamless Tiles in Inkscape: http://skl.sh/2y5Co23 Step by step instructions on how to create a seamless brick wall texture. Setup the seamless tile: - Enable the grid - Draw to bricks (95 by 30 and 45 by 30) - Enable snap nodes and snap grids - Give the bricks rounded corners and remove the stroke - Arrange the bricks in pattern and draw a gray background - The background must be exactly the right size - Make the background a ground and set the x-coordinate to 0 - Create tiled clones (Edit -- Clone -- Create Tiled Clones) - Move the background group to the left - Cut and paste the bricks into the group Add filters to give the bricks a texture: - Add a film grain filter to the background (Filters -- Image Effects -- Film Grain) - Create a new texture named Large Bricks - Add an image effect and load the bricktexture.jpg - Note: the width and height of the jpg have the same proportions as the width and height of the brick - Set the Filter General Settings - Add a color matrix to convert the red value in the image to transparent - Add diffuse lighting (the transparency of the previous effect will act as the height map for the lighting) - Add a composite effect to combine the diffuse lighting with the original graphic Add filters to make the brick look more 3D: - Add a Gaussian blur to make the edges more transparent - Adjust the Filter General Settings - Add a diffuse lighting effect - Add another composite effect - Apply the same filter to the rest of the big bricks Modify the filter for the smaller bricks: - Duplicate the filter - Update the image effect to include the image of the smaller brick Get 60% off on my Udemy course on creating textures in inkscape using this coupon: https://www.udemy.com/creating-textures-in-inkscape/?couponCode=INKSCAPE_TEXTURE