pony vector tips

i am still learning inkscape any tips that you can give? including eyes

i do vectoring on photoshop. in my opinion this is way easier to use on ps cs6 because it has a great interface. maybe if inkscape is much like ps, i could help you

@maxime12  
it is but it’s free

well maybe i can help out on it. if your not busy, my skype is maxime1997 (i think) and i could show you

@Background Pony  
I don’t Skype

There are a lot of tutorials out there. Are there specific ones you’ve looked and found wanting in some way?

The main DA vector club has loads of pony-specific Inkscape tutorials here
 
I recommend you also take a look at Ponyscape. It’s less stable than Inkscape, but makes certain things much easier (namely variable stroke widths via Powerstrokes).

@The Smiling Pony  
i have ponyscape, but i need help with clipping the eyes and at least the eyelashes plus the eye in general.

@prince elusive  
This took me a few minutes to whip up:  

@The Smiling Pony  
thanks

@The Smiling Pony  

Inkscape user here. It’s been a while, but I’ll try to help.
 
Minor tip #1: simplify curves obsessively for smoothness, and keep doing it as you work and checking the results. Ctrl-L will get you some of the way, as will deleting nodes, but note that both methods make sharp angles fairly frequently. You can re-highlight all the nodes of a simple line (F2, Ctrl-A) and hit “make selected nodes smooth” to smooth things out again.
 
I generally start dotting in body strokes in a fairly angular fashion as single lines, then do the above for a body stroke to get it looking right. Then set an appropriate line width and round caps, and use Stroke to Path to get an object that can be thinned and pinched at the end for a nice calligraphic taper-off. You get into a bit of a rhythm doing it after a while.

@when she felt her wings unfold  
You need to try ponyscape, and power strokes. It makes all that much easier. Should be a youtube intro somewhere on the Ponyscape page, I think.

@The Smiling Pony  
The powerstrokes thing looks cool. I’ll stick with stock for now though (us Debian users are famously stick-in-the-mud), but if it has a public git repo somewhere I might follow it.

@when she felt her wings unfold  
Ah, not gonna have much luck with that, then; Ponyscape support is discontinued as the guy wants to make his own thing from scratch.
 
AFAIK powerstrokes are available as an extension for Inkscape and should be integrated at some point, though.