How to Draw Bananas Using Inkscape

	When I was drawing, the bananas just sitting on my desk. If you like to draw a set of bananas with different look, read this tutorial then draw based on yours. The basic rules are the same. Step1: Use Bezier Curves tool draw a path with banana shape. This is the most important part of drawing. Whether it will like a real banana depends the shape. It probably will take a bit time to draw such irregular shape, also depends on the angle you see it. I found it is much easier to turn the grid on when draw the path, since you can easily work out where the points should be located. Then adjust them after. (To turn on grid, go to View –> Grid, or click # key.) When you satisfied with the shape, fill it with a yellow colour. The colour here is #eebf06ff.
	Step2: Now draw the highlight shadow of the banana. Again, use Bezier Curves tool to draw a moon shape path. Make sure the curves are parallel to the top and bottom curves of the banana you just drew. Use the handle to adjust the curves till you are satisfied with, then fill in with a very light yellow colour. We want to highlight the center. To do this, draw another moon shape path with much smaller size, and move it to the center of the big one. Fill this little path with radial gradient, from white(center) to the light yellow colour you just picked for the big moon shape. Now your banana should look like this.
	Step3: To make more depth to the banana, we want to make the outside edge of the banana darker. We use Clip here. Duplicate the banana shape from step1, stroke it with a very dark yellow colour (close to black), then adjust the blur bar to about 3. Remove the fill color for this shape. Duplicate this path and remove the blur for the stroke as show here.
	Step4: Now move the path without blur on top of the one with blur. Go to Object –> Clip –> Set. It should like the image shown here.
	Step5: Move the clipped path on top of the banana you just drew. make sure the edges are finely closed. Your banana now looks much more depth.
	Step6: Make the head and end of banana. Use Ellipse tool draw an ellipse shape, rotate it above 45 degrees, and fill with slightly dark yellow color. Duplicate this ellipse and then fill it with black colour.
	Step7: Move the black ellipse on top of yellow one. Duplicate another smaller ellipse and fill it with radial gradient, from bright yellow colour to black.
	Step8: Move the gradient ellipse on top of the other two, group these three ellipses together. Now you have head and end.
	Step9: Duplicate the head, put them at the two ends of banana. You need to rotate the heads and ends to fit the angle of the banana. Now group them all together. Your single banana has been finished.
	Step10: Duplicate a couple of bananas, and adjust their length, height and angles.
	Step11: Put these single bananas together. Make sure their head are all together. Your probably find the head of this banana set is a little bit messy. To make it more like a set, we need a bigger head to hide the multiple little heads. Duplicate the head you just made, make it slightly bigger, then put it on top of the head. Now your bananas should like image shown here.
	Step12: The final step is to make the shadow. You can simply use Ellipse tool draw an ellipse and fill it with black to white radial gradient. However, I like to draw another path based on the shape of banana. This will make it more realistic. Use Bezier Curves tool draw a path on top of bananas, adjust angles till smooth. Fill it with black to white radial gradient, then blur it.
	Step13: Move the shadow at the bottom of bananas. The position depends on where the light from. You can adjust the opacity if necessary to fit the darkness of shadow. Now we have drawn a cute banana set as image shown This icon is from Fruity PSP theme, there are more icons you can download from Download Icons. You can also down load this Fruity PSP Theme. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.