Conclusion

[Edit] Just as I was going to submit this tutorial, I noticed that the people at bittbox.com created a grunge tutorial ahead of me. Take a look at How to Make Vector Grunge from Bittbox.com. Bittbox.com looks like a very solid design site, I suggest that you take a look at the rest of their tutorials. [/Edit]

I honestly hope that by this time next year this tutorial will be obsolete, and that Inkscape will have brush capabilities similar to Adobe's products. As always, I welcome your feedback and encourage you to link to my tutorials.

.... and about future tutorials?
I will explain how to create the pentagonal thingamajig, and the calligraphic strokes on the arm. Or maybe something different altogether, depends on what your feedback is like :-)

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