Use the node editor to edit a specific node (4) and change its values on the object panel (5). The Mesh fill works similar to the gradient fill, but you have different nodes on the outer rim of the object. Look for tutorials on how to use nodes and fills.

As you first asked about 'the theory' I only illustrated the point with 'X' program, it does not matter which one. The only gradient I think you do not have on Inkscape is (L) The last images are done in Inkscape. On Inkscape, I do not use any filter on the filters tab. I am only using in these images gradients blur and blending modes. Make a shape with the desired perspective.ĬLick the 'no longer text', click the domainĮxtensions > Generate from Path > Extrude It is not about having a ton of tools, but only a few and controlling them. Your leftmost version could be an image of a basketball. It's round, it has curves which look distorted like they were on a sphere and the main colors orange and black are also common. There's no gloss that light often makes if the material is not full matt and.it has not the shadow that common lightning creates.The curves are narrow, the one which is seen nearly sideways should be narrower, but the error is difficult to see. The nearest black curves are not at all wider than the more distant ones. As well we could say that it's drawn without perspective. The glosses are optional, because the material really can be matt. And the perspective can as well left out. If the light comes more from somewhere above the object and less from the sides, the shading could be this: It becomes then like its photographed from far away with a tele lens. In the left there's your original (clipped from your attachment, edges made sharp). In the middle there's an as big circle filled with a radial gradient from white to grey.

In the right the gradient shape is placed on the original with blending mode = multiply. How I decided the somehow not fully wrong gradient? I guessed it.

How to make shadow to text in inkscape