Margaux's First Projects

The picture above is an example of a specific technique called layering. Each picture is made up of multiple layers of different shapes created by a tool called the "Bezier." 

The picture shown below, is a clown and was used with a tool in CoralDraw, the "Bezier" along with the circle and triangle. It is amazing what a person can do with a few shapes and an imagination.

Have you ever just played around with the paint or draw feature on the computer? Or have you just tried making shapes look like objects? Well, here is a fun way to make objects on the CorelDRAW program.

Now, can you guess what this clown is made of? If you guessed shapes…. well that much is obvious, but the shapes are on top of another, a technique known as layering, its handy when trying to make three dimensional or highly detailed objects. By using premade shapes and simply using the shape tool, you can really design some neat artwork (tip: if you don’t want outlines on something, just go to the outline button and hit no outline)

So what if you have a really cool design or picture and want to alter it, what do you do? You can trace it! “gasp!, is this possible?” Why yes it is, just by using the Bezier tool. When you use the Bezier tool, you can use other features such as the shape tool to change how it looks. All you have to do is use the Bezier tool to outline the the shape (just remember that wherever you began, you also have to finish!)

See, you can even color the image just by using the fill button, and the best part is, you can even color the image however you want!

I hope these tips might help you

Connor

Drew's Clown and Warren

In this picture we had to create a clown the face, cheeks nose, eyes, and rim of the hat were made using the circle tool. Everything else was created using the bezier tool except for the bow tie which was made using a rectangle tool, however I manipulated the nodes, duplicated the shape and blended a smaller black bow tie and a larger red one.

This gorilla piece was originally a Far Side piece which was scanned into the computer. Then the bezier tool was used again and the legs, chest, body, face, and arms were traced as well as the tree. I then filled the shapes.

Clown!

Again, I used CorelDraw x4. This time I used the shape tools and the interactive blend tool.

The first two assignments in Junior Year

 To create this clown above, I had to use the Ellipse Tool, which is a tool to make circular shapes.  Then we had to just make what you think a clown looks like, and this is what I came up with.  For the bowtie, I used the Ellipse Tool to make an oval, and then I used the Shape Tool, which modifies shapes and figures using the nodes of the shape. You can also add nodes to the shapes as well.  For the hair and the eyebrows, I used the Bezier Tool, which makes lines that can connect and then fill them.  I used the same shape for the both, then I used the Blend Tool, to mix the colors.

For this project, I used a birthday card to find a picture that I wanted to recreate.  This was my favorite projects so far.  This took me a long time to do.  This project was done with the Bezier Tool and creating many layers.

                                                               -Aidan

For this assignment, we chose an animated image from a card and imported it into CorelDraw. From there, we played around with the different layers and used the bezier tool to make our own copy of the original image.

Clown

This clown was also created in CorelDRAW X4. Using the shape and blending tools I made him. I'll be posting again soon!
-Ana Rose

Froggie

I created this image using CorelDraw X4. Scanning an image in, I used the bezier tool to trace the frog. The frog has many layers and each has it's own shape. When all layers are being shown, they make up the frog. The left image is the scanned one and the right is the one I created.
-created by Ana Rose

First ever!

Hey! It's Lauren's creepy clown and the aliens! I used my bezier tool to make the clown and to trace my aliens. They turned out kinda good! :)
                                                                        -The first of many from LAS!

Sam's First Projects

So what I did was make the face and bow tie using basic shapes.  Then I used the bezier tool to make one piece of the afro.  After I copy and pasted, then I used to blend tool to make all the colors blend together.

The bottom picture is the original card, which I brought to school and scanned into the computer.  After, I used the bezier tool to trace the parts I wanted.  What I learned was it was necessary to have a lot of layers so that I could go back later and color it all in properly. Keep close, I'll be posting again soon.

Let's get started . . .

Each student will be posting their various works over the school year.  The first two works are a clown drawn with the basic tools and the next is a tracing using the bezier tool.