Ladybug and Tube



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This tutorial will familiarize you, at least a little with vectors and the pen tool.   Since this is very graphic intense, it is split into 2 pages.  This page is the shape and the next page will be the coloring.


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  1. Open a new image 500px x 500px white background then add a new layer.  Set foreground color to black and background to nil.
  2. Click on the preset shapes tool and choose the eclipse with anti-alias and create as vector checked.   Draw a large oval.  (refer to the picture below)
  3. Click on the pen tool and while holding the ctrl key, add two nodes similar to below:
Ladybug shape
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  1. Now click on node 1 and drag it down in line with nodes 5 and 6 similar to this:
Ladybug node placement
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  1. Click on node 5 and push the arrow to reduce the hump a little.   Click on node 6 and do the same by pushing the circle.   Refer to picture below:
Ladybug flatten nodes
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  1. Click on the new contour button and add 3 new nodes as shown below.
Ladybug node placement
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  1. Click on node 8 then right click->node type->symetric and drag the node out to the right a little.   Then drag the node down a little.
Ladybug node placement
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  1. Now drag nodes 7 and 9 on top of nodes 1 and 3.  (You can not add nodes over other nodes.) The lines need to intersect for later steps .
  2. Click on new contour button and add 4 new nodes as shown below:
Ladybug node placement
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  1. Click on node D then right click->node type->symetrical and pull the circle outward then pull the node upward slightly (refer to the next picture for this and the next 3 steps)
node placement
  1. Activate node A right click->node type->curve before and pull the circle until it has just a hint of an outward curve.  Then drag the node down slightly closer to the body.
  2. Activate node C then right click->node type->curve after and shape it like you did for node A.
  3. Now pull node B down closer to the body.
  4. Convert to raster.  You should have something similar to this:
Ladybug shape
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