Section 2

In this section we are layering more and more things and making more and more better shapes. We got a loads of links to directions of different things. First I chose to make a penguin in Inskape. We used the f5 button to use the eclipse tool to help make the penguin.

Cartoon head

For this section we got a post of youtube which was how to make a cartoon head on Inkscape.. In watching this video we leart how to use the Bezier tool which helped us use freehand lines or shapes and we leart how to insert more nodes and how to do gradients. The face above is the first one I made using the help then I tried doing one on my own but is is still a Work in Progress.

Hearts and layering!!!

In my last post the picture was of 3 boring hearts. But from those 2-D images we used our knowledge to make our new hearts more sophisticated and look way cooler! This hearat is actually 3 different hearts layered on top of each other. The first layer was the background which was a dark red. Then the second layer was red with an orange gradient and the 3rd layer was a white gradient which is used to make it look more 3-D. With each of the hearts you had to make each one a little smaller than the rest in order that you could see all the different layers

Introduction to using Inkscape and making shapes

This my first blog of Digital Art '10 in ZIS. We are going to learn a whole heap of things. We have started by using basic images on Inscape. The first image I made was a dogbone and the next was a heart, which was quite tricky because we had to use nodes which are handles which help you make the shape you wanted and we had to . We made these hearts out of triangles and cirles but you could make them out of pretty much any shape you wanted. Here is the first hearts I made. we inserted colour into our shape. The biggest heart above I used a colour gradient so that I could so it looks much better. In the biggest heart it has loads of different colours which was quite tedious really. That is a summary of our first lessons in Digital Art