Illustrating Using Adobe Animate

 

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Illustrating Using Adobe Animate

                Adobe Animate is a multimedia tool meaning it is not solely for animation but you can also use this software to draw or illustrate shapes, objects or the desired character you wanted to draw. Creating an animate or illustrating something is easy with Adobe Animate Application. Do you want to make some cool characters out of rectangles and ovals? Then, this particular blog will teach you how to draw basic character using Animate.

ILLUSTRATING BASIC CHARCTER

                The following are the steps in illustrating basic character using Adobe Animate:

           STEP 1- The first thing you do is to open the Adobe Animate in your PC.

           STEP 2- Click and hold the mouse while selecting the Rectangle Tool.

STEP 3- Choose Rectangle Primitive.

STEP 4- Drag the slider in the Rectangle Options to change the object's corner radius.

STEP 5- Choose the Oval Tool.

STEP 6- Select the Object Drawing option.

STEP 7- Draw a big oval for the face of your character. Then, change the fill and stroke color of the face.

STEP 8- Choosing the primitive oval tool, create a small oval to create the eyes of the character.

STEP 9- Using the primitive oval tool create a big circle by changing its radius for the mouth of the character.

STEP 10- Right after, click the selection tool then drag the mouse to the choose the half portion of the circle then delete it.

STEP 11- Then drag the half circle near the eyes of the character. Then, using the selection tool drag the mouse to the upper portion of the semi-circle to create the teeth of the character.

STEP 12- Using the selection tool the drag the mouse to lower portion of the half circle and once selected change the color of the selected portion to create the tongue of the character and slightly curved it.

STEP 13- Repeat STEP 9 and STEP 10, but this time you have to drag and hold the mouse to the lower portion of the circle and delete it, creating the forehead or shall we say the bangs of the character which this part is created the upper portion of the half circle.

STEP 14- Using the selection tool- drag and hold the mouse to the lower middle of the forehead then change its shape into triangular shape.

STEP 15- Using the primitive oval tool create a big circle by changing its radius for the hair of the character. Right click the oval then choose arrange and select send back.

STEP 16- Using the primitive rectangular tool create a small rectangle for the neck of the character.

STEP 17- Using the selection tool- drag and hold the mouse to the upper portion of the small rectangle and once selected change its color a darker color of the color of your neck.

STEP 18-  Using the primitive oval tool create a big oval for the body of the character.

STEP 19-  Using the primitive oval tool create an oval, then use the selection tool and select the lower portion and delete so the upper portion is reserved for the sleeve of the character.

STEP 20- Repeat STEP 19 but this time for the skirt of the character.

STEP 21- Using the primitive rectangular tool create a small rectangle for the feet of the character.

STEP 22- Using the primitive oval tool create a small oval for the shoes of the character.

FINISH OUTPUT

LEARNING OUTCOMES ACHIEVED:

            In doing this activity I was able to attain or learn to use primitive drawing tools like rectangle and oval tools to draw basic shapes, work with Object Drawing mode and object snapping and sculpt  artwork using selection tools.

Drawing with the Brush Tool

                The Paint Brush tool, unlike the existing Brush tool, is based on strokes. You can draw stylized brush strokes with the Paint brush tool by dragging the pattern of the selected art brush along the drawn path. You can add brush strokes to existing paths, draw a path and add a brush stroke at the same time with the Paintbrush tool, or customize the smoothening output of your image.

                This blog will show you some of the enhancements to the Brush Tool including brush sizes, presets, and sub-selections and teach you to draw a character using the brush tool of the Adobe Animate.

Here are the following steps to draw with the brush tool in Adobe Animate:

STEP 1- The first thing you do is to open the Adobe Animate in your PC.

STEP 2- Then you can insert or paste in the layer section a character you wanted to draw.

STEP 3- Using the line tool, you can follow or trace the character you wanted draw, but you must consider the stroke size, color which can be found in the properties panel and select the size and color option respectively. Then it requires to modify and curve the line then you can click the selection tool to do this step.

STEP 4- After tracing the character, delete the original image that serve as your guide where it shows a thin outline along the shape regions according to the layer color.

STEP 5-  Then you can choose the classic brush tool. Then in the properties panel in the tool option select the brush mode and paint behind to color your character.

FINISH OUTPUT:

LEARNING OUTCOMES ACHIEVED:

In doing this activity I was able to attain or learn to use the Brush tool to draw artwork, explore the Brush tool options, work with Object Drawing mode and experiment with applying different paint options.

 

DRAWING WITH THE LINE TOOL

                The drawing above which is the bridge was created using the line tool in Adobe Animate. In order to create such, you must remember the following:

• -          Go to the Properties Panel where you can modify the stroke size, width and scale depending of what you desire but make sure that use is it appropriately.
• -          Then if it requires to tilt or curve, you can select the selection tool and then you can tilt it.
• -          You can draw art and pattern strokes with variable width by applying pressure or tilting the stylus. To fine-tune the width points even further, use the Width tool.
• -          If you wish to add background from the internet or from your computer, then you can add it but make sure that your main character or layer is must be send it front by doing the right click then choose arrange and select bring front. 

LEARNING OUTCOMES ACHIEVED:

                In doing this activity I was able to attain or learn to use line tool to draw an artwork, discover more about the line tool especially in modifying its size, width and scale and able to use the width tool to add variable of the width, and enhancing strokes and shape.