Friday, October 5, 2007

Learning to draw in Fireworks


This is a map of my hometown, Oneonta. The original image was a screen capture from Mapquest. I traced the streets in gray, using the vector pen tool, used shapes to create the three large masses of Hartwick College, SUNY Oneonta and Wilber Park. And yes, blue and white are Hartwick's colors and Oneonta's are red and white. And well, a park is green.

The point of this exercise was to get used to drawing in Fireworks. My hand is a bit shaky, but I think I like the free handedness better than just using straight lines. I really like all the creative choices that Fireworks gives us. My shapes are only solid fill, but I could have given them a design or even just given the border a design.

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