Animal Heads

We are still working on Vector Graphics and have started to ake animal head. We used many new tools whilst making the animals including difference which I used to make new shapes from, so for example to make a cresent shape I overlapped two circles and then difference makes only the part that is not overlapped show. I also practised using intersection which I used for the stripes of the zebra. This makes the stripes fit the face exactly. The heads were fun to make but also hard and they took lots of work and time.

Here are some more examples:

Fruit

This was a drawing I did early on in Digital Art. It was made in Inkscape. For the Banana I made a circle and then shaped it with nodes. At the time this was very challenging for me but now I have a lot more skills it will be a lot easier. The grapes I used circles and then edited them to make the shapes more accurate and grape like. I would now probably be able to make them look better.

Animals

In Digital Art we made whole animals including the bodies. For the heads which we made earlier we just used path operations and basic shapes but for these we had to use a new tool,the bezier tool. With the bezier tool you can make straight lines and you can also curve the lines round. After you edit the nodes to make the shape looks better. I made the legs, arms, stomach and mouth with the bezier tool. For the head and ears I used basic shapes.  Another animal I made was a fish, I made this mainly with the bezier tool.

 Whilst I was making the animal it was fun to make. I also learnt so much about the bezier tool and how to use it better. It was confusing at first but now I understand it.

When I made the fish I also used gradients to make the different colours on the fish. I learnt how to do this when making animal heads but I have now developed it in this piece of work.