my first xara squiggle

[kelly3uk]

hi yeh i found that out but its annoying when i dont want the lines to meet ....
thanks.
how can you get back grounds like say if i wanted to do waves or the sky how can i show the texture by using colour??

thanks again its my first day on it today and im slowly learning new stuff im soooo adicted to it hehe

[kelly3uk]

see i want to colour muy wolf in but i cant?? any ideas is it cos the lines arnt joined even tho they look like they are?

[2-Cents]

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[kelly3uk]

i see thanks

[kelly3uk]

nasty elf robbing santa rudolf haha its nearly xmas..........not
its late and im bored but i cant stop drawing

[2-Cents]

Kelly you can add another dimension to your drawings with just a few clicks of the bevel tool.
To post your art directly in your post:
1. When your finished with your drawing, go to the File menu in Xara.
2. Find the ( Export ) function in the drop down list, and click on it.
3. A window will appear were you can name your art file and assign a file type.
4. Name your file and then in the box below click the drop down box
and save the file as a jpeg.
5. For now just keep it at (true color) and click Export.
6. remember were you saved it. When you post a new thread click the paper clip icon and attach the saved jpeg file.

[2-Cents]

Lots of cool stuff can be done in Xara. Watch the movies in the hep section.

[masque]

Rather than close the shapes you have already drawn in your wolf squiggle you could draw over them on another layer to produce closed shapes, fill with an appropriate colour and remove the line. Then place the filled shapes behind your drawing and change your line style to something more catoonish.
See attached.
Open your layer gallery and switch one or other layer off to see whats where.

The trouble with drawing rapidly in Xara is that you have to have the line smoothing just right. Turn it too far down and the line is a mess of points, too far the other way and its so smooth it bears no resemblance to what you meant to draw.
Drawing freely and then tracing carefully, or at least more slowly, the result on another layer gives you the option of retaining that freedom to draw rapidly while being able to produce shapes you can fill and another set of lines you can apply various profiles too or simply delete to leave your coloured shapes.
I get the impression you like to draw very quickly so this way might be a method of colouring afterwards rather than trying to close shapes drawn quickly with carefully added extra bits of line.
The alternative is to produce your drawing on paper, scan and manualy trace on a new layer to reproduce your sketch that way. Thats how I drew this pair, shown unfinished, for use in another drawing.

Derek