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Short tutor on drawing with DRAW-2
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FIRST: Buy a good and accurate mouse!
If you draw natural things:
- Draw help lines for percpective, if necessary.
- Draw coarce outline with f-draw (grid 8-64).
- Define outline further with drag (grid 4-8).
- Soften borders where neccesary with mosaic (grid 4?) or smear.
- Do all the fine details with zoom.
Important:
- Get all proportions right before advancing further.
- Nature hasn't got 'straight lines'.
- Important objects and objects in the front should have better
defined outlines (with thicker lines).
- Fuzz things that stick to eye too much.
If you draw technical things:
- Use helplines and grid.
- No freehand. Use lines, polys, circles, beziers...
- Get proportions right.
- Fill in the rasters.
- Dimension, if needed.
- Use some nice Gdosfonts + a few block effects.
- Buy a CAD program...
Try:
- Select Filled polygon (^W).
(- Select grid (F10).)
- Draw a shape.
- Press 'HELP' and select 'black' as the fill pattern.
- Click to insert the 'shadow' of your shape.
- Press 'HELP' and select 'grey' as the fill pattern.
- Click to insert the your shape over it's shadow.
- Use mosaic (^M) to fill in the intermediate 'colors' between
the shape, shadow of the shape and backround if necessary.
- Neat, huh?
Hints and Tricks
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1.
- Use separate screens to make parts which might ruin your earlier
efforts if mouse is used carelessly.
2.
- If you want to draw squares and circles instead of rectangles and
ellipses, you have to set X=Y option (F9).
3.
- Keypad has some keyboard shortcuts for block effects.
4.
- Block move and Drag with white fill will both work as an eraser.
5.
- Set grid on.
- Select drag function.
- Change grid size to a greater one (press HELP).
- Hmmm....
Using external modules:
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Make a file named modules.ext and include in it all the appropiate
info: Menu item name, fileselector extension (none if you don't want
a fileselection), program path.
Don't include anything else into the file (not even spaces), because
this might crash the program...
example:
Mgif (gif depack),*.GIF,c:\utils\mgif.ttp
If your program name ends in neither .tos nor ttp, Draw assumes
it uses windows... so you don't get the whole screen intact.