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Title: PPT Drawing TutorialBy: Colin Neal

An in depth PowerPoint art tutorial

By Colin Neal

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Tutorial 7Tutorial 7

Tutorial

• Tutorial 1

• Frying an egg

• In this tutorial you will learn some simple techniques that should enable you to draw more effectively.

• The drawing tools you will use are:

• Oval, Curve, Trapezoid and Fill effects

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Drawing in PowerPoint

• Anyone can draw using PowerPoint, it is all a question of patience.

• The following tutorial will start of pretty basic and lead you to use the same techniques on more advanced artworks.

• The tutorial will assume that you know very little about drawing in PPT

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Graphic One

• Fried egg

• Your starting point is to ensure that the snap to grid function is off.

Un-check

Check this box to display the grid lines on screen

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Frying pan• We start out by creating a simple looking

frying pan. The first tool to use is the oval tool from the drawing toolbar.

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Draw two oval shapes as show below.

This must be your first shape (shape 1)

Shape 2

Shape 1

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Drag and place the top shape (shape 2) over the bottom one as shown above

Add a 3rd oval shape as shown in fig 3

Figure 2

Figure 3

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OK, let’s add some fill colour and fill effects.

Fill shape 3 with black.

Open the fill colour menu by clicking here

Choose black, fill shape 2 by opening the fill colour menu and choosing fill effects two colours> vertical shading style and choose this shade, repeat

for shape 1, but use grey and black

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The Handle

The handle is a simple Trapezoid from AutoShapes>Basic Shapes filled in the same way as the other objects.

Open the AutoShapes menu, choose basic shapes then Trapezoid, draw a short shape as shown, fill using fill effects, two colours and choose brown and black. Choose (No line)

Repeat using a small oval shape

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The frying pan is now complete and ready for the egg, before you go any further you should group the objects together. To do this open the Edit menu and click select all then right click on the objects, go to grouping and left click Group.

Now your objects are grouped you might like to enlarge the graphic.

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Enlarged view of the frying pan and the drawing of the fried egg

We will start off by drawing the egg white using the Curve tool from Lines in the AutoShapes menu (see the following slide)

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Egg

Curve tool

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The eggUsing the curve tool draw a shape similar to this

Fill the shape with white

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The eggThe egg yoke is an oval shape with No Line colour. Draw an oval as shown

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The eggFill the oval shape using fill effects and two colours, you will need orange and yellow, horizontal shading and have the top colour yellow.

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Adding the finishing touches. Click on the egg yoke shape and add a shadow effect

This one

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Adding the finishing touches.

Add another oval shape as shown, this shapes needs to be filled using two colours from the fill effects menu. Do the following:

Colour one should be set at 100% transparency,

shading style from centre and the centre

colour must be white

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Finally:

Add some shadow to the egg white using the curve tool and line colour grey

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Tutorial Eye

• In this tutorial you will use the same tools as in the previous one but apply them to face drawing.

• Drawing a human eye

• The emphasis on this tutorial is to draw a simple human eye.

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Simple Eye drawing

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The drawing isn’t perfect by any means, the idea is to keep things simple and this way you will develop on the techniques demonstrated.

The eye is made up of ovals, fill effects and the curve tool.

Let’s take the eye apart

Used for demo only

4 point star from stars and banners in AutoShapes

Oval with transparency

Curve tool

Oval

moon

Ovals

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Step 1The staring point is to shading, use the oval tool to create this for the surround of the eye socket.

Draw an oval shape (No Line) and fill using fill effects, as shown

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Step 2

Draw another oval shape as shown and use fill effects>two colours>white and light grey>vertical shading

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Eye sockets

For the eye sockets I used moon shape from AutoShapes, we need two of these (No Line)

The yellow triangle is for adjusting the depth of the shape

Rotate the shape using the green circle and fit it to the bottom of the eye as shown.

Fill the shapes using two colours, e.g. brown and black

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Eyeball

The eyeball is just another oval shape filled using fill effects and two colours, in this case brown and black, from centre and the brown being the centre colour

We need to add a star shape for detail to the eyeball, I used 4 point star from AutoShapes

See next slide

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4 Point Star

4 point star. AutoShapes>Stars and Banners

You will need to narrow the star shape using the yellow triangle so that it looks like fig 2

Copy and paste the narrowed star then rotate as shown, repeat this until you get a shape as in fig 3

Group the star shapes then drag them onto the eyeball

Fig 2

Fig 2

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Pupil and Glint

The Pupil is once again an oval shape and filled with black

The glint is also an oval but filled using fill effects>two colours and with the blue colour set to 100% transparency (No Line)

Adding highlights

For this I used a moon shape from AutoShapes and used fill effects orange and transparency (no line)

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Eyelashes

The curve tool from AutoShapes and lines was used to create the eyelashes

You should be able to finish off the eye from here, have at look at some eye images on the Internet for ideas

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Nose Tutorial

• This Tutorial will show you how to draw a simple nose

Rule of Halves

When drawing faces it is important to follow the rule of halves. Basically you need to divide the face into sections as shown in fig 1

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Eye line, note that the top of the ears are also on the eye line.

Bottom of the nose line

Bottom lip lineCentre line

Alternative angle

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Nose

Ok let’s get started on the nose

The starting point is to create some shadow using an oval shape and fill effects with transparency. See fig 2

We now need to create tow more oval shapes as shown, using fill effects and transparency, make these slightly lighter than the skin tone using custom colours.

Fig 2

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We now need another oval for the ball of the nose, do this as before using oval>fill effects and transparency, (No Line)

Copy and paste the ball of the nose and stretch it out and use this for the bridge of the nose

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Nostrils

Once aging the nostrils are just oval shapes filled using fill effects and transparency, I used dark brown, try adding a couple of highlights to the nose as shown

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Mouth

• Here we will draw a simple mouth, the tools to use are curve and fill effects.

• Choose the curve tool from AutoShapes and draw the shape of the mouth as shown below, this should be done in two section, bottom lip and top lip.

To refine the shape, right click and then left click on edit points

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Filling the mouth

We now have our shapes for the mouth, all we need to do now is fill them. Use fill effects and two colours. (No Line)

A pale pink flesh tone and black should do for now, for the top lip the dark colour needs to be at the bottom and bottom lip the dark shade needs to be at the top

You can finish of the lips by adding shading and highlights as shown

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Putting it together

OK! Let’s put it all together and see what it looks like, we can add hair later

A little scary I know but it is coming along

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Hair

Hair is the difficult bit, but with practice and perseverance you can achieve acceptable results.

I make small pieces of hair and experiment with fill effects until I get what I want.

Use the curve tool for the hair.

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Hair

The colour I have used is two colours, light brown and dark brown and shaded from centre

Stretch the hair shape as show below then copy and past a few of them to build the hair up.

Once you are happy with the shape of the hair group the objects then place them on your subject

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Hair

All you need to do now is copy and paste the strands of hair and put them into place.

Use the rotate function in the draw meny to flip verticle and horizontal

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Hair

We are nearly done, the subject just needs some highlights and shadows to finish it off.

Once again just use oval, fill effects and transparency to do this

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Finish

• Now I know she isn’t perfect but it should give you a good idea of how to use shading and create the different sections for a facial drawing

• Good luck and have fun

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