Jerry Lee

The following tutorial rests on the assumption that you are not a 3 year old.

Please be aware of this as we progress.

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JERRY LEE

Welcome to the single most original PowerPoint Tutorial in the planet! Provided entirely by yours truly, the Prince of PowerPoint himself.

Okay, so the first thing we need to do is set up the stage. Get rid of the Task Pane and the Slide Pane so we have a bigger space to work with.

Start with a blank layout, then click the following: Autoshapes | Lines.

Dock or float those tools somewhere for quick use. I keep mine floating just beside the slide.

Highlighted here is the Curve Tool. It’s going to be your best friend so get used to using it.

Connecting the dots is a fun game, so here’s an excuse to play. The Curve Tool re-orients itself after each click you make with it. Double click to end the curve where you want. Try imitating the shapes below. You can also create closed figures (the colored one on the right) by making your way back to where you started the curve. Don’t worry. It’s a bit hard to understand at first. But pretty soon, you should be able to do it intuitively.

Holding the Ctrl key makes your next click a straight line, sort of like a stick connected to the curvy wire. This comes in handy when you want to make corners while working with curves:

Okay, let’s move on to the good part…I’ll start you off with something crudely simple:Let’s call her Ms. Orange.

I know you’re thinking this is a rather ugly thing to start with. Baby steps my friend, baby steps. We’ll move on to the nicer-looking stuff later. For now, Ms. Orange should give you a good idea of the basics.PowerPoint has no direct drawing procedure, which makes it more systematic to correct mistakes. You’re not exactly drawing anything per se, but “building” & “stacking” objects together.

You draw parts of her one after the other, and arrange those parts to make up the image.

The best way to understand this process is to dissect Ms. Orange here. Don’t worry, she won’t feel a thing…

The first thing to know about this procedure is that you can “build” your artwork however you want. But the easiest way is to start with the biggest part first and go from there. In this case, it’s Ms. Orange’s head.

Use the Curve Tool to make an outline shaped just like this. By default, PowerPoint colors it in for you with this color. If not, you’ve probably messed around with the program once or twice.There’s no problem in doing that, I actually encourage you to mess around all you want.

Next thing we need to do is give her a decent skin color. Point to it, Right-click | Format Autoshape.

This little bugger pops up. This is the Format Object Box. As you can see by the tabs, you can format an object’s color, line, size, position, and other useless whatnot.

What you’re going to use most here is the Fill Area. This means the object’s color. Click the drop-down arrow and select the option Fill Effects.

The next thing you’ll see is the Fill Effects Box. Gradients are going to be yet another of your best friends.

As much as possible, try and make it look something like this. You’re smart. Figure it out. After that, choose the Variant I highlighted here (make sure you got the Shading Style right).

And voila! You’ve got yourself a sheet of skin! I tossed the ear and neck on as separate objects. As you can see, they’re just more of the same thing. It’s all a matter

of assembling the bits and pieces. If some parts overlap other parts in ways you don’t like, simply Right-click | Order and choose from the options. Make sure the object in question is selected when you do this.

So that’s it for the flesh.

Now, select all three objects by holding Shift and clicking on each of them once. Right-click | Grouping | Group and set it aside.

I’d say the eyes are the most complicated part. It’s crucial in showing detail for both anime and non-anime art. Take regular eyes for example…

Each anime eye is made up of at least 9 different parts.

Shall we dissect again?

You can make most of the parts on your own. But one thing you probably won’t be familiar with is this object:

But don’t worry. It’s not that hard to reproduce. In fact, you can do it in a couple of seconds.

First, use the Curve Tool to draw the basic shape of the object. To make pointy edges, use the Ctrl function.

Then follow through by adding these gradient settings in its Fill Effects Box. Note that I have changed the settings for the Transparancy Area.

And if you haven’t figured it out yet, you can remove the black line in the Format Object Box by clicking the Color attribute in the Line Area, and

selecting No Line.

Proceed to making the other eye in virtually the same way (I sort of cheated here to keep things short, but I won’t teach you this shortcut for the sake if simplicity).

Now, Group them together like you did with her head earlier. Keep it selected. For the first time, we’re going to use those white and green dots that appear around the object:Dragging the green dot around will allow you to

rotate the entire object. Dragging the white dots will stretch or scale your object depending on which one you drag. Practice them a little to get a hang of them. Also, try using them while holding Ctrl, Shift, or both.

Now drag the eyes so that you may give sight to the currently blind Ms. Orange. Resize if necessary. How big you want to make the eyes is entirely up to you.

Assuming you’ve been reading all the instructions so far, you should be able to make the following on your own by now.

Then stick ‘em in her face the same way you did with her eyes.

You already know everything you need to make the rest of Ms. Orange. Review my tips, follow your instincts, use The Force. These are the last five objects you need, all courtesy of the Curve Tool:

Fix the arrangement of stacking objects that overlap the wrong way by Right-click | Order. Put them all together, Group them and take a good look…

“Congratulations! You have created your first PowerPoint Anime Girl!”

Remember the tools you’ve used throughout the program? I dare you to name ONE that you didn’t underestimate before going through this tutorial…

See, that’s the best part about drawing in PowerPoint. Virtually everyone has used it, therefore they assume that something like this can’t be done by just pure PowerPoint.

Ah, but you my friend, have just stepped into the realm of a different level of PowerPoint art!

I’ll leave you to figure that out on your own for now…

“It’s got the Power. You just need to Point it in the right direction.”

Have a nice day!

There is still much to learn at this point. There are different styles and techniques that PowerPoint can imitate. It often just depends on how creative you are with the simple tools it offers.

Take Saffron here for example. What would you say if I told you I only added ONE other tool to the tools mentioned in this tutorial to make her?

What would you say if I told you that tool was THIS?

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