CDR is a professional vector graphics drawing software, with natural illustrations, but simple cartoon characters are still at a loss for novice friends who have just come into contact with this software. In fact, it is the use of drawing tools and modeling ability. This example is shared with friends to draw a cartoon character with CDR. In the process of drawing, the order of Bessel tools and objects is used many times, and the tutorial is just a simple coloring.

1. Double-click CorelDRAWX8 to create an A4-sized document. First, use Bessel tool to draw the head of cartoon characters, and then use shape tool to adjust the inaccurate places.

Bessel tool

2, the same steps, draw the cartoon image you conceived. This process is actually the ingenious application of Bessel tool (pen tool). Of course, you can also use similar graphics for tuning adjustment, as long as the effect is achieved. Pen and Bessel have the same function in CDR. Related tutorials can refer to the difference between the pen in CorelDRAW and the Bessel tool.

Bessel tool

3. Fill the closed paths with colors respectively.

Cartoon character

4. Finally, adjust the order of the objects with the help of Ctrl+Home/Ctrl+End, then select all, and press F 12 to adjust the expansion value and angle value in the calligraphy bar at will, so that the outline will change in thickness, as shown in the figure.

Contour pen

CorelDRAW is a universal and powerful vector graphic design software, which combines creativity and function to create its own style.

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Cdr How to draw wavy lines cdr draws wavy lines as follows:

Open the CDR software and create a new document. Let's draw a line. When you finish drawing, click the deformation tool in the left toolbar. Click and select zipper deformation in the deformation tool. After clicking, we move the mouse to the line segment. Hold down the left mouse button to move, and then the line segment becomes a wavy line. You can choose a deformed style in the future.

CorelDRAWGraphicsSuite is a graphic design software of Corel Company in Canada. This software is a vector graphics production tool software produced by Corel Company. This graphic tool provides designers with many functions, such as vector animation, page design, website production, bitmap editing, webpage animation and so on.

This image software is a set of award-winning graphics and image editing software, which includes two drawing applications: one for vector graphics and page design, and the other for image editing. This combination of drawing software brings powerful interactive tools to users. Coreldraw's omni-directional design and web page function can be integrated into the user's existing design scheme, which is full of flexibility.

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Advantages of cdr:

1, simple, intuitive and easy to use.

2. There are many integrated functions. You can do design, typesetting and illustration in one software, but there are some gaps between it and ADOBE's software in all aspects, which is suitable for beginners or low-demand design and publication.

3. The installation program is small, occupying little hard disk space, and it is convenient to download or carry.