CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide part 59. Learn to create outstanding fine art and eye-catching commercial graphics with one powerful tool! CorelDRAW X5: The Official Guide is your comprehensive reference and workbook to get you started designing visually captivating CorelDRAW artwork. Learn, step by step, how to create the illustrations you've imagined, quickly assemble layouts for print and package designs, import and edit photos, master the art of typography and the science of color theory, make 3D scenes from 2D objects, and apply special effects to ordinary pictures. Packed with expert techniques and advice for creating professional-quality art, this. | 544 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide 3. You can keep using the current tool the Shape tool click the guy with his hat in his hand. Then choose Effects Copy Effect Perspective From. Click over the guy at left who has perspective as shown here and the second object adopts the perspective of the first. 4. Repeat step 3 for the guy holding the writing pad. 5. Create a graph paper object that fills most of the page and then give it a mediumgray fill and a white outline. Put it to the back of the illustration layer by pressing SHIFT PAGE DOWN. 6. Put the graph paper in perspective to make a ground plane. Next drag the top-left control handle to the right and then drag the top-right control handle to the left until you see a vanishing point just above the graph paper object. Now drag the top and right-top control nodes down until the perspective looks like that shown in the figure. This object will not and should not be in the same perspective as the characters but instead its perspective should be very distorted suggesting a horizon at about the chest level of the characters. 7. Create a second graph paper object fill it with medium gray and give its outline a white property exactly like you did with the first object in step 5. Put it to the back of the drawing SHIFT PAGE DOWN . CHAPTER 18 Working with Perspective 545 8. If you haven t already read Chapter 22 on shadows here are the simple steps to grounding the characters on the graph paper below them click one of the fellows and then choose the Drop Shadow tool from the Effects group of tools on the toolbox. 9. Choose Perspective Top Left from the Presets drop-down on the property bar. With your cursor click-drag to adjust the black control marker for the shadow until it looks correct. 10. Repeat step 9 with the two other commuters select a guy and then choose Effects Copy Effect Drop Shadow From and click the first shadow not the object casting the shadow you defined. You can also add a shadow to the train and the .
