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Step 3Start to draw (simple is best)
If you are drawing from scratch, it may be helpful to sketch out what you want to do on a bit of paper first. I don't often do that, because I have a picture in my head of what I want to do. Try to stay away from fancy effects that come as standard with your drawing package, because it is obvious when they have been used to hide up bad drawing.
The bottle cap beetle that is the subject of this instructable is made from bottle caps which are just simple drums. That makes drawing them on a computer dead easy.
1: draw an ellipse (remember that the best thing about a computer is that you can reuse elements over and over again, so make sure that you start drawing the part of the thing that you are describing in a way that you can continue to add to it for each subsequent step, rather than having to draw it from a new angle for each step.
2: Clone the ellipse and drag it down parallel. Make the ellipse slightly deeper by enlarging it in the Y axis (up and down) because in real life you will be looking down more on the bottom ellipse than on the top one which is nearer your eyes (nearer the horizon line), because this will make it look more realistic.
The bottle cap beetle that is the subject of this instructable is made from bottle caps which are just simple drums. That makes drawing them on a computer dead easy.
1: draw an ellipse (remember that the best thing about a computer is that you can reuse elements over and over again, so make sure that you start drawing the part of the thing that you are describing in a way that you can continue to add to it for each subsequent step, rather than having to draw it from a new angle for each step.
2: Clone the ellipse and drag it down parallel. Make the ellipse slightly deeper by enlarging it in the Y axis (up and down) because in real life you will be looking down more on the bottom ellipse than on the top one which is nearer your eyes (nearer the horizon line), because this will make it look more realistic.
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And of course you can use google's sketchup for design illustration too http://sketchup.google.com/
And for some paintwork there's gimp http://gimp.org (alos available for windows) or paint.net http://www.getpaint.net/