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Step 7Use elements that you created before

Use elements that you created before
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Keep a file of all the things that you draw in all your different pictures. This file will be like your very own clip art library. I have been collecting for quite a while now and I have a collection of pens, rulers, craft knives and glue guns for use on any of my drawings, which really saves the time of having to draw them over and over again.

in this case I am using a black marker pen to show that when you are making the model you have to draw round the cap, so that you know what size to cut out the card.

Originally, I drew the pen in exactly the same way as I drew the bottle cap. I drew it vertically as that was much easier to align all the ellipses. Now each time I use it all I have to do is rotate it round and move the highlight to the top of the pen at that angle and I have a pen in my drawing!

Now this step is finished. If you can remember the pencil sketch I did right at the start, you can see that the computer drawing looks quite a lot like I wanted it to.
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Author:KaptinScarlet(dadcando)
Eldest of five, son of two doctors, 10 years in Graphic Design and marketing, then retrained as a Biomedical Materials Engineer, don't ask me why, I think it was because I had always wanted to design ...
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