Lesson video

Hi, my name is Jordan Bickel.

And this is Lesson 2 of six a vector drawings.

In this lesson, you're going to learn how to combine shapes to make your very own vector drawing.

You're going to need permission from a parent or carer to use their Google accounts to access Google drawings.

Now find a quiet place with limited distractions where you can get your best work done.

Pause the video here until you're ready to continue, then press Play.

In this lesson, your going to create a vector drawing by combining shapes.

First, we need to identify the shapes used to make the vector drawing.

Then we're going to explain each element added to a vector drawing as an object.

And then finally, we're going to move, resize and rotate an object that you've duplicated Counting shapes.

To get started to making bigger and better vector drawings, you first need to look for what shapes can you identify in vector drawing and how many shapes can you see? Let's look at the owl example below.

Pause the video here and have a quick look to identify the shapes that you see in the picture and see if you could begin to count how many different shapes make up this vector drawing.

Press play when you're ready to continue.

Below you can see the shapes that were used to make the vector drawing the owl.

You can see the owl was mostly made up of circles or ovals and filled in with different colours.

We can see there's actually quite a few shapes that were used.

There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14.

14 shapes that actually made that one image of the owl.

Here you can see the completed vector drawing of the owl alongside the shapes that were used to make this drawing.

Now we can begin to think about which order these shapes for us to create the final vector drawing.

Looking at the finished vector drawing of the owl, you can see on the bottom are mostly the brown shapes, followed by the circles put in a certain order to make the eyes.

We're going to learn more about layering objects in a future lesson.

Task one, making more.

In this task, we're going to log into Google drawings and then we're going to see how we can make more circles or rectangles without having to use the draw shapes.

This means that you'll have an exact duplicate of the shape that you began with.

Google drawings demonstration, making more.

Here, I'm going to show you three different ways that you can make more.

To begin, I'm going to first start by creating a circle and a square by using the shape tool.

First, I'll start with this circle, doesn't need to be too large.

And then I'm going to go back and I'll select a square.

There we go.

So the first way that I'll teach you how to make more is we're going to duplicate the circle by selecting it.

And I'm going to go up to the Edit menu and when I click Edit, a list of options will appear.

And now I'm going to press Copy.

And then where I want my copy to be made, or my duplicate of the circle, I'm going to click off of the circle so it's not selected anymore.

And I'll go back to Edit and now I'll select Paste.

And here you can see I've made a duplicate of the circle.

So it's the exact same size.

Now the second way I'll show you to create duplicate is we'll use the square.

And I'm going to use my mouse here and I right click and the menu also appear here.

And again, I have those same options to Copy, and then I'll right click off of the square, and then I have the option to Paste.

And now I have a duplicate of my square.

And the third option is using a keyboard shortcut.

So each time that I've used the copy and paste feature so far, there's been a little reminder of what that keyboard shortcut is.

So here, if I right click again, you can see next to copy, it reminds me that the shortcut for this is Ctrl and C pressed at the same time.

And then to paste that, the shortcut on the keyboard would be Ctrl and V at the same time.

So if I select the circle this time, and on my keyboard now I'm pressing the button Control and C and then I'm going to click off of the circle and I'll press Control+ V.

And then you can see a duplicate of that circle has been made.

And so there are three different ways that you can make more of the same shape.

And so now I've created a duplicate of my circle and my square.

Now that we've learned how to duplicate shapes by using copy and paste, your task is going to be creating a vector drawing using only a circle and a square.

Task one, making more.

So here are a few ideas to get you started.

Here's a pig it's made using mostly resized circles.

Here's a castle using squares.

You've got other off track with a combination of circles and squares, and then also robot that has a mixture of both.

On Google drawings, create your own drawing using only the square and circle shape tools.

Pause the video here to complete your task.

Press play when you're ready to continue.

Here's an example solution of something I created on Google drawings using only the circle or square tool.

So here you can see I've started by taking a few circles, I bet you can guess what I've drawn, eyes, and nose.

So using only circles, I've been able to create a vector drawing of a pig.

Spot the difference.

Briefly pause the video here and see if you can spot the difference.

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That's right.

All the shapes below are triangles.

However, they've all been rotated around to look different, although they haven't changed size or shape.

Rotate is another tool we'll be learning about in today's lesson.

When you select a shape on Google drawings, a blue circle appears at the top.

When you click on this, you're able to rotate the object around.

Undo is another tool that we'll be looking at.

In the picture to my left, you can see an example of the toolbar on Google drawings.

Here, you can see that there's the option to undo.

It's the arrow pointing to the left.

Or you can use the keyboard shortcut where you select the buttons Control and Z at the same time.

Google drawings demonstration, rotating shapes.

Here's how to rotate a shape on Google drawings.

I might just delete this circle to begin with to give myself more space, and then I'm going to select the shape that I would like to rotate.

So here I'll start with my square, and I'm going to click on the square, and I'll know it's selected because it's outlined in blue.

And then here you can see the circle at the top is my rotate tool.

So when I click on that circle and then move around, you can see it even gives me such precise rotating to include the degrees.

I don't need to be that precise right now.

But once I'm happy with the rotation of the shape, I'll let go of my mouse.

And then you can see now I have a square that's just tilted slightly to the side.

I could make this into more of a rectangle shape.

And then I might choose to rotate this one all the way so it's up right.

Now if I want this to be perfectly straight and upright, I can use my math knowledge and I'll know that I needed to rotate that shape 90 degrees.

And now you can see I have my rectangle is straight up and down.

And now again, using that maths knowledge, if I select my circle, I'm going to be able to rotate it at all if it's a perfect circle? No, so you can see the image has not actually changed at all.

If I select this circle here though, I can drag it and create my oval.

So then I'll be able to see the rotation that I'm doing a bit better.

And then clicking that same blue circle, I'm able to rotate my oval onto any angle that I'd like.

Now, if you're ever unhappy with any of the changes, you've made either rotating or resizing, remember, you always can use the undo button to undo what you've just done.

So if I want to do that, I can select this button here, the arrow pointing backwards to the left, or it's reminding me of a shortcut here, I can on my keyboard, press the buttons Control+ Z.

So right now just click the arrow here.

I'm already there.

You can see it moves the shapes back.

Then also you have the choice to redo the last thing that has been done.

So I can click that button there, or I can use, I'm pressing on my keyboard right now the buttons Control+ Y and that's move the shape back to where it was before I had undone that action.

Let's take a look now at a couple examples of how the rotate tool can be used to create vector drawings.

Look at the example of the sheet below.

Can you spot where the Rotate tool is being used? Pause the video while you have a look.

That's right, there's a number of shapes in the sheet below that have been rotated to create the vector drawing.

First, you can see there's an oval shape here.

And the head is also made of an oval shape.

And here the oval has been rotated slightly to the left, and on the side, it's been rotated slightly to the right.

You can also see that this shape here, the semicircle and the shape there in the tool menu that comes down in Google drawings.

And you can see this has been used a number of times and then rotated to make the outline of the shape.

You can also see in the legs here, the oval shape has been used again and then rotated to create the image of the legs.

In the second example, you can see shapes have been rotated and resized to create a vector drawing of a lion.

Pause the video here and see if you can spot where the rotate tool has been used.

In this vector drawing, you can see circles have been used quite a lot to create the overall effect.

And the head of the lion, you can see that the circles have been resized and recolored to create part of the head, the main and the ears.

They've also been made smaller to create the nose and whisker marks.

The semicircle tool here has been used to create the mouth.

And then also the semi circle tool has been rotated here to help create the tail.

Again, looking at the body here, you can see we have an oval that's been rotated onto its side, and that creates the main part of the lion.

In this task, you're going to apply all the skills you've learned in Google drawings so far.

Don't forget to use all the tools we've learned about in previous lessons.

We're going to be focusing particularly on rotating shapes to create the vector drawings.

I have three examples for you below and in this task, you're going to choose one and recreate it.

Pause the video here to complete your task, press Play when you're ready to continue.

Task two, using your skills, here's an example solution on how I recreated the vector drawing of the lion.

I started by making an oval shape for its body.

And then I took a closer look at its legs and saw that they were actually rectangles that have been rotated to appear vertical.

And also change the colours to match the drawing.

I then was able to add the feet again matching the colours with the drawing.

Next I lifted the head which was a large circle in the very back layer that created the main and then I was able to use the copy and paste to add a second circle on top of it and change the colour.

Then I looked at the ears because they matched the same colour as the face.

So I used copy and paste to create two more smaller circles.

And then added again with copy and paste, made smaller circles and change the colour for the inside of the ear.

And then of course, the cute little fluff bit of further in the middle, which was a circle with the matching colours of the main.

Then I had a closer look at the mouth part of the lion's face and it started with a light coloured oval that was vertical.

And then there was a second smaller oval and a darker colour matching the main but this one had been rotated on to its side.

And then I could see the whiskers were made up of six very very small circles.

And finally the mouth had two semi circles to give the effects of the lion's mouth and finally two black ovals to create the eyes.

And last but not least was the tail using a semicircle and an oval for the fluff at the top.

You've reached the end of Lesson 2.

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