Emil Jaranilla

Requirements:

. Adobe Fireworks CS3 / Macromedia Fireworks 8. (Any Version will work)
. Basic Knowledge in Vector Graphics and in using the authoring tool.

Hi! Did you experience creating your own character using Vector Graphics?
Or do you have multimedia, or animation subject? Maybe this tutorial can
help you creating your smiley, or cartoon character in a basic and easy
way using Fireworks (Any Version)

Final Output:
Now let’s start creating your vector smiley.
1.) First you need to create an ellipse shape from tool’s panel, vector section. And set the border color and size. Now, under the properties inspector, on fill categories, choose gradient > linear, then the color must be #000000 to #666666 and try to make its color like on the illustration. The color depends on your wants but since this is basic color shading, I used #666666, #333333, #000000 and #ffffff.
2.) Create other ellipse shape and set the border to invisible or opacity = 0 Set the color to gradient > Linear > color must be #666666 and the other side set as #ffffff and set the opacity = 0.This will be create a shine effect on your smiley.

3.) Start Creating your eyes, mouth, and eyebrow. Noted that, be careful in creating the eye because all of the emotions of your smiley will reflect in the eyes.


4.) Now if you’re done, combined the layers / object that you created and see the output
if it looks nice or not.



This Basic Tutorial and All the Vector Graphics used in this page was composed and developed by Emil Jaranilla.
You can post this tutorial in your own site but please include credits and always link back to this page.
Thank you for reading this basic tutorial, more tutorials on different topics will be post.