Repeat this process to get the desired shading for your fins also. Align and Distribute will be your best friend for keeping your shading shapes aligned. Go ahead and put this shading shape into position. You’ll end up with a nice cutout shape like I have below. With both of those shapes selected, head up to Path > Difference. Next, you’ll want to position one over the other and stretch it out a bit. To create some shading, let’s duplicate the original head object. We’re also going to want to add an addition to the top fin.Īnd, yes, let’s round yet another object.įinally, make it a slightly darker orange and place it behind the first part of the fin. Of course, we’ll need to smooth things out a bit again.Īnd let’s give it that same color orange we started with. To start drawing the top fin, let’s grab the Pen tool and draw a slanted rectangle.

Now you can do some finishing touches by rounding some of the edges. With both the triangle and the fin selected, head up to Path > Difference to make the incision. To start, just draw a triangle over the area we’re going to cut. Now we need to embark on the unfortunate task of chopping up Nemo’s poor little fin. When your fin is perfect, go ahead and give it a slightly darker orange color and set it behind the head.Īnd of course, we need to duplicate this fin, flip it horizontally, and shrink it down a bit. Now we can use the Nodes tool and round out those corners. To start drawing fins, we’re going to use the Pen tool to draw a shape similar to the one below.

While we’re at it, let’s use this same line style to draw a couple eyebrows. To finish it up, let’s put two round lines on each end of the smile. Then we can use the Nodes tool to curve that line into a cute smile.

You can also use Object > Align and Distribute to align everything.įor the mouth, let’s just use the Pen tool and draw a simple line with a 2px Stroke. Once you’ve finished one eye, go ahead and Object > Group, then duplicate it for the second eye. Position them accordingly to get that signature cartoon eye. Continue to draw another black circle, along with another white circle.

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