Incorporate visual aids into your educational materials with ease! Learning Clipart can significantly enhance engagement and understanding for students of all ages. This tutorial will guide you through a simple tracing technique to create your own learning clipart, even if you’re a complete beginner. We’ll use a microphone as our example to demonstrate how easy it is to turn everyday objects into valuable visual resources for learning.
Let’s start by bringing a photograph of the object you want to draw into your digital drawing app. For this demonstration, we’ll use a microphone. Import the photo as a Photo Layer. To make tracing easier, reduce the opacity of the photo layer, making it mostly transparent. This allows your drawn lines to stand out clearly against the underlying image.
Next, switch to a Draw Layer. Using a black color, carefully outline the microphone directly over the transparent photo. Focus on capturing the essential shapes and contours of the object. This traced outline will form the basis of your learning clipart.
To create clean, straight lines, especially for objects with geometric elements like our microphone, utilize the Shapes feature available in many drawing applications. Adobe Draw, for example, offers stencils like the Line stencil. Select the Line stencil, and then use two fingers to precisely position it where you need a straight line. Draw along the stencil’s edge to achieve a perfectly straight line in your learning clipart.
Once you’ve completed the tracing process, increase the opacity of the Photo layer back to fully opaque. This will allow you to clearly see how your tracing accurately captures the form of the original microphone photograph, ready to be transformed into vibrant learning clipart.
Now, let’s add color to our learning clipart microphone! To achieve color accuracy, especially when aiming to replicate colors from your reference photo, utilize the Color Picker tool. In Adobe Draw (and many other drawing apps), a long press on the Color selector often activates the Color Picker. Drag the picker directly onto the photo to select the exact shade of purple (or any color you desire) from the microphone image. This precise shade will then become your selected color for drawing. Some applications may feature a dedicated Eyedropper tool for the same purpose of color selection.
Choose a color for the handle of the microphone. After selecting your desired color, use the bucket fill tool (or a similar fill function) to quickly and easily color in the handle area of your learning clipart microphone.
Many objects, like our microphone, have parts with varying shades and tones. To create visual depth in your learning clipart, explore the Color Picker’s shade adjustment features. In Adobe Draw, clicking the Color selector and then choosing “Picker” often reveals a slider. Adjust this slider to select lighter or darker shades of your base color. Use these varied shades with the bucket fill tool to color different sections of your microphone, adding dimension and visual interest to your learning clipart.
With the coloring complete, your learning clipart illustration is ready! You can now save or copy your newly created microphone clipart. For maximum flexibility, consider copying the image. This allows you to easily paste your learning clipart into other applications like Keynote, Google Slides, or Book Creator. In these platforms, you can seamlessly combine your illustrations with text, additional photos, and other elements to create engaging and informative educational resources using your own learning clipart.
