How to Create a Quirky Twitter Bird in Corel Draw
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Learn here how to create a this bird using a few techniques in Corel Draw. Successful completion of this tutorial requires an intermediate knowledge of Corel Draw. We think it’s easy as there is no need for Art school sketches that are usually needed in the first step. Let’s get started!
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Step 1
Create new document, whatever size. A4 is fine. Draw the shape of the bird’s body using the Free Hand Tool and make it nice with the Shape Tool. This part requires a bit of creativity 
Step 2
Color the shape blue. Then Copy the shape and paste in the same place. Now using the Up Arrow key, move the second shape 4 pixels up. And then change the color of the second shape to a lighter blue. For better a effect use the Radial Gradient Fill Tool with a lighter to darker blue. Still the first shape should be darker to get that dark line at the bottom.
Step 3
Copy the shape and place it in the white area. Copy it again and paste it. Then make it a bit larger and put it over the smaller one (green on pink example). Using the Back Minus Front option Cut the shape off. Then change it to blue (or use the gradient that we did in last step). And place it on our main shape.
Step 4
Do the same again but cut a smaller, thiner part. Those steps are needed to add some light effects, which make it more 3D.
Step 5
This step uses only one simple option: Intersect (marked by red box, shown below). Just as in the steps above, select two object and Intersect. You will get the shape that both object share.
This technique is an easy way to get shapes that you want in many other situations. In the picture below, notice that we used circles on the main shape, then the eye, then the eyeball, etc. Be sure to apply a radial fill to the eye as shown above.
Step 6
Do the same thing again. This time create the bottom part of the bird (that’s the way birds are built, a white patch makes the bird look more real).
Step 7
Coming back to using the Back Minus Front option. Cut off the shape of the first eyelash. Than copy, paste, resize, and rotate to put them together. Now copy the whole thing and paste in place, change to a darker blue, rotate a bit, and move it to the back. Lastly, group it and place it on the bird.
Step 8
To draw the legs and nose you need to use the Free Hand Tool and make it nice with the Shape Tool. In this step, we want to show you how using the same color, but in different brightness, adds more depth and dimensionality.
Step 9
This must be the easiest step because you do do not have to be exact. Just draw away and create some jagged shapes for the eye. The more uneven the better.
Step 10
Now let’s make the wings. In the image below, you can see again how we cut the shape out of the circle using different circles. Then we rounded the corners a bit using the Shape Tool. Also, we added some light effect, just like in Step 4.
Place the wing on the bird. Also, Copy and Paste In Place the same wing, but change color to gray, move to the back, and move to the left a bit. That gives the effect of the second wing on the other side of the bird (you can see tiny gray part near the legs).
Step 11
We’re almost done. The hat is a simple thing drawn using the Freehand Tool to create the shapes shown below. They each were given different brightness, fills, and a radial gradients was placed on the white stripe to add 3D.
Conclusion
Place the hat on the bird. Add a dark blue ellipse under the hat (some kind of shadow of the hat). And our Quirky looking twitter bird in vectors is done!
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I’m sorry.. but.. low standards. very disappointed w/ this tutorial
yep me 2… thought u put up some more premium tuts…this stuff is pretty good for beginners…even they could do this after a day…
and corel draw is a nogo in the designscene lol…
but anyway… u are on psdtuts. so u made something right. right?
lu all
who uses corel draw?
i agree with this ine. but friend many places even in some designing compnaies they use Cdr and mainly for printing
My first graphic design jobs (a screen printing company then a trophy/plaque shop) only used Corel Draw when all I knew was the Adobe Suite. It doesn’t hurt to make yourself familiar with different graphics programs… you never know when you’ll have to use them!
Erm… I like the final outcome..
But, the process is not that fun!!!
Guess, you need to get a simpler steps to achieve this.
Seems to be a twitter bird kinda day.
Not as good as the twitter bird tut on psdtuts, sorry. :/
I’m sorry.. but.. low standards. very disappointed w/ this tutorial
Are we sure that the intended description of this twitter bird was Quirky and not something else? Poor call on Vector-tuts to post this.
The black part of the eye, doesn’t line with the outline of the eye. There is space between. However funny looking bird
working with yourself using Illustrator is very nice and competitive against all people, but some places work only with corel draw, here im my city i don´t know any place who work with illustrator to print, and a lot of design studios and publicity agencies, must work with corel, so if you want to be good in design or creation in publicity you must know how to use, illustrator and corel draw.
nice tut i liked a lot, its nice to see some corel draw work
i agree, some companies only use corel draw
besides it’s not the software that count but the skill of the designer
Um… Corel Draw?!
regardless of the program, i’m just bothered that someone was actually PAID for this “tutorial”. The illustration is horrible and the tutorial is more or less a “i draw this, then i draw this”
GAH!
i love this tutorial it’s helap 4 everyone who need some lesson to use Cdr.
even it’s 4 a beginners, including me… guy’s u dont be arrogant 4 some thing easyer.
REDmillion Thank’s to you !!
not a bad tut, a tut for beginners, this is a very good lesson in object manipulation theory.
cool, now I want to try to make vector in CorelDraw
Even though some of the steps required to do this illustration were not explained in detail (which makes it almost impossible for someone with little or no knowledge of coreldraw to follow), I feel that I actually learned quite a bit in this tutorial and find it quite nice. So don’t be discouraged by the comments of some party poopers, who do nothing but throw crap at other people’s work but dont have the balls to do something constructive (like what they think a tutorial should be – if they can even make one), and keep up the good work.
Cheers!