Try it yourself

Now that we have a good grip on how to draw and make different custom shapes, let’s get into some practice. Having read through this chapter, you’ll probably recognize some of the shapes in Figure 5.30 that compose this nice little plant graphic we’re going to build:

Figure 5.30 – An attractive potted plant and the parts that make it

Yes, you guessed it – we’re going to use spiro curves with Shape set to Triangle in to make those attractive floral-flourish curling leaves. We’ll also start with some base shapes as we did at the beginning of the chapter to save us some work, and we’ll make some grass and petal details from scratch using our Bezier Curve tool:

1. Let’s begin at the bottom with our pot. It’s made mostly of rectangles, so using the Rectangle tool, we’ll draw one rectangle to represent the base, then copy and resize it to make the various parts...