Month: July 2019

Creating a brand-new icon featuring the familiar ‘aqua’ effect is easier than you think – if you have proper tools. To draw an icon from scratch, a professional, lightweight and easy icon editor such as IconLover 5 is all you really need.

For an instance, let us draw an aqua-style icon for “Add”, a glass ball with a “plus” sign inside. To start, you’ll need to draw a circle of a certain color. Select the color you want from the Color properties menu. By the way, you can always save a color by adding it to Custom Colors; this comes very handy if you need to draw a matching set of icons.

Using the Transparency bar or one of the Transparency presets, set your new image’s transparency. For this tutorial, the ball will be fully opaque. In the same way, you can specify background color; for simplicity’s sake, we’ll leave the background transparent for now.

To draw a circle of selected color, select the Filled Ellipse tool by clicking the Filled Ellipse button in the Tools menu, which is on the left of the drawing area. With your left mouse button down, move the mouse cursor within the drawing area to create an ellipse. The ellipse changes its size as you move the mouse. To create an ideal circle, hold Shift while drawing. That’s it, you have just painted a circle!

In order for our flat circle to start looking like a crystal ball, we’ll need to apply some special effects. There are many of them built into IconLover! You can add shadows, gradients, transparency channels, and of course, the renowned ‘glass reflection’ look employed by the aqua effect.

To draw an icon matching Apple’s Aqua style, you’ll need to draw a reflection and a shadow to the circle. This can be managed quite easily by simply selecting Aqua from the Effects menu. Just keep all sliders at their current positions for now, and you’ll get a beautiful shiny sphere as a result.

Now let’s add an artist’s touch and make your icon truly unique. Go back to that Aqua dialog and have a look at the settings. There are multiple settings available to adjust, allowing you to design something never seen before. Go ahead and move the sliders to see how your icon can look!

As a final touch, let’s add some volume to your new icon. While glowing and shiny, it still looks more like a button rather than a crystal ball. Let’s fix that by throwing a drop-down shadow! To add a shadow effect to your icon, click “Drop shadow” from the Effects menu. You can use the defaults, or tweak the values around by getting a flat button, a lens, or a ball. It all depends on the size of the shadow, its distance from the subject, and the angle at which it falls to the surface.

To add the ‘plus’ sign into the image, click on the Text tool icon in the left Tools menu or press “T” to invoke the text properties window. Make sure the “Image transparency” box is selected. This box means that your text will not be transparent, only the area around it will be. Tweaking the “Use semi-transparency” setting gets your text the same level of transparency your primary color has. Type “+”, and you’ll get the ‘plus’ sign embedded into the ball.

That’s it! You’ve just designed a crystal ball that matches the famous Aqua style! All you needed was a professional icon editor, IconLover 5, a few clicks and a few minutes of your time. Easy!

Before you think about composition, focus on your subject, Find an aspect of it that you like. Maybe you like the look of an entire table or just the knotted grain. Whatever your focus, be sure to place that prominently on your paper. And then imagine your 2D object has weight like its 3D counterpart does in reality. And imagine that color and shadow have weight too. White space is weightless.

1.Unbalanced
Compositions can be unbalanced. For example, if you drew a table in the bottom left corner of a piece of paper, its weight would appear to drag that corner down. If you then stuck a pin in the center of this drawing and stuck it to the wall, the table would pull on the paper so much the paper would spin and wind up pointing table down. And then if you spun the paper like a pinwheel, it would wobble.
Unbalanced compositions are used to express good and bad strong feelings. Your table, for example, looks lonely.

2.Balanced
Compositions can be balanced. For example, if you added an equal amount of shading to the top right of your drawing from the previous example, your drawing would appear to even out. You could also add object(s). If you then spun your drawing on a pin like above, it would spin evenly and even wind up level when it stopped spinning.
Balanced compositions are used to express comfortable feelings. Now your table looks more at home.

EXERCISE – Look at a group of objects like leaves on a tree or bricks in a wall, in real life or in a photo. Focus on only a few of the objects that catch your eye, ones that you like. Draw them prominently on your paper in either a balanced or an unbalanced composition. Try following the shading rules described in my “shading” lesson.

You may believe you’re still too young to get up a will but once you set about considering on having a family, one of the several effective ways of looking after them is by being legitimately ready for no matter what future will bring. Some people believe that you’re being morbid if you’re preparing a file designed to take effect the moment you’ve passed on to the after-life, but it’s easier to see this effort as being an act of love or care. Building a legal will early allows you to properly distribute your financial assets and properties in a well-thought-of way that won’t lead to discord among your family members when you’re gone.

A lot of relationships have already struggled due to the absence of a legal will. The law frequently looks over the special dynamics of certain families and creates an uneven advantage to some members. Say, you never really got married however you have already been living alongside your lover beyond most married couples and you believe that everything that you have ever purchased in your life is also his/hers; yet, the law states that it won’t recognise your better half as your lawful heir once you pass away. All your financial assets will instantly be distributed and go to immediate relatives whom you may possibly not have talked to in years in contrast to that person which you really put in yourself with. Additionally, you won’t have an executor that will absolutely set up problems among the people that you have left out – there are actually individual interests which will appear which often cause to the demise of relationships. If you value your loved ones, you surely wouldn’t wish to give them complications.

Creating a legal will early on has a lot of rewards mainly because you’re likely to be of sound mind and body that is the most essential prerequisite – your demands aren’t going to be questioned for credibility. It will likewise be easier to find appropriate witnesses to sign the will with you; two are sufficient but they however should not be any of your recipients. A lawyer is not really needed in creating a legal will, very much like in the films where people take a pen and write things down. But, having your lawyer together with you is very advised as he can make suggestions throughout the legal aspects of the elements of your will.

The moment you’re done, you must send the document for safe-keeping. If you’ve got a safe at home that only you and your lawyer can access, that’s usually sufficient enough though the bank is often a good place for safekeeping as well (along with your money as well as other valuable property documents).

To conclude, whenever you start gathering resources, it’s essential to follow it up by looking into making a legal will. Regardless of whether you do have a family or not, you wouldn’t want just any enterprise to make a decision and distribute your resources when you’re gone. You worked hard for them therefore you really should have legal control over to whom or where they should go.

Mechanical Drawing is known as scale drawing of a machine or architectural plan or the craft of drawing blueprints i.e. drafting. The variety of lines used in preparing a mechanical drawing is large, and each of them has its particular meaning. Boundary lines outline the shape of an object and its parts. Section lines are used to show intersections and the outlines of shapes within the boundary lines. The central axes of an object are represented by the center lines. Break lines are used to indicate that the entire object is not seen in the drawing. These, together with hidden lines and dimension lines, are used most frequently.

Correct design information and projection are the imperatives of a set of engineering drawings. The skill and dexterity shown by some persons in drawing more accurately, more quickly, or more neatly have recognized value in the preparation of such drawings. Equipment has been invented to facilitate the performance of the manual tasks. Most widely known are the T square, triangle and protractor. Bridge building begins long before ground is broken for the supports. The making of a bolt also starts well before the machinist sets an automatic machine to cut the thread into a piece of metal. Actually, for both projects, much planning and work have been completed before effort to undertake construction begins. In building a bridge, months of preliminary work are required before construction workers and tools meet on the job. Students wishing to become skilled drafters must practice certain standard exercises. There are many kinds of exercises that can be performed to increase speed and develop accuracy.

Mechanical drawings are widely used to create artwork for automotive design, architectural plans, engineering drawings, or electrical circuit diagrams. The introduction of the computer and accompanying drawing applications, such as Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw (not to mention cad programs), have rendered skill with pen and pencil almost absolute.

Technical drawing is the discipline of creating standardized technical drawing by architects, CAD drafters, design engineers, and related professionals. Technical drawing includes the various fields and technologies foundation electronics, which has in turn revolutionized the art with new tools in the form of Computer Aided Design (CAD).

A technical drawing or engineering drawing is a type of drawing and form of graphic communication, used in the transforming of an idea into physical form. Technical drawings contain geometric figures and symbols to convey the scope and details of the project. Many professions, such as plumbing, use their own suite of unique symbols. Right angles, parallel lines, curves and symbols constitute the technical drawing. To those on the team, each line or symbol conveys a specific about the project.

Drafters are men and women trained in the art of technical drawing. Another term for a person skilled in creating technical drawings is a draftsman, although modern practitioners prefer the term drafter. It is imperative that technical drawings be accurate. If the drawing is off by even centimeters, the actual work may be off quite a bit too. This leads to terrible consequences and costly delays in construction. This type of drawing is used to fully and clearly define requirements for engineered items, and is usually created in accordance with standardized conventions for layout, nomenclature, interpretation, appearance, size, etc.

The process of creating a technical drawing is called drafting or technical drawing. A technical drawing differs from a common drawing by how it is interpreted. A common drawing can hold many purposes and meanings, while a technical drawing is intended to quickly and clearly communicate all needed specifications of a created object or objects.

Magic or spell casting is an all too important part of paganism. And those with empty pockets and purses and open minds might try out a few pagan Money Drawing Spells in boiling cauldrons to increase the chances of winning a million dollar jackpot. Let me enlighten you with a few more important facts regarding Money Drawing Spell.

You have to understand that it is actually all determined by the elements. According to pagan pantheons, the different elements stand for or control various specific intentions. For e.g. financial growth, money matters, real estate, material wealth and worldly prosperity are governed and influenced by the element earth.

Since it is a Money Drawing Spell you are after, you need to use earthly correspondences in the form of days of the week, colors, stones and herbs in your spell.

Items required in a Money Drawing Spell

You should choose Sunday and Thursday for days of the week.

Orange and green should be your ideal colors.

Some of the herbs you require for your spell are mint, ginger, dill, cedar, almond, patchouli, mugwort and honeysuckle.

Amongst crystals and stones you need onyx, peridot and moss agate, jade, aventurine and amber.

These are directly related to increasing the cash flow in your life. Along with these, you also need to consider the lunar influence. Since it is a Money Drawing Spell you want to perform, it is best to perform it during the phase of a new moon. Money spells have to be performed directly under the moonlight, so that your rites and rituals receive that much needed boost.

You can either chant rhymes written by other people or magicians or you may chant your own creative verse. Simple rhymes often do the trick – “money money in my hand,/double, triple, as fast as you can”.

But the real magic lies in you. The basic purpose of these ritualistic practices is to harness all your positive energy and focus it on what you want the most – in this case, earning money. So focus your energies, put 200% effort into your spells and ensure that your getting money doesn’t put someone else into trouble or harm. Send out positive vibes so as to prevent your Money Drawing Spell from backfiring.

A Money Drawing Spell won’t gift you a billion dollar jackpot or won’t make you win $50 million lottery. But it can certainly ensure or facilitate the receipt of a decent monetary gift or jewelry or real estate from a dead grandpa’s will or you may find a $50 dollar bill lying on the sidewalk.

Or you may get rich dividends from a mutual fund or pension scheme in which you had invested money rather unwisely. This is the most a Money Drawing Spell can do.