My Cornucopia

Our assignment was to create a cornucopia using "Adobe Fireworks CS3". We had to use all of the things we learned to make fall fruit and vegetables.

Background

1. Make dimensions 1000x1000 pixels.
2. Make the  canvas color darkish orange.
3. Draw a shaped polygon as a star with 7 points, make it a solid dark yellow, and make the texture "swish" at 50% as a transparent.
4. Click on the star and press "Ctrl-Alt" and drag  the star to make a copy.
5. Continue to do this. Drag the stars into lines across the canvas.
6. Select the text box and write "By: 'your name here'"
7. Label the layer and lock it.

Cornucopia

1. Add a new layer.
2. Draw a circle and make it a dark orange-yellow. Give it a gradient of radical with orange in the middle to orange-yellow on the edges. Make the border orange crayon.
3. Take the paint brush and make it whatever size you are comfortable with. Have the color be the orange-yellow
4. Draw the end of the cornucopia.
5. Where ever you mess up use the eraser to fix it.
6. Use the pencil to draw lines around your drawing.
7. Add a drop shadow.
8. Lock your layer.

Carrots

1. Add a new layer.
2. Draw an oval and make it orange.
3. Click on the white arrow near the top of the screen and move the points on the oval to make a carrot shape.
4. Click Outer bevel, size three color orange.
5. Draw a 16 point, green, polygon star and stretch it out so one side is long a pointy and the other is short and stubby.
6. Layer the star underneath the carrot so it looks like leaves.
7. Group the two together.
8. Make duplicates of the carrot by clicking on it and  pressing Ctrl-Alt and dragging it.
9. Make three copies and move the in front of the basket.
10. Lock the layer.

Pear

1. Add a new layer.
2. Draw a green circle with a swirl texture (15%).
3. Draw a green oval with same texture, rotate the oval to place under circle.
4. Adjust circle and oval to look like a pear.
5. Group them together.
6. Add a out bevel, size 3, green.
7. Take the paint tool and draw a brown stem.
8. Group the stem and pear together.
9. Move the pear to the side a little if front of the carrots.
10. Lock your layer.

Corn

1. Add a new layer.
2. Draw a yellow oval with checkered texture.
3. Draw several small green ovals with swirl texture.
4. Adjust the ovals so they look like the corn stalk leaves.
5. Group all items together.
6. Make 2 more copies of the corn in a line and group them together.
7. Add outer bevel, green, size three to the corn.
8. Lock your layer.

Tomato

1. Add a new layer.
2. Draw a red circle with the eclipse gradient, turning darker red.
3. Use the white arrow to make the circle a tomato shape.
4. Use outer bevel, size 3, red.
5. Draw a green star.
6. Make the star small and move it to look like tomato leaves.
7. Group the shapes together.
8. Move the tomato in front of the corn.
9. Lock your layer.

Pepper

1. Add a new layer.
2. Draw three small, yellow, ovals approximately the same size.
3. Group them together side-by-side to look like a pepper.
4. Draw a small green rectangle.
5. Move it on the pepper like a stem.
6. Group them together.
7. Add a outer bevel, size 2, green.
8. Make 2 more copies of the peppers.
9. Move two of the peppers to in front of the tomato to the left a little.
10. Move the final pepper in front of the corn to the right.
11. Lock the layer.

Grapes

1. Add a new layer.
2. Draw a small purple circle.(Add gradient eclipse start dark purple.)
3. Add an outer bevel, size three, purple.
4. Make as many copies of  grapes as you want.
5. Group the grapes together to make a group of grapes.
6. Draw a green spiral.
7. Add the spiral to the edge of the grapes and group them together.
8. Move the grapes in front of the corn and a little if front of the two peppers.
9. Lock the layer.

Pumpkin

1. Add a new layer.
2. Draw a plump, orange, large oval.
3. Add the eclipse gradient to it fading to a light orange in the middle.
4. Draw lines vertically across the pumpkin.
5. Select brown paint and draw a stem.
6. Group the stem and pumpkin together.
7. Move the pumpkin if front of the corn slightly to the right.
8. Lock the layer.

Apples

1. Add a new layer.
2. Draw two red ovals next to each other.
3. Group them together and make two copies.
4. Make one of the copies smaller and green.
5. Make all the apples have outer bevel, size 3, green if green apple, red if red apples.
6. Select brown lines and add stems to all the apples.
7. Group the stems to the apples.
8. Group the apples together with the red apples in back and green apple in front.
9. Move them in front of the grapes.
10. Lock the layer.

Broccoli

1. Add a new layer.
2. Draw a green, textured rectangle.
3. Draw two more little rectangles and have them stick out the sides of the main rectangle.
4. Draw a darker green oval and place it over the rectangle.
5. Draw small ovals and connect them to the small rectangles.
6. Group them all together.
7. Place the broccoli in front of the apples and pumpkin.
8. Lock the layer.

Nuts

1. Add a  new layer.
2. Draw a small light brown circle.
3. Use the white arrow to make it look like a nut.
4. Draw another, darker circle on the light brown circle.
5. Draw two small lighter brown circles on the darker circle.
6. Group them all together.
7. Make two more nuts.
8. Group all three together in front of the pumpkin and broccoli.
9. Lock the layer.

Thank you  :)