More Runners Drawings.

I've made a few more runners, this time in colour and featuring both a man and a woman. All drawings are a combination of lines drawn with the Pages Draw tool (or Pen).

The brown colour is Cayenne and the grey is Steel from Crayons in Colour Viewer. The blonde woman's hair is a slightly modified Banana, and the dark haired woman's hair is Licorice.

The colour of the shadow in some drawings is a real human skin colour I picked off a photograph. The background rectangle is also coloured with varying shades of human skin off a photo (Graphic Inspector > Advance Gradient Fill > Radial Gradient Fill.)

All designs ©Alexander Anichkin. Contact the editor if you'd like to commission one like this.

 

The Runner. How to draw a logo.

I took part in the May Day 10 km road race in Avranches, Normandy. While pottering about at the start line I noted club logos on runners' vests. After coming back home I've made my own. Here it is.

It's made of four curving lines. To draw a line in Pages, choose the Draw tool from the Shapes menu (or Insert > Shape > Draw with Pen). Click two or three times and double-click on the last dot to create a draft line. Then make it editable: Format > Shape > Make Editable, and then give it smooth curves: Format > Shape > Smooth Path.

Move the red dots - editing points - to give the lines desired shape. Each editing point when selected shows curving handles. Click and drag to change the curves of the line.

At some point choose a style for your lines and give them colour. It could be right when you begin your design or at some point later. A choice of styles is in Graphic Inspector under Line. Click on the drop-down menu and see which of the styles suits your design best.

 The picture below shows one of the lines being edited.