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© 2000 by Gary Priester. All Rights Reserved.
Step 1. Select the deer symbol from the Geographic Symbols library in the Symbols roll-up/docker and drag it onto the page. Create a rectangle about 1/4 inch larger all around than the deer symbol.
By the way, deer is a misnomer. If you saw the way these four-legged vultures have decimated my garden… but don't get me started! In CorelDRAW 9 you can individually round the corners as I have done-75% top left and bottom right.
Step 2. Make four evenly spaced duplicates at a 45 degree angle. Here's a cool way to do this. Set your Nudge amount to 1 point (in DRAW 9 you can set this amount on the Property Bar when there is nothing selected). Press the + key to create a duplicate. Using the nudge keys (the arrow keys) move the duplicate up one click, and left one click. Now press Ctrl D three times. This repeats the duplicate, nudge up, and nudge left operations, all with one key stroke combination. Apply a pale yellow fill to the deer and a red outline to help distinguish one deer from the other. Apply a medium brown fill to the background.
Step 3. Select the third deer (the one in the middle) and bring it to the front (Arrange > Order > To Front).
Step 4. Select the deer closest to the top of the rectangle, and the rectangle, and send both to the back (Arrange | Order | To Back). Remember to send both the deer and the background to the back, otherwise you'll be missing a deer. (Of course one less deer would not bother me all that much!)
Step 5. You should now have a foreground deer, in the center, and two deer outlines top and bottom. Apply a dark brown fill to the deer closest to the top of the page, and the second from the bottom of the page as shown.
Step 6. Apply a light brown fill to the second deer from the top and the deer closest to the bottom. I know this is confusing, but from top to bottom, here's what you should have: dark brown (shadow), light brown (highlight), center deer, dark brown (shadow), and light brown (highlight).
Step 7. Change the color of the middle deer (the entire beast) to the same color as the background. Set the outline for all the objects to none. I've also changed the background color and the deer color to more of a reddish brown.
DRAW Specific feature. I applied a Birdseye Maple bitmap fill (Fill Tool flyout | Pattern Fills | Bitmaps) to both the deer and the background rectangle. I cut the central deer to the clipboard (Edit | Cut). I selected the remaining four deer and converted them to bitmap, with the Transparent Background option. I applied a small amount of Gaussian Blur (Bitmaps | Blur | Gaussian Blur) just to soften the edges. The original deer was wasted, sorry I meant pasted on top. I filled the central deer white and pasted another copy on top, to which I applied a small amount of Uniform, Normal Transparency, 10%. This was just to make the central deer a touch lighter and enhance the appearance of it be being braised, I mean raised.
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