Creating Buildings and Getting Familiar with Layers

Draw the Buildings

• Choose the Line tool, making sure your line thickness is still set to 3. FYI: Holding down the Shift key will create a straight line.
• Move to the Stage and draw buildings as shown in the illustration.

Add Color to the Buildings

Fill the first building with color:

• Choose the Paint Brush tool.
• Click on the Fill color box and choose tan as the fill color.
• Click in the first building and begin adding the fill just as you did to the car in the previous exercise. Remember to change the brush size, shape, and mode to get an accurate fill. To zoom in for a better view, click the zoom tool on the tools panel.

Fill the next building with color:

• Click the Fill color box and choose green as the fill color.
• Click in the second building to fill the building with color.

Fill the last building with color:

• Click the Fill color box and choose pink as the fill color.
• Click in the last building to fill the building with color.

Fill the doors with color:

• Click the Fill color box and choose brown as the fill color.
• Click in each of the doors of the building to fill the doors with color.

Fill the windows with color:

• Click the Fill color box and choose yellow as the fill color.
• Click in each of windows of the building to fill the windows with color.

Layers

Think of a layer as a transparent sheet on which you paint. You can see through each layer to the layers under it until you add color. You can add layers, delete layers, and change the position of layers. Each layer is independent of all other layers. The layer you are currently working on is called the active layer. You can view layer information on the Timeline.

Renaming a Layer

Change the name of the current layer:

• Double click layer 1 text to rename. It will appear blue.

• Type "Buildings" replacing "Layer 1."