Corel Draw: Draw a burning candle

In this exercise, we use two main commands: Interactive Blend Tool and Fountain Fill . How to draw as follows:

Step 1 : Draw the candle body

- Select the rectangle tool ( Rectangle Tool ), draw a vertical rectangle with the width equal to 2/3 of the length.

- Select the new rectangle to finish painting.

- Select Object - Convert To Curves .

- Select the node tuning tool ( Shape Tool ).

- Click on the small edge below, on the Shape Tool properties bar, select the Convert Line To Curve box .

- Create a curve for the bottom edge.

- For the upper edge also create curves but make wavy to create uneven burning candles.

- For the long sides of the rectangle, the upper part also creates wavy, like drops of wax flowing down (Figure 1).

- Select Fill Tool - Fountain Tool , in the Fountain Tool dialog box in:

1. Type : select Linear
2. Color Blend : choose Custom (the top and bottom of the Custom palette are red, and the center is white) (Figures 2 and 3).

Figure 2

Figure 3

- Draw a few more drops of wax.

Step 2 : Draw heart candles and flame

- Select the Bezier Tool to draw a wavy line, where you can find candles.

- Draw a small flame shape in red.

- Draw the shape of the fire but larger than the orange color (Figure 4, 5).

- On the toolbar, select the Interactive Blend Tool (you can press the shortcut W).

- Click to select the big orange fire shape and then drag to the small red flame and get the fire burning (Figure 6).

Step 3 : Arrange and draw light from the fire

- Arrange the body, the heart of the candle and the flame, and get the burning candle (Figure 7).

Figure 6

Figure 7

- But to be more like, we have to draw more light areas of the fire.

- Select the circle drawing tool ( Ellipse Tool ), draw two small circles, one big one with the same center.

- Large image with 20% yellow, while small image is white (Figure 8).

- On the toolbar, select the Interactive Blend Tool (you can press the shortcut W).

- Click on the big circle then drag to the small white circle that is emitted by the light from the fire (Figure 9).

- Put in the fire so that it is balanced.

- Select Object - Order - To Back.

- We get the result as shown in Figure 10.

Lam Khe