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TRACE MARIE CAT'S HEAD

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Foreword Disney has numerous famous characters. And one of cutest disney character in my opinion is Marie Cat, from the “Aristocats” movie. In this tutorial, I'll try to show you how to do manual trace to the Marie Cat's low resolution picture source with powerful inkscape's live path effect feature. For those who are cartoonist wannabe, check this tutorial out! Main Idea The idea behind this tutorial is to trace Marie Cat's low resolution picture with bezier path in every single line we've found. Then give all the bezier paths the powerful inkscape's live path effect until match what we need. Read the rest of this post if you so curious :) Step 1 Get this marie cat's low resolution picture below first. Then import (ctrl+i) to your inkscape working area.  Step 2 Then make an ellipse, color it green, then do butterfly technique to make our “brush” in future step. Do not know what is butterfly technique yet? Check this post . Step 3 Then begin manual tra