Creating a background

You can finish the drawing by creating a background and frame for the clown. You can draw squares to create the background and then import a border to complete the frame.

To draw the background

1. Using the Rectangle tool, hold down CTRL, and draw a square around the clown.
2. On the color palette, click the powder blue color swatch to fill the square, and right-click the no color swatch to set the outline.
3. Click Arrange menu Order To back.
4. Copy and paste the square.
5. Holding down SHIFT, drag one of the corner sizing handles outwards to make the square larger. Holding down SHIFT draws the square from its center so that all sides expand equally.
6. On the color palette, click the deep river color swatch to fill the square, and right-click the no color swatch to set the outline.
7. Click Arrange menu Order To back.

Click here to see what the drawing should look like.

To create the border

1. Click File menu Import.
2. From the Look in list box, choose the drive and folder where you saved the sample file border.cdr.
3. Double-click the filename.
4. Place the import cursor at the top-left corner of the inner square.
5. Using the sizing handles, resize the border to fit around the inner square. Click here to see an animation of this step.

To finish the drawing

1. Marquee select the entire drawing.
2. On the property bar, click the Group button.
   If you want, you can use the Pick tool to resize the drawing and move it to a different place on the drawing page.

Click here to see what the finished drawing should look like.

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