WEBSITE AND WEBSITE GRAPHICS CREATED WITH XARA DESIGNER 6 PRO For the stems we will use another of Designer’s new features, the Straight Line Tool (last tool in the Drawing Tools fly out menu). Select the Straight Line Tool, click and drag upwards to draw a diagonal line. Change the line Width to 12 pix. Select the Freehand and Brush Tool (N) and apply a Fallout stroke shape. Switch to the Shape Editor Tool (F4) (also on the Drawing Tools fly out) to pull the line into a curve. Edit the curve to give it a slight wave. Change the outline color to Dark Yellow. Clone the line (Ctrl + K). Change the outline color to Medium Dark Yellow. Feather the clone to about 5 pixels. Hold down the Alt key and use the arrow keys on your keyboard to nudge the clone up and to the left a couple of pixels. Select both lines and group them. Set this aside for now. Next we’ll work on the leaves, then we will bring all the pieces together to finish the drawing. To begin the leaf we will draw an ellipse with a 1pixel outline and no fill. this will be a guide shape. Of course if you are talented at drawing you may want to just draw your leaf shape freehand. Convert the ellipse to an editable shape (Arrange  menu). Use the Shape Editor Tool (F4) to pull the ellipse into a rough leaf shape. Select the Freehand and Brush Tool (N). Set the Smoothness slider on the Infobar to about 5-10%. Using the shape we just created as a guide, draw around it in a zig zag to create a serrated leaf shape. Open the Colour Editor (Ctrl + E) and give the leaf  shape a fill of H-73.3  S-59.8%  V-51.8% Clone the shape and give the clone a fill colour of H- 79.3  S-59.8%  V-51.8% Feather the clone about 5 pixels. Using the Freehand and Brush Tool, draw a curved line through the middle of the top leaf shape as shown to the left. Draw some smaller lines coming off the center line to the outer edge. Extend the lines beyond the edge of the leafshape. Select all the lines, duplicate them (Edit > Duplicate) and set them aside. Don’t lose them! Clone the shape and give the clone a fill colour of H- 79.3  S-59.8%  V-51.8% Feather the clone about 5 pixels. Select the center line and the top leaf shape. From the Arrange menu, select Combine Shapes > Slice Shapes  (or press Ctrl + 4) to slice the shape in two. Select one of the halves and one of branching lines and slice again. Continue slicing the branch lines until have your top leaf shape in 8 pieces like my example shown on the left. H    1    2    3    4    5    Download Zipped Tutorial