Hi there! Someone recently asked me to give them some trail art tips. Since then, I wanted to create a tutorial on it! Sit back, and learn how to make some cool trail art.
Tip One
Find your inspiration!
Think about some things that you really like. It could be your favorite animal, color, or shape. The possibilities are endless!
Tip Two
Start Creating!
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Picture what you want your trail art to look like in your head
Find an awesome picture of what you want to recreate
Now for the tutorial
Look for different lines on the image/image in your head, then figure out how to code those. This is a very important part of recreating an image. Here are some methods you could use:
With horizontal lines, I like to use the “change x by” block instead of move forward. I like to use it because it will always return to a horizontal line instead of going with an angle. Here’s an example:
How about you try messing around with the positions, and see what happens!
I would suggest checking out this project as well!
Tip three
Speed it up!
I like to use the “set speed” block to make sure my trail art gets done as quick as possible. It makes lines pass by before you can say “I’ve learned some cool trail art tips!” So go ahead and add set speed at the beginning of your code.
I hope this tutorial helped you learn how to make some pretty cool trail art! Feel free to ask me for some more tips!
Nice job. I don’t usually do trail art, but you can also do circles and ellipses a bit differently. Example: sine and cosine can use horizontal and vertical multipliers to stretch the shape, and if a circle is drawn first, you can use draw width 100 set x y to same, draw width 80 set x y to same for a circle 10px thick.
Also, I recommend linking a few demo projects or samples such as ISNBN’s trail art basics.
Great job! Now it’s time for the shiny part. Remember, we’re doing this whole thing in one object.
This has been very helpful.
