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Summary: Learn how to fit a square drawing on a circle button when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
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Robyn Lyman Robyn Lyman is a creative artist who has finished thousands of pieces of artwork and owns the company Many Hearts, One Nation, reachable at the link. read more
ROBYN LYMAN: Hey, this is Robyn with Expert Village and Many Hearts. And now we go to the part we're going to make these squares into a circle. This is easy to do. I'll fix my hand right here. It will be the same if you're right-handed. You just hold your hand and twist your wrist. You don't actually pull with your fingers; you just hold your hand, fix it, and let your wrist twist. So now what we're going to do is take this from one point to the next point and just slowly let our hand arch. Now we'll just take each point and arch it from that point to the next point. Now this is kind of a critical stage of the drawing 'cause you want to make sure you hit right on the point and don't go over it or that doesn't make it look like a circle, and you also want to make sure you just barely arch and don't go way up or puts it out of shape. So when you're done and then you've drawn your line straight and this has come out the way it should, you should come pretty close to having the squares look like a circle. Now, the next thing you want to do with this--this is what I call the skeleton of the drawing. You want to make some copies of it, 'cause from here on, you might mess up, and if you messed up, then you have to do it all over again. So always make a copy. And once I'm even finished, I keep a master, I make a copy of the master, and that way, I always got a way to go back and change it if I want to.