In this lesson we will create something which is in a lot of small, 2d games. And it's a cartoon boom we all know this from all the Bugs Bunny and other cartoons is basically a sphere and onto it there is a string which is sparkling threatening to blow up. So how are we going to create it in Inkscape is now is that we will use all the tools we learned so far. Let's get into this. And first create a sphere and I'm drawing an escape I don't care first about the colors I will recolor them later or just use whatever is comfortable at the moment so I don't use crazy pink or purple. I like green.

For you. It's up to you. I know I want to create the base of the bomb. Then it usually has a little metal cylinder which I will create From a rectangle, which I transform with path, object to path, so I can modify and make it curvy on the top, because usually it's like a cylinder can make it lower a bit. Same on the bottom. So now I have the basic shape, I can call it now into dark gray or black.

If I wanted to make like, boom, I can use a gradient So it's already looks a bit more spherical, and I can also use a gradient on the object itself to black from gray and some more shine. I can put some highlights on it. So now it looks like a black Christmas ornament, but it's mostly what it is. If I do this for maybe even better And then I just can go with Shift Ctrl F i call the Fill and Stroke window, I can blur these nice here, I can create an ellipse on the top. The color of the ellipse is like the lighter of these gray. This one can have a gradient to a linear one because if this is a cylinder, the light is coming from this direction.

Then this is also lighter and I can use the same gradient as I did here. So, this part is dark this part is light. See, have the basic shape now. No I can use the Bezier tool have a stroke and have no field shape the stroke and I make it bigger and the end I can make like this you see you can give a different cap different ending to the stroke so it can be cut off or it can be rounded, rounded is perfect for now. And then the stroke pain to change from black to something. What is a brownish rope color I can get it from here the button by not by normally but by shift click or I can go out here and get one I think this one is good enough.

Maybe this is a bit too long. Okay, now we are talking and I want to have the sparkles on the top so it's on fire. The easiest way is to make a star. And like this, it would be like oh my god, the magical bomb. Okay, that would be a nice name for a game. That's my name don't steal.

Okay, I'm just kidding. So if this is a bomb, I don't want to be this perfect star by one sparkles. So I can path object to path. So I create a path of the star. And then I can modify them by by hand node by node to make it a random, more random sparkle Ping. And this one, I can also turn a stroke into path and I will show you why.

You see now it's nicely turned around here. Apart it's not a stroke anymore It is no stroke. So it turned into an object. I can push Ctrl L. You see it's l Ctrl. l is simplifying the path. This one is still not needed what what I don't need I just deleted like with the object.

I can make a different bottom port so it looks like it's a bit thinner on the top and thicker on the bottom. And then I can give this a linear gradient to from brighter on the top to darker on the bottom lines And just for the fun of it, I can give it a blue like it has the light on it. So now I select all of it and I group it. Here I have a little cotton ball stand like this so make a lot of bombs So we are a little bomb you can use in a game. And we were trying everything what we learned so far. So it was coloring gradient, creating simple shapes, creating a path from simple shape and modifying the path.

And we were using some blur. And we were using a group to group up our objects at the end. And don't forget that these object is easy to modify. So if you want to create different little sparkle you can if you want to modify the shape of the string, you can, it's very easy to modify and does the whole point of escape. So have fun, follow this tutorial again, if you need Create your own bomb, or whatever game was that you need in the next few levels if you move on to text and graphical user interface, so basically creating the buttons and other surroundings for our game. And after that we will move on to the more complex stuff, creating platform characters, backgrounds, etc.

So everything what we need to create a neat little game