1. Open your IconArt program
  2. Click File choose New Project
  3. Click The Cursor tab
  4. you will see animted cursor then frames ... change the frames to 3
  5. Click the Animated Cursor
  6. Via the menu on the left side you will see the line tool right under the pencil  Click the line tool
  7. Choose your draw color (this color needs to be different than  your mask color.  Your mask color will be the invisible (transparent)color.
  8. Lets draw a crayon or pencil.  Start at the top left corner and draw the led or crayon tip.  Remember you only have one undo...so if you don't like it undo right then.  If you go beyond your undo point and really want to... you can start new.
  9. Here is my crayon tip... before I go any further I am going to add some highlights and shadowing by using lighter and darker shades.
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  11. Now I have an idea I want a fat look for my wrapper.  Remember with the line tool you can click to color a spot or left click hold and drag to make a line.
  12. Now to do some shading on my wrapper.... just adding different colors
  13. Now I need to create an end cap... it could be flat... rounded... IA has a preset circle you will see it in the image above... the menu on the left the fifth and sixth one down.  The fifth is a hallow circle and the sixth is a filled circle.  I am going to choose the hallow one to create my end cap.
  14. now to fill it I will use different shades of blue starting with dark and follow the guide I just made with this circle.
  15. Click the line tool again and use a dash lighter color... then a dash lighter again...hummm... at this point I think I have created lipstick... and thats kewl too...
  16. ok I am done with my frame so I Click from the menu at the top Edit and choose Copy
  17. Next I click the second frame to activate it
  18. Click Edit and Choose Paste
  19. My idea is to make the pink color flow from the cap to the tip... but since I want it animated I will go half way with my color.
  20. Click Edit and Choose Copy
  21. Click to activate frame 3 and choose Edit and choose Paste and continue your color almost to the tipNow that I have the color going up... I need to have it go down so the animation is smooth... so now I simply
  22. From the very top menu Click Icon and choose Insert Frame After Current... now you have a fourth frame and its empty. 
  23. Click the Fourth frame to activate it... You had copied frame # 2 and thats the one we want here so simply Click Edit and choose Paste
  24. Not the HotSpot should be set on 0.0 which is the upper left corner ...so it does not need adjusting.  This is ready to save.  In the picture menu at the top click .ani and save your animated pointer.
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