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Flash Kids' Corner: Drawing Bobo the Mouse

By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com

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Bobo Got Back

You can start to see a mouse there, right? But mice have chubby little bottoms and little haunches, so we need to spread Bobo's body out on the bottom. Since we can't overstuff him on cheese until he gains a few pounds, let's use the Free Transform Tool.. This tool lets you scale your shapes, making them bigger or smaller, or rotate them around, or make them look like they're shrinking or expanding with distance, or skew them away from their normal shapes.

Click on the tool about halfway down your toolbar, and then click and drag until a bounding box surrounds the entire body. At the very bottom of the toolbar, you'll see a section labeled Options; click on the button in the lower right corner, that looks like a trapezoid. This will let us change just portions of Bobo's shape instead of changing all of him.

When the bounding box changes so that you can see square dots with little line handles tipped by circular dots, you know you can widen Bobo's bottom. Just click and hold the square dots on the corners with the mouse, and drag them out on each side to pull it wider until it's as wide as you want.

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