Create, insert & edit drawings

You can create, insert and edit drawings with Google Drawings.

Create a cartoon in Google Docs

  1. On your reckoner, open a document.
  2. In the top left, click Insertand then Drawingand then New.
  3. Insert shapes, lines or text with the editing tools.

Create a drawing in Google Bulldoze

  1. On your computer, open a document.
  2. In the top left, click Fileand then Newand then Drawing.
  3. Insert shapes, lines or text with the editing tools.

Insert a drawing from Google Drive

Use the editing tools

You tin utilize the editing tools to add together lines, shapes, text boxes and images.

Depict a line

  1. At the top of the page, discover and click Select line.
  2. Pick the type of line you desire.
  3. Identify the line on your drawing:
    • Line, Elbow Connector, Curved Connector or Pointer: Click to start, so elevate across the canvas.
    • Bend or Polyline: Click to start, then click at each betoken you want the line to bend. Double-click or complete the shape to finish.
    • Scribble: Click to first, then drag across the canvas.
  4. Click Select.

Depict a shape

  1. At the acme of the page, find and click Shape.
  2. Choose the shape you lot want to apply.
  3. Click and drag on the canvass to draw your shape.

Insert text

  1. At the top of the page, click Insert.
    • To identify text straight on the canvas as a shape, click Word Art.
    • To identify text inside a box or confined area, click Text Box and click where you lot want to put information technology.
  2. Blazon your text and press Enter.
  3. You can select, resize and format the word art or text box, or apply styles like bold or italics to the text.

Insert an prototype

  1. At the top of the page, discover and click Image.
  2. Follow the instructions to pick or upload an paradigm.
  3. You can move and format the image similar whatever other shape.
    • Move the prototype: Drag it on the canvas.
    • Resize the image: Drag the blue boxes at the corners.
    • Rotate the image: Elevate the blue dot that's outside of the shape. Agree Shift to rotate xv° at a time.
    • Change border color, line thickness, or edge/line way: Use the buttons in a higher place the canvas.

Select and format shapes

  1. On your computer, open a drawing in Google Bulldoze.
  2. At the meridian of the page, detect and click Select.
  3. On the canvas, click the shape, line, or text box you want to modify.
    • Motion a shape: Drag it on the canvas.
    • Resize a shape: Elevate the blue boxes at the corners.
    • Rotate a line: Drag the bluish dots at the corners. Lines can exist rotated this manner.
    • Rotate a shape: Drag the blue dot that's outside of the shape. Concord Shift to rotate 15° at a fourth dimension.
    • Alter fill color, line color, line thickness, or border/line way: Utilize the buttons above the canvas.
    • Put text inside a shape: Double-click an enclosed shape and start typing.

Copy a shape

To copy a shape, hold Option (on Macs) or Ctrl (on Windows) and drag the copy to a new location.

Change your drawing size

  1. On your computer, open a drawing in Google Drive.
  2. Become to the menu and click File and then Page setup.
  3. Select a size from the dropdown menu. To cull your own size, select Custom.

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