How to Assemble a drawing
Draw a circle
Open Assembly and tap the “New Project” square. Swipe through the shapes at the bottom to find a circle, and tap it to make one. Drag the round handle to resize it. (You can use two fingers to drag around the artboard.)
Apply color fills
Add another circle on top. Make this smaller, and drag it to the right. To color the circles, tap the Styles tab, then tap the button with three dots to see a color picker. Choose from the wheel or the palettes below it.
Complete the eye
Returning to the Shapes tab, tap “Basics” to pop up more shapes. Swipe left until you get to “Tiles.” Find a circle with one squared corner, then a semicircle, and position them as shown. Notice how they snap to align.
Group and duplicate
Tap one object and hold on it, then tap the others in turn to select them all. Tap the lock icon (bottom left) to group them. Tap the icon with two squares at the right to make a copy, and drag it aside.
Arrange stacking
From Tiles, draw another semicircle for the beak and color it yellow. Then draw a circle with a flat bottom for the owl’s body, and enlarge it. Now it covers up the eyes and beak. Tap the down-arrow icon to send it behind.
Add features
Use more shapes from Tiles for the ears and wing. Copy the wing shape, size it down and make further copies for the feathers. Notice how the smart guides help you not only align shapes but space them evenly.
Complete the body
Use a quarter-circle for a claw, color it yellow, then add copies to complete the feet. To make the body taller, add a narrow block (from Basics) and color it to match by tapping the eyedropper, then the body.
Add background
Draw a square filling the artboard, color it dark blue to represent the night sky and send it to the back. Now add a single line, from “The Strokes” in Shapes, and use the Stroke setting in Styles to set its thickness. Color it brown.
Complete the pic
Add triangles for the branch end and twig; they won’t snap to the stroke, so pinch to zoom and position them. Finally, select the eyebrows and, in Styles, give them a shadow, using the joypad to move it downwards.