Brilliant, it worked a treat. Thank you Jon, much appreciated :-)<br><br><b><i>"Jon A. Cruz" &lt;jon@...204...&gt;</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">  <div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>One way would be to convert it to a path and then edit the nodes.</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Once you have an ellipse, do "Path|Object to Path"&nbsp;</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Then change to the node tool (F2) and you should then see four nodes. Just drag one away a bit and play with the handles on it.</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br><div><div>On Feb 27, 2006, at 12:56 AM, Lea Hudson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br>  <br>  After only just discovering Inkscape, I'm just practicing drawing  simple, cartoon animals. One thing I'd like to do, but cannot figure 
 out is how to draw an egg shape. The elipse is easy, but how do I  narrow the top to make it look more like an actual egg? I've been  through the tutorials and think there's probably something really easy  I've missed :-)<br>  <br>  Cheers,<br>  Jim<br><div>   <br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><hr size="1"><font face="Arial" size="2">Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/mobile_o2/*http://www.yahoo.co.uk/blackberry"><b>Enter now</b></a>.</font></blockquote></div><br></blockquote><br><p>
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