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The Pen Block
Pen blocks in Scratch allow a Sprite to draw shapes and plot coloured pixels on
the screen. These blocks are colour-coded as dark green and are used to draw the
footprints of the Sprite.
BLOCKS FUNCTIONS
This block puts Sprite’s pen up, so that it will not
pen up
draw as it moves on the screen.
This block puts Sprite’s pen down, so that it will draw
pen down
as it moves on the screen.
This block changes the pen colour based on your
set pen color to
choice from the colour picker.
This block keeps the pen coloured but lightens
or darkens the shade of that colour by the value
change pen shade by 10
mentioned. For light shades, use negative values
and for dark shades, use positive values.
This block duplicates the Sprite’s image onto the
stamp
stage.
DRAWING A SQUARE
To draw a square, the script will be as follows:
Step 1 Drag the when clicked block from the Events block menu.
Step 2 Drag the clear block from the Pen block menu. This will
clear any previously drawn image.
Step 3 Drag the pen down block and set pen color to block
from the Pen blocks menu.
Step 4 Now, drag the move 10 steps block and
turn 15 degrees block from Motion blocks
menu. Change the values to 100 and 90
respectively. This becomes Move 100 steps
and Turn 90 degrees.
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