All Dressed Up For
Halloween Bear Tutorial

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Add a new raster layer and name this layer legs. Using your preset shapes tool   make sure create as vector IS CHECKED. Your foreground (styles) color should still be set at black and your background color needs to be the brown you are using for your bear, draw another oblong ellipse shape we want this one a little longer and wider then your arm. Edit with your object selector if you need to like we did with the rest of the bear, When you get your bears leg the way you want it, open your layer palette and we need to bring this layer just below the bears costume layer but make sure its above your bears body layer . You are going to have extra layers because when we use vector shapes and create as vectors they are put on their own layers also. So don't worry;))

 

Once you have your leg set the way you want it, go to edit copy, edit paste as new selection and place it on the opposite side go to image mirror and place on the opposite side of your bears body. This is what your bear should look like now;))
 

 

In your layers palette your leg layer should still be highlighted if not highlight  your leg layer and then add a new layer and name this layer foot, Using your preset shapes tool We are using the ellipse shape once again this time create as vector IS NOT CHECKED. Right at the base of your bears leg draw a small oblong circle for the bears foot like this

 

 

Once you have your foot set the way you want it go to edit copy, edit paste as a new selection and place on the other bears foot.

 

Now your bear is almost done, We need to add his wings, Add yes you guessed it another layer lol. Name this layer wing. You need to change your background color to white now. Your foreground (styles) color should still be set at black.  Using your preset shapes tool  same settings as before using the ellipse shape, make sure create as vector IS checked. Draw an oblong shape for his wing, you can edit it if you wish I just pulled my middle node out to a point and you will need to run your mouse over the middle node until you see the two arrows and then rotate your wing to where its pointing upwards . Open your layer palette and bring this layer all the way below the bears body layer. Once you have your wing set the way you want it go to layers convert to raster. This is what my bear looks like now

 

 

Now I am going to add the gold. Using your magic wand  and make sure you are still on your same layer for your wing, now using these settings
 

 
click anywhere on your image, we want the marching ants to be around your wing, you will have the ants going around the entire image as well as the wing so go to selections invert and this will put your marching ants around your wing only. 

Add a new layer, don't move your marching ants they still need to be around your wing ( I hope I don't lose ya on these steps) after you add a new layer we are going to flood fill it with this pattern just right click and save as to your computer, put this into your PSP patterns folder
 

 

To flood fill change  on your background color click and hold on the little arrow a window opens up like this

 

You need to click on the one with the dots and then another window opens up browse to find your pattern that you just saved to this folder . We want the background color set to the gold pattern and the foreground (styles) color set to black.

 

You should still have your marching ants around your wing, and should still be on the new layer you created now go to selections modify contract by 2. and  using your flood fill tool  right click your mouse and flood fill it with the pattern fill . This is what your image looks like now.
 

 

You have covered your white up, But don't worry that's the way we wanted it , I added this pattern fill to a new layer because we need to lower the opacity on it and if we just flood filled it with the pattern only then when we lower the opacity it would be transparent and we needed that layer of white behind it so that it wouldn't be transparent. So open your layer palette again make sure you are on the gold pattern fill layer that you just created. And slide the bar on the right down to 80 like this

 

 

Now while you still have your layer palette open place a red x on all layers except your wings layer and the layer you created to flood fill your gold pattern with, We want to merge visible just these two layers so that it only creates one layer. Merge visible these two layers, rename this layer wings.

 

Go to selections, select none (this is important as we want to copy the outside area of the wings also) So go to selections select none, then go to edit copy, edit paste as a new selection then image mirror and place on the opposite side of your bear like this

 

Did I lose you??? I sure hope not. Now we need to edit paste as a new selection again Now make sure you are still on your wings and once again go to edit copy, edit paste as a new selection,  make sure you keep your image selected because we are only going to work with this part of the wings. Then image flip, We need to make these smaller so using your deformation tool  using ctrl on your keyboard we need to bring this part of the wing up and in a little like this
 

 

Once you have it set the way you want it then double click to apply the deformation. Now you can go to selections, select none. We are almost done I promise but we do need to add some detailed features to our bear:0) I have zipped up a Halloween treat bag for you  if you wish to use it, I created this from a dingbat and made it into a preset shape. But have also zipped it up as a tube if you would like to use it. Note this tube is for PSP 7 only! It will not work in psp 6 or lower. You can download that here.  Unzip it to your psp tubes folder.

 

If you have chosen to use the tube for his Halloween treat bag, Then on your bear image highlight your eyes layer and add a new raster layer and name this layer bag. Apply your tube, I set mine to scale of 47, this of course may vary depending upon the size of your bear. My step was set at 200. 

 

Go to view zoom in by 1 (one). We need to get rid of some of the handle so that he is carrying the bag. So zoom in at your bag handle and using your freehand tool   with these settings
 

 

Now draw around the selection around the handle like this 

 

 

Get as close to the bear arm sides as you can, now hit delete on your keyboard to get rid of this selection. Looks like the bear is holding the bag better now:0) Now you can go back to view normal viewing if you wish. You can add some words to the bag if you wish.

 

We can forget the antlers of whatever you would call those for a bee LOL. So add a new layer and using your draw tool   with these settings
 

 

Now draw two lines on top of your bears head going upward and out like this
 

 

Now using your preset shapes tool  using your ellipse shape create as vector does NOT need to be checked. And draw two small circles on top of the lines you just drew make sure your foreground (styles) color and your background colors are both black. This is what you should have
 

 

Now last step phew LOL. Using your draw tool once again   This time you need to change your width of your line to (one) 1. Draw small lines all around your bear. You do not want to draw lines around the  costume of antenna. Don't forget to draw extra detail for his arms for his paws and his feet. This is what your bear should now look like.
 

 

I added a drop shadow to different areas of his body, but this is up to you. You are now finished with your All Dressed up for Halloween bear!

 

Sometimes these tutorials get very long and I am sorry, But I am one for lots of detail. And when they get long I am always afraid I might forget something so I try to recreate the tutorials as I write them to try to eliminate me leaving anything out but sometimes this can happen. So If I have left anything out or something is unclear to you please don't hesitate to email me at  kitchel@webworkz.com and I will answer all email as soon as possible. I hope you have enjoyed this "All dressed up for Halloween" tutorial. 

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