Bunney's Santa Bear

Tutorial

This tutorial was created in PSP 7. It assumes you have basic knowledge of working with preset shapes, layers, and vectors. I also used a couple of outside filter, Fantastic Machines Paint Engine, which can be downloaded here. I also used Eye-candy 4000 Fur for his hat. This filter is optional.

Lets Begin

Open a new 500 by 600 (16.7 Million colors) transparent image. I like starting out large so that we have lots of room to work with. You can always resize the image after we finish;))

Set your foreground (styles) color black and your background color to #BF896C.

Using your preset shapes tool using your ellipse shape with these settings

Draw a circle for the bears head. Now going to effects, plug-in filters, Fantastic Machines, Paint engine, Use these settings

Click apply. Then using your retouch tool with these settings

With short even strokes we want to smudge the outside edges of the bears head pulling outward. We will be using these techniques thru out this tutorial with all parts of the bears body. This is what you should have now.

Using your preset shapes tool , the ellipse shape only this time make sure create as vector IS checked!! Draw a rounded oval shape for the bears body. Using your object selector tool right click on your bears body and go to node edit, on your bottom node we want to bring that up toward the top like this

When you get your body the shape you want it right click again on the inside of the bears body and go to quit node editing. Then go to layers convert to raster. Open your layer palette and rename layer 2 body.

Open your layer palette and drag the body layer below layer 1.

Add the same Fantastic Machines paint engine filter using the same settings as before on the bears head. Click apply. Again using your retouch tool same settings do the exact same way all around the bears body to get the fuzz like we did on the head. This is what you should have now.

Go to layers, new raster layer and name this layer ear. Using your preset shape tool this time create as vector does NOT need to be checked. Draw a small circle for the bears ear. We just need one ear because the other one will be covered with a santas hat. Now we want to apply the same Fantastic Machines, Paint engine filter as we did earlier, Click apply and then use your retouch tool to do the ear the exact same way you did on the bears head and body. This is what you should have now.

Remember yours will be larger and show more detail as this one has been resized for download time. Looks funny with only one ear huh? LOL. To add the santa's hat go to page 2.

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