Bunney's Santa Bear

Tutorial Page 4

Open your layer palette and highlight your head layer, Using your preset shapes tool once again using the ellipse shape (circle) create as vector IS checked. Your colors both foreground (styles) and background colors should be black. Draw a circle for his mouth, using your object selector tool right click and go to node edit, we want to shape this preset shape similar to an odd heart shape like this

I really had to just play around to get the shape I wanted with this, this picture also shows the dimple marks yours will not have that yet:)) Once you have your mouth shaped the way you want it right click on the inside and go to quit node editing, then go to layers, convert to raster and name this layer mouth.

Going back to your draw tool, same settings as before, foreground set to black, draw dimples on both sides of the mouth. Your bear should now look similar to this

Change your background color to a light pink for his tongue, I am using #E88A8C. Add a new raster layer and name this layer tongue Use your preset shapes tool same settings only you can UNCHECK create as vector. Draw an oval shape for his tongue and take your draw tool and draw a black line in the center like this

Now all that's left is the vest and the bow tie:)) Going back to your preset shapes tool once again, This time we are going to use the rectangle shape again, Create as vector IS checked. Change your background to a pattern fill of your choice, (I am using a gradient fill, Sorry I cant offer that for download as I am not sure where it came from. When I get that information and the ok to use it with this tutorial I will upload it at that point, Until then Sorry. ) But chose a pattern or a gradient of your choice for your background color. Your foreground (styles) color should still be set at black.

Draw a rectangle covering most of your bears body and arms, not to large, using your object selector tool right click and go to node edit, we need to add a couple nodes so using your ctrl on your keyboard move your mouse over till you see the words add at the bottom of your rectangle we want to add 3 nodes evenly at the bottom of the rectangle

Pull nodes 2 and 4 directly up like this

Once you have your vest the way you want it, right click and go to quit node editing then to layers convert to raster and rename this layer vest. Open your layer palette up and drag this layer below your leg layer so that its under the arms and head this is what you should have

Change your background color back to black. Using your preset shapes tool create as vector NOT checked and add a new raster layer, draw 3-4 small buttons going down the front of his vest, I also added a small drop shadow to the buttons. That's up to you;))

Now what's left is The bow tie, I created this tube from a preset shape I had, You can download the tube here. Open it up in psp and export it as a tube.
Add a new raster layer and using your picture tube tool locate your bow tie and add your tie, I resized my tube to a scale of 24, this will depend upon the size of your bear. I added a slight drop shadow to the tie as well. You are now finished and this is what your bear should now look like

You are now done:0) You can merge visible all layers and export this as a tube if you wish:)) That wasn't bad was it? LOL. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial as much as I have creating it. If something isn't clear or I have left something out please don't hesitate to emaill me at kitchel@webworkz.com and I will answer all email as soon as possible. While you are here why not try some of my other tutorials?

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