Bunney's Snowman

Bunney's Frosty The Snowman

Tutorial

This tutorial was written in PSP 7, And can probably be revised for other versions of Psp, However the vectors may be different. I only used one outside filter Eye-candy 4000 Fur, however this is optional, I used it for the snowman's hat rim. This tutorial was written for those familiar with layers and Vector shapes.

Lets Begin

Open a new transparent 600 by 600 (16.7 million colors) image, This is rather large but I like to work with a larger image as we can always resize later;))

Go to layers, new raster layer, name this layer head. Your foreground (styles) color should be black and your background color should be a light cream color I am using #F7F8F0. I didn't want my snowman completely white:))

Now using your preset shapes tool with these settings

Draw an oblong circle for the snowman's head. Going down to your object selector tool then right click inside your circle you just drew and go to node edit, We want to bring the bottom node up just a little like this

Once you get your head shaped the way you want it right click again and go to quite node editing.

Now go to layers convert to raster once you get your head the way you want it, Now using your magic wand Make sure you are still on your layer head and select your head so that the marching ants are only around the head. You may have to go to selections invert to make sure that ONLY the head is selected:))
Change your foreground (styles ) color to a medium gray I am using #808080., Using your airbrush tool with these settings

Now just spray a little of your gray near the marching ants on the inside of your head. Then go to effects, Blur, gaussian blur and use this setting

This is what your head should now look like

Of course yours will be larger and more detail as I have resized this one for download time:))

Go to layers, new raster layer and name this layer hat rim. Change your foreground (styles) color back to black and change your background color to a deep red or a color you want to use for your hat rim, I am using #CE393B. Using your preset shapes tool

and change your shape to rectangle, Using the same line width as before which was 1 make sure create as vector is checked;0) Now going about half way down your santas head draw a rectangle like this

Using your object selector tool again right click on the inside of your rectangle and go to node edit, now for the rim we want to add six nodes at the bottom of the hat rim, to do this click hold the ctrl key on your keyboard until you see the word add then right click with your mouse to add these nodes:0) Your nodes should look similar to this

Now what we want to do is drag these nodes up to almost the top part of the snowmans head to where it is curved around his head like this

Looks funny doesn't it but we are going to fix that now. Ok You should still be editing your nodes, the two nodes on the very end you need to click on the nodes and then go to node type, symmetric like this

Make sure you do the two nodes on the bottom on the end. You have a total of 8 nodes counting the 6 you added and the two that where already there so its the two on the very end. Do both of these like this. Do the exact same thing to the very top two nodes also and add the symmetric lines to those as well. This just rounds the curves. You will want to pull up the top left node just a little and bring the top left node in a little , When you get done this is what you should have

You may just have to play around with it to get it the way you want it, This is just the way I did mine:0) Now convert this layer to a raster layer by going to layers convert to raster , Now I am going to add the Eye-candy Fur 4000 filter to mine, This just give it a fuzzy look this step is optional . If you chose to use this filter play around with those settings to come up with something you like:)) This is what mine looks like,

Now we are going to add the rest of his hat so go to page 2.

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