Bunney's Snowman

Bunney's Frosty The Snowman

Tutorial

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Add a new layer and name this layer name this layer hat. Using your preset shapes tool again

This time we are going to use our triangle with these settings

Change your background color to a dark blue or one that you want his hat to be I am using #00007F. Your foreground (styles) color should still be set on black.

Draw a triangle on top of your hat rim, Again using your object selector tool right click on the inside of your triangle, Then go to node edit, again we want to nodes like we did to the hat rim, only this time we want to add 5 nodes instead of 6 to the bottom of the triangle. again bring those nodes up to curve around the hat rim like we did earlier, the left side node you need to click on it and go to node type, and chose symmetric and pull it down toward the bottom to give it a point. Now the very top node at your point you need to also make this node symmetric like we did before. Then pull that node down just a little your final hat image should now look like this

Depending upon your size of hat you may need to add a couple more nodes and play around with it to get it to shape right. Once you get your hat shaped the way you want it go to layers convert to raster, Now open your layer palette up put an x over Layer 1 and the head layer and go to layers merge visible. Rename this layer Hat.

I added some dots to my hat if you would like to do this follow on with this next step if not then go to the next step. First add a new layer, doesn't matter what the name of this layer is . I added this to another layer because I am going to blur it a little here in a second. To add the dots using your airbrush tool change your foreground color to a yellow or what ever color you want your dots to be I am using #FFFF40

Using these settings

Now just spray some dots all around your hat, When you get it the way you want it, go to effects, blur, gaussian blur and use the same settings as before

Click ok, going back to your layer palette, a red x should still be over your head layer and layer 1, again we want to merge visible the new layer you just added so go to layers merge visible name this layer hat, this makes the dots added to your hat layer you should still have 3 (three) layer, from bottom to top, Layer 1, head, and then your hat. Once your merge visible your layers you can un x those layers so that you can view them again. Your Snowman should now look similar to this

Add yet another layer and name this layer hat ball. Using your preset shapes tool again

. You need to change your background color to the deep red you used for your hat rim, Your foreground color should be black, The red I am using was color #CE393B. We will be using the ellipse shape. Create as vector IS NOT CHECKED . Everything else is the same. Now draw a small ball for your ball on your hat. I added the same Eye-candy 4000 Fur filter to mine. You can do so now or chose another filter you like . I am going to use my retouch

brush just a little to add some fuzziness to it. If you used the eye-candy and want to do this go to your retouch tool and use these settings

Now just pull the brush outwards all around the hat ball. Until it starts looking like fuzz. This is what mine looks like

I bet your thinking are we ever going to get thru?? LOL Ok This is a long tutorial but I am hoping you like the results;)) We are going to add his face next so go to page 3.

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