Mr. Penguin This tutorial was written for PSP but possibly can be revised for other versions of PSP. This tutorial assumes you have working knowledge of vectors as well as layer.  I hope you enjoy this tutorial as much as I have creating it. You will need to download this preset shape for Mr. Penguin's tie and the heart for his head you will find here. Unzip this into your psp 7 shapes folder. If you are having problems viewing the shapes once they are unzipped, open up psp and use your browse to locate the psp shapes folder. You should see this shape in this folder, double click on that and go to files export as shapes and name it and you should now be able to view the shapes.  Lets Begin Open a new 600 by 600 (16.7 million colors) transparent image. Your foreground (styles) color should be set on black, background color needs to be white. Using your preset shapes tool , browse to find the teardrop shape with these settings Now draw a teardrop shape for the penguin's body like this  Using your magic wand tool with these settings  Click on the inside of the penguin's belly so that the marching ants are only around the inside of the white area. Using your airbrush tool with these settings  Spray around the outer edges of the penguin's belly like this Then go to selections, select none. The body was the easy part, the head isn't as easy lol. Add a new raster layer and name this layer head.  Change your background color to black, both foreground (styles) and background colors should be black. Using your preset shapes tool change the preset shape to ellipse with these settings  Draw the penguin's head over the top point of the penguin's body like this Using your preset shapes tool once again this time change the shape to heart 4. Your background color also needs to be changed to white, Use these settings  Draw a heart on the inside of your penguin's head, using your object selector tool right click on the inside of the heart, go to node edit and left click on the bottom node, you will see an arrow pop up, we just want to pull that arrow down toward the bottom just a little to take the point of the heart away. This is what you should have now Once you have the heart shaped the way you want it right click again on the inside of the heart and go to quit node editing, Then to layers convert to raster and name this layer face. Use your magic wand same settings as before and click on the face so that the marching ants are only around the face. Now use your airbrush same settings as used on the penguin's body and spray the black around the outer edges like you did for his body. This is what you should have now. Remember your image will be larger and show more detail then the one shown above, this one has been resized for download time. Now lets add some facial features to this little guy to give him some character.  Change your background color to an orange for his bill, I am using #ED8B26. Using your preset shapes tool, change your shape to the triangle with these settings Draw a triangle on the heart shaped face. We then need to go to image flip so that the point is toward the bottom of the heart shaped face like this Using your object selector tool right click on the inside of the bill and go to node edit, on all 3 (three) nodes right click and go to node type and chose symmetric, we wont need to do anything else to these nodes but make sure you do all three, this rounds them off like we want them. This is what it should look like  now Once you get your bill set the way you want it, right click again and go to quit node editing, then to layers convert to raster and name this layer bill.  Using your draw tool with these settings  Now draw a curve around the top middle part of his bill. This make take some practice so don't give up:))) This is what you should have now This image shows the two black lines in the middle do this with your draw tool before you add your black outlining around the bill like we did on the penguin's face and body. Now add your black out line with your airbrush by using your magic wand and selecting only the bill so that the marching ants are only around the bill then use same settings as before to spray the black areas around the bill. We are going to add his eyes and cheeks so go to page 2. Page 2   This Tutorial  © Bunney's Burrow  2001