Bear Hugs
by
MOE

Printer Friendly version  HERE

1.  Open a transparent canvas of 150 x 150 pixels.  Flood fill this with white and then create a second raster layer, this is the layer that we will be drawing on so make sure it is the active layer by clicking on it.

2.  Pick your paintbrush set at size one and draw the outline by following the picture.

I used #C8875C for the lighter bear and #CAAEA8 for the darker bear.

(The blue numbers are 'section' numbers, mainly for the shading)

3.  Pick your flood fill tool (the bucket) and making sure that the 'sample merged' box is checked, fill in your bears.

I used:
#F4DED0 for the light bear.
#CAAEA8 for the darker bear. 
#E1B99E for section 8.
#8D5C4C for section 15.

NOW FOR THE SHADING

4.  With your selection tool (the magic wand) select section 1.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout

Using these settings:

Vertical = 1
Horizontal = 4
Opacity = 85
Blur = 14
Shade = #D5A07D

Keep selected and apply a second cutout using these settings:

Vertical = -4
Horizontal = 3
Opacity = 85
Blur = 10
Shade = #D5A07D

Deselect.

5.  With your selection tool (the magic wand) select section 2.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout

Using these settings:

Vertical = -1
Horizontal = 3
Opacity = 80
Blur = 9
Shade = #D5A07D

Keep selected and apply a second cutout using these settings:

Vertical = 1
Horizontal = -5
Opacity = 90
Blur = 9
Shade = #D5A07D

Deselect.

6.  With your selection tool (the magic wand) select section 3.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout

Using these settings:

Vertical = -4
Horizontal = 5
Opacity = 85
Blur = 10
Shade = #D5A07D

Deselect.

7.  With your selection tool (the magic wand) select section 4.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout

Use the same settings as for section 4

8.  With your selection tool (the magic wand) select section 5.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout

Using these settings:

Vertical = -2
Horizontal = -4
Opacity = 85
Blur = 7
Shade = #D5A07D

Deselect.

9.  With your selection tool (the magic wand) select section 6.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout

Using these settings:

Vertical = -2
Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 85
Blur = 7
Shade = #D5A07D

Deselect.

10.  With your selection tool (the magic wand) select section 7.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout

Using these settings:

Vertical = -3
Horizontal = 3
Opacity = 80
Blur = 6
Shade = #D5A07D

Deselect.

11.  With your selection tool (the magic wand) select section 9.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout

Using these settings:

Vertical = -4
Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 90
Blur = 15
Shade = #7B4431

Deselect.

12.  With your selection tool (the magic wand) select section 10.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout

Using these settings:

Vertical = -10
Horizontal = 10
Opacity = 90
Blur = 21
Shade = #7B4431

Keep selected and apply a second cutout using these settings:

Vertical = 2
Horizontal = -3
Opacity = 75
Blur = 9
Shade = #7B4431

Deselect.

13.  With your selection tool (the magic wand) select section 11.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout

Using these settings:

Vertical = -4
Horizontal = 8
Opacity = 90
Blur = 13
Shade = #7B4431

Deselect.

14.  With your selection tool (the magic wand) select section 12.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout

Use the same settings as you used for section 11.

15.  With your selection tool (the magic wand) select section 13.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout

Using these settings:

Vertical = -3
Horizontal = -1
Opacity = 80
Blur = 4
Shade = #7B4431

Deselect.

16.  With your selection tool (the magic wand) select section 14.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout

Using these settings:

Vertical = -3
Horizontal = 4
Opacity = 80
Blur = 6
Shade = #7B4431

Deselect.

17.  Back to your paintbrush at size one, draw in some features on the light bear.
I used #5D2E1F.

Save as  a .psp file for future use.

That's it, you're done!
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and found it easy to follow.
If you have any problems or questions, feel free to email me.




~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please do not link directly to this tutorial, please link to my home page. You may print it out for your own personal use, but do not copy it in any way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write without my permission.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental. This tutorial was written  24 March 2005.
Thank you,  İMOE