Moe's Go's @ Tuts/Pixel Humming bird

Humming Bird
by
MOE

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Please remember to save your work often!

1. Open a transparent canvas of 200 x 200 pixels. Flood fill this layer with white, name it background. Create a second raster layer. Name this layer outline. This is the layer that we will be drawing on first so make sure it is the active layer by clicking on it.

2. With your paintbrush set at size one, draw the outline by following the pictures.

These are the colors that I chose but feel free to choose your own.

Body: #469A3A
Beak: #AE1517
Legs: #58748C
Wing feathers: #81A9BD

(The blue numbers on this one are for reference when doing the shading)

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

These are the colors that I chose but feel free to choose your own.

Body: #218432
Beak: #E45B69
Legs: #5E839E
Wing feathers: #83D8C7

This is what you should have now:

NOW FOR THE SHADING!

4. With your magic wand, select the body.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = 2
Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 90
Blur = 12
Shade = #6AF59A

Deselect.

5. With your magic wand, select the back wing.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = 1
Horizontal = 3
Opacity = 90
Blur = 10
Shade = #6AF59A

Deselect.

6. With your magic wand, select the beak.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = -1
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 80
Blur = 3
Shade = #830F12

Deselect.

7. With your magic wand, select both feet (Hold down the shift key to select more than one area at a time).

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = -1
Horizontal = -1
Opacity = 90
Blur = 2
Shade = #3D596F

Deselect.

8. With your magic wand, select section 1.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = 1
Horizontal = 3
Opacity = 100
Blur = 5
Shade = #C7FDF2

Deselect.

Apply this same cutout to sections 2 and then 3 individually!

9. With your magic wand, select section 4.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = 3
Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 100
Blur = 5
Shade = #C7FDF2

Deselect.

10. With your magic wand, select section 5.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = 2
Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 100
Blur = 5
Shade = #C7FDF2

Deselect.

Apply same cutout to section 6.

11. With your magic wand, select section 7.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = 2
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 5
Shade = #C7FDF2

Deselect.

12. With your magic wand, select section 8.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = 2
Horizontal = -2
Opacity = 100
Blur = 5
Shade = #C7FDF2

Deselect.

13. With your magic wand, select section 9.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = 2
Horizontal = -3
Opacity = 100
Blur = 5
Shade = #C7FDF2

Deselect.

14. With your magic wand, select section 10.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = 2
Horizontal = -4
Opacity = 100
Blur = 5
Shade = #C7FDF2

Deselect.

Apply this same cutout to section 11.

15. Make a third raster layer, name it chest, then draw in the eye surround and the chest.

These are the colors that I chose.

Eye surround: #83D8C7
Chest: #285BDC

(I have colored the eye surround in red so that you can see it easier. You might need to lower the opacity of the outline layer slightly so that you can see what you are doing better)

16. Hide the outline layer by clicking on the glasses. Make sure you are on the chest layer and with your flood fill tool, fill in the eye and chest.

These are the colors that I chose:

Eye: #83D87
Chest: #285BDC

17. . With your magic wand, select the eye area.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = 2
Horizontal = -1
Opacity = 100
Blur = 4
Shade = #C7FDF2

Deselect.

18. With your magic wand, select the chest area.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = -2
Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 80
Blur = 5
Shade = #063BBB

Deselect.

Un-hide the outline layer by clicking on the glasses.

19. Draw in the eye using #000000 (Black)

20. Hide (or delete if you wish!) the background layer by clicking on the glasses and then go to layers > merge > merge visible.

21. Save your humming bird 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 questions, feel free to email me.

Please be kind enough to sign my guest book on my home page to I know you were here.

Thank you.

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Thank you, ŠMOE