Pixel Mouse
by
MOE

Printer friendly version HERE

To make this mouse, all you need is PSP. 

1.  Open a transparent canvas of 100 X 150 pixels, this should give us plenty of room to work with.

2.  Flood fill this layer with white and then make a new raster layer.  This is the layer that we will be drawing on so make sure it is the active layer by clicking on it.

3.  Select you paintbrush set at size one and draw the outline like in the next picture.
These are the colors that I chose but please feel free to pick your own.

'Fur' = #C9895D
Dress/hat = #7174F7
Hat frill = #FDD4A3

4.  Pick your flood fill tool (the bucket) Make sure that the 'sample merged' box is checked. (this saves you from having to select each part of the picture before filling it!) Fill each section.
These are the colors that I chose:

'Fur' = #DCB49A
Dress/hat = #C9CAF7
Hat frill = #FFF6EB
Inner ears = #F2DCCE

NOW FOR THE SHADING!

5.  Using your magic wand, select her hat.
Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects.
With these settings:

Vertical = 1
Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 100
Blur = 5
Shade = #8A8DFC

Deselect.

6.  Using your magic wand, select her dress top.
Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects.
With these settings:

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 100
Blur = 8
Shade = #8A8DFC

Deselect.

7.  Using your magic wand, select part of her skirt that is just above her hands.
Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects.
With these settings:

Vertical = 1
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 5
Shade = #8A8DFC

Deselect.

8.  Using your magic wand, select her skirt.
Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects.
With these settings:

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 100
Blur = 11
Shade = #8A8DFC

Keep selected add a second cutout:

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = -2
Opacity = 100
Blur = 11
Shade = #8A8DFC

Deselect.

9.  Using your magic wand, select both of her hands. (hold down the shift key to select more than one area at a time)
Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects.
With these settings:

Vertical = -3
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 4
Shade = #CF956F

Deselect.

10.  Using your magic wand, select her face.
Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects.
With these settings:

Vertical = -1
Horizontal = -2
Opacity = 100
Blur = 6
Shade = #CF956F

Keep selected and add a second cutout:

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 100
Blur = 5
Shade = #CF956F

Deselect.

11.  Using your magic wand, select her hat frill.
Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects.
With these settings:

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 100
Blur = 4
Shade = #F7C58B

Deselect.

12.  Using your magic wand, select the left inner ear (your left).
Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects.
With these settings:

Vertical = 3
Horizontal = -1
Opacity = 100
Blur = 6
Shade = #DCAC8C

Deselect.

13.  Using your magic wand, select the right inner ear (your right).
Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects.
With these settings:

Vertical = 2
Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 100
Blur = 5
Shade = #DCAC8C

Deselect.

14.  Draw in the shading on the top of the ears and the features as in the next picture.
These are the colors that I chose:

Ear shade = #D29B77
Eyes = #000000 (black)
Nose = #C9895D
Nose pink = #E17E5E

15.  With your magic wand, select outside the mouse, 
Selections > invert. (this is to stop the dress detail from 'bleeding')

16.  Make a new raster layer and using your paint brush set at size one, draw in the skirt detail.  
I used #7174F7 (the same as the dress outline)

17.  Apply a gaussian blur of 1 to the skirt detail and then deselect.

 18.  Hide the bottom layer (the first layer) and then merge visible.
Draw in the features and shading at the top of the ears like the next picture.
These are the colors that I chose:

Eyes = #000000 (black)
Mouth and nose = #C9895D
Pink of nose = #E17E5E
Ear shading = #D29B77

Save as a psp. image 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, feel free to email me.

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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 23 May 2004.
Thank you,  ©MOE