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Pixel
Rudolf
by
MOE
I drew this one last year before
I was writing tutorials for my pixels so I
thought it was the right time of year to write
one for him!
Printer friendly version HERE
1. Open a transparent
canvas of 200 x 200 pixels. Flood fill
this layer 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 pictures.
These are the colors that I
chose but feel free to pick your own.
Main body/antlers: #9C5E23
Chest/belly/back of tail: #ECAD75
Hooves: #683C17
(I have put the hooves in blue so you can see
them clearly...but you use #683C17)
3.
Pick your flood fill tool and making sure that
the 'sample merged' box is checked, fill in your
Rudolf. These are the colors that I chose: Main
body/legs: #C98242
Chest/belly/back of tail/antlers: #F3C299
Hooves: #935620 You should now
have this (but smaller!)
NOW FOR THE SHADING! 4.
With your magic wand, select the main body. Selections
> Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cut
out. With these settings: Vertical
= 3
Horizontal = -2
Opacity = 75
Blur = 15
Shade = #9C5E23 Deselect 5.
With your magic wand, select the head. Selections
> Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cut
out. With these settings: Vertical
= -3
Horizontal = -1
Opacity = 75
Blur = 9
Shade = #9C5E23 Deselect 6.
With your magic wand, select the far front leg. Selections
> Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cut
out. With these settings: Vertical
= 4
Horizontal = -4
Opacity = 85
Blur = 6
Shade = #9C5E23 Deselect 7.
With your magic wand, select the far back leg. Selections
> Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cut
out. With these settings: Vertical
= 2
Horizontal = -2
Opacity = 85
Blur = 4
Shade = #9C5E23 Deselect 8.
With your magic wand, select the 'left side' of
the tail. Selections > Float
> Effects > 3D Effects > Cut out. With
these settings: Vertical = 1
Horizontal = -1
Opacity = 85
Blur = 3
Shade = #9C5E23 Deselect 9.
With your magic wand, select the left antler. Selections
> Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cut
out. With these settings: Vertical
= 1
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 90
Blur = 2
Shade = #9C5E23 keep selected
and repeat this cut out but changing the
vertical to -1 (Minus one) Deselect. 10.
Repeat number 9 for the right antler. 11.
With your magic wand, select the chest. Selections
> Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cut
out. With these settings: Vertical
= 3
Horizontal = -3
Opacity = 100
Blur = 6
Shade = #ECAD75 Deselect and
apply the same cut out to the belly. 12.
With your magic wand, select the 'right side' of
the tail. Selections > Float
> Effects > 3D Effects > Cut out. With
these settings: Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 95
Blur = 2
Shade = #ECAD75 Deselect 13.
With your magic wand, select all four hooves
(hold down the shift key to select more than one
area at a time). Selections
> Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cut
out. With these settings: Vertical
= 1
Horizontal = 3
Opacity = 80
Blur = 3
Shade = #683C17 Deselect. 14.
Create a new raster layer and with your
paintbrush set at size one, draw the features. These
are the colors that I chose: Nose:
#C12336
Mouth: #683C17
Eyes: #040404 (dark) and #717171 (for the
'glint')
Inner ears #9C5E23
(I have done the inner ears in blue but you use
#9C5E23)
 15.
With your flood fill tool, fill in the nose with
#D13547 and the inner ears with #F3C299. 16.
With your magic wand, select the inside of the
nose. Pick your paintbrush and with these
colors (or a choice of your own) #DA98A0
and #FFFFFF draw in a shine
like this:
 Apply
a gaussian blur of 1 and deselect 17.
With your magic wand, select the left inner ear. Selections
> Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cut
out. With these settings: Vertical
= 0
Horizontal = -3
Opacity = 95
Blur = 3
Shade = #C17843 Deselect and
repeat this cut out on the right inner ear but
changing the horizontal to -3 (minus 3) Deselect. Hide
the bottom layer (the one we filled white) and
then merge visible. 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 questions feel free to email
me. Please be kind enough to
sign my guest book on my home page so I know
you were here. THANK YOU.
 
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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 on
1 December 2004
Thank you.
İMOE
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