This tutorial was written by Monti on September 5th 2009. It's concept is copyrighted to Monti. Any creation you make from my ideas are yours. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own.
For this tutorial you will need
Paint Shop Pro
The Following Colour Chart
Save and open in PSP.
Of course you are free to use any colours you want. As you can see above I also made a pink Hippo.
Ok we are ready to start.
REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN
Step 1:
We will be be making the hippo shown below. The outlines below have been resized a lot so you can see them clearly.
To make this easier I have numbered all pixels over 1.
NOTE: Ignore the faded face for now, we will do that when we have done the outline.
Open a new image 200 x 200 transparent.
Flood fill with white so you can see what you are working on. Delete this layer at the end.
Turn the grid on so you can see the single pixels by going to View - Grid - then View - Change Grid, Guide and Snap Properties. Under Current Image Settings change the Horizontal and Vertical grids to 1.
Add a new Raster Layer and name Outline.
Select the brush tool with the following settings.
Size: 1 - Hardness, Opacity and Density: 100
Zoom in to about 800% - 1000%
I find it easier to start the highest point, in this case one of his ears. (You can move the image later using your move tool if you need to).
Set your foreground to colour 1 on the colour chart (#191A1B) and start drawing the Hippo outline.
Once the outline is complete add a new raster layer and name it Ears.
Draw in the ear lines using the guide below and colour 4 (#FF6D9A) on your colour chart.
Hide this layer for now by clicking on the eye in the layer palette next to this layer.
Add a new raster layer and name it Face.
Draw in the face using my hippos above as a position guide.
Use the guide below, set your foreground to Black (#000000) and draw in the mouth, nostrils and eyes.
Hide this layer for now by clicking on the eye in the layer palette next to this layer.
Step 2:
When all of your outline is complete (on 3 different layers), click on the outline layer to activate it.
Select your magic wand with the following settings and click inside the left ear.
Add a new raster layer called Fills and move this beneath your outline layer in the layer palette.
Select colour 2 (#838C9B) on your hippo colour chart, click on the Fill layer to activate it and flood fill that selection.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical: 0
Horizontal: 0
Opacity: 60
Blur: 6
Shadow colour: Use your hippo outline. Colour 1 (#191A1B).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.
Repeat this for the right ear making sure you fill on the Fill layer.
Activate the outline layer and click inside both ears.
Activate the Ear layer and while on this layer go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius: 1.
Deselect.
Step 3:
Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the top part of the head.
Select colour 2 (#838C9B) on your hippo colour chart and making sure you are on your fill layer flood fill that selection.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical: 0
Horizontal: 0
Opacity: 60
Blur: 10
Shadow colour: Use your hippo outline. Colour 1 (#191A1B).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.
Step 4:
Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the body of the hippo.
Select colour 2 (#838C9B) on your hippo colour chart and making sure you are on your fill layer flood fill that selection.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical: 0
Horizontal: 0
Opacity: 60
Blur: 13
Shadow colour: Use your hippo outline. Colour 1 (#191A1B).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.
Step 5:
Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the hippo's left leg.
Select colour 2 (#838C9B) on your hippo colour chart and making sure you are on your fill layer flood fill that selection.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical: 0
Horizontal: 0
Opacity: 60
Blur: 11
Shadow colour: Use your hippo outline. Colour 1 (#191A1B).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.
Repeat this for the right leg making sure you fill on the Fill layer.
Step 6:
Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the lower head area.
Select colour 3 (#A2A8B0) on your hippo colour chart and making sure you are on your fill layer flood fill that selection.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical: 0
Horizontal: 0
Opacity: 65
Blur: 9
Shadow colour: Use your hippo outline. Colour 1 (#191A1B).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.
Unhide your Face layer.
Step 7:
Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside all 6 toes.
Select colour 3 (#A2A8B0) on your hippo colour chart and making sure you are on your fill layer flood fill that selection.
Deselect.
Delete the White layer.
Merge all visible and save as a png.
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