Saturday 25 October 2014

Pixel Rock Keyboards

This tutorial was written by Monti on September 26th 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.

This tutorial is going to be quite long but I have broken it into parts and will provide pixel counts and colour charts for each part as we get to it. 
It is very similar to the other rock chicks so please forgive the similarity but we want them all to go together.

For this tutorial you will need 

Paint Shop Pro

The Following Colour Chart 
Save and then open in PSP.
Of course you are free to use any colours you want.
Ok we are ready to start.

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN 

Step 1: -The Girl
We will be be making the Rock Chick shown above and will be starting with the girl outline. The outlines below have been resized a lot so you can see them clearly. 
I have done the outline in 2 parts, we will be starting with the top half of the girl.
To make this easier I have numbered all pixels over 1.
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% 
Change colours as you go as indicated on the outline chart.
The skin outline is colour 1 (#CA8368), the t-shirt outline is colour 5 (#A21A3D), the wrist band, leggings and shoe outline is colour 3 (#000000) and the shoe decorations are colour 6 (#EB3564)on your colour chart.
I find it easier to start at the highest point, in this case with her head. (You can move the image later using your move tool if you need to). 

Set your foreground to colour 1 (#CA8368) on the colour chart and start drawing the girl outline.

When you have completed that outline we will carry on with the outline below.
NOTE: The parts shown in blue are the parts you have already drawn from the first outline.
Step 2: - Body Fills
When all of your outline is complete, select your magic wand with the following settings and click inside her head.
Add a new raster layer called Fill and move this beneath your outline layer in the layer palette.
Select colour 2 (#FAD3C5) on your 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: 85
Blur: 7
Shadow colour: Use your skin outline. Colour 1 (#CA8368).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked. 
Deselect.

Step 3:
Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the neck area. 
Select colour 2 (#FAD3C5) on your 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: 85
Blur: 2
Shadow colour: Use your skin outline. Colour 1 (#CA8368).
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 right arm. 
Select colour 2 (#FAD3C5) on your 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: 85
Blur: 2
Shadow colour: Use your skin outline. Colour 1 (#CA8368).
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 both sections of the left arm as shown below. 
Select colour 2 (#FAD3C5) on your 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: 85
Blur: 2
Shadow colour: Use your skin outline. Colour 1 (#CA8368).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked. 
Deselect.

Step 6:
Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the left lower leg area as shown below. 
Select colour 2 (#FAD3C5) on your 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: 85
Blur: 2
Shadow colour: Use your skin outline. Colour 1 (#CA8368).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked. 
Deselect.
Repeat for the right leg.

Step 7: - Trousers Fills
Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the left trouser leg. 
Select colour 4 (#313030) on your 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: 100
Blur: 4
Shadow colour: Use your trouser outline. Colour 3 (#000000).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked. 
Deselect.
Repeat for the right trouser leg.

Step 8: - Shoe Fills
Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the left shoe making sure you select the stray pixel shown below. 
Select colour 4 (#313030) on your 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: 100
Blur: 5
Shadow colour: Use your shoe outline. Colour 3 (#000000).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked. 
Deselect.
Repeat for the right shoe making sure you select that stray pixel.

Step 9: - Wristband Fill
Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the wristband. 
Select colour 4 (#313030) on your 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: 100
Blur: 1
Shadow colour: Use your Wristband outline. Colour 3 (#000000).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked. 
Deselect.

Step 10: - T-Shirt Fill
Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the T-Shirt. 
Select colour 6 (#EB3564) on your 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: 100
Blur: 6
Shadow colour: Use your T-Shirt outline. Colour 5 (#A21A3D).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked. 
Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise - Gaussian: Checked - Noise Amount: 4 - Monochrome: Checked.
Deselect.

Step 11: - Face
You will need the following colour chart. Save and then open in PSP.
Add a new raster layer and make sure it is the top layer. 
Using the colour chart above draw in the face on this new layer. Feel free to change the colour of the eyes, I just used black as they went with the look of the girl. 
The eyebrows and nose are colour 1 (#CA8368), the 2 pixels above the eye and the pixels above the white pixels are colour 2 (#000000), the main lip colour is colour 5 (#CB5B73), the upper lip is colour 6 (#E38D9D) and the single pixel at the bottom of the mouth is colour 7 (#EBADBA).
Activate the Outline layer.
Select your magic wand and click inside the head.
Add a new raster layer.
Set your foreground to #E4909E and select your Paint Brush - Shape: Round - Size: 4.
Click once on each side of the face, using my guide below for positioning. 
Go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - 2.
Deselect.
Save your pixel and go and get a drink before we work on the hair.

Step 12: - Hair
This part is probably the most complicated part of the tutorial but if you take it slowly you will be ok. 
In fact because I know some of you may have problems keeping the count on this section so you can save them and open them in PSP. Use your paint brush to mark the pixels you have drawn.
You will need the following colour chart. Save and then open in PSP.
We will be doing the hair in 3 parts starting with the count shown below. 
Open a new 150 x 150 transparent image.
Add a new raster layer and select colour 1 (#000000) on the colour chart and start to draw the outline shown below. 
When you have completed that outline we will carry on with the outline below.
NOTE: The faded areas are the parts you have already drawn from the first outline.
Add a new raster layer and select colour 2 (#252323) on the colour chart and start to draw the outline shown below. 
This is the part where it might be easier to open it in PSP.
When you have completed that outline we will carry on with the outline below.
NOTE: The faded areas are the parts you have already drawn from the first 2 outlines.
Add a new raster layer and select colour 3 (#464646) on the colour chart and start to draw the outline shown below.
That's the hard part finished.
Go to Edit - Copy Merged - and then on your pixel girl canvas, paste the hair as a new layer and move into position using the image below to make sure it is in the right place.
Step 13: - Hair Ribbons
Add a new raster layer and name it Ribbons.
Set your foreground to colour 5 (#A21A3D) on the main colour chart and draw out the areas shown in the darker pink below. 
When you have done that change your foreground to colour 6 (#EB3564) on the main colour chart and draw in the areas inside the ribbon outline.
Move into position.

Step 14: - T-Shirt Decoration
Set your Foreground to Black and add a new raster layer called Skull to your girl canvas. 
Select the brush tool with the following settings.
Size: 1 - Hardness, Opacity and Density: 100 
Zoom in to about 800% - 1000% 
Making sure you are on the new layer draw the skull using the outline below.
Move it into position on the girls chest.
Delete the white background layer and merge visible.

Activate your selection tool set to rectangle - feather and tolerance: 0 - antialias: checked.
Draw a selection around each of the girls arms as shown below.
Go to selections - promote selection to layer and deselect.
Rename Arms.
Save your work as a psp file while we work on the keyboards.

Step 15: - Keyboards
You will need the Following Colour Chart. 
Save and then open in PSP.
REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN

We will be be making the keyboards shown below.. The outline below has been resized a lot so you can see it clearly. 
To make this easier I have numbered all pixels over 1.
I have done this count on a yellow background so you can see the lighter colours better.

NOTE:
The darkest colour is colour 1 (#000000), the keyboard legs are colour 2 (#606060), the top 2 lighter lines are colour 2 (white #FFFFFF), the last lighter line is colour 3 (#E5E5E5).
The black keys have 2 pixels between them and are 2 pixels high.

Open a new image 200 x 200 transparent. 
Flood fill with #FFFF00 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% 
Change colours as you go as indicated on the outline chart.
I find it easier to start at the highest point, in this case one of the 4 pixel counts on the top left or right. (You can move the image later using your move tool if you need to). 
Step 16: - Keyboard Fills
When all of your outline is complete, select your magic wand with the following settings and click inside the top of the keyboards to one side of the white areas.
Add a new raster layer called Fill and move this beneath your outline layer in the layer palette.
Select colour 5 (#313030) on your 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: 100
Blur: 3
Shadow colour: Use your main outline. Colour 1 (#000000).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.

Step 17:
Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the front view section of the keyboard.
Select colour 5 (#313030) on your 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: 100
Blur: 3
Shadow colour: Use your main outline. Colour 1 (#000000).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.

Step 18:
Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the left foot of the keyboard.
Select colour 5 (#313030) on your 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: 100
Blur: 3
Shadow colour: Use your main outline. Colour 1 (#000000).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.
Repeat for the right foot of the keyboard.

Step 19:
Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the middle section of the legs shown below.
Select colour 5 (#313030) on your 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: 100
Blur: 3
Shadow colour: Use your main outline. Colour 1 (#000000).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.
Repeat for the right foot of the keyboard.

Step 20:
Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer, hold down your shift key and click inside all the other leg sections.
Select colour 6 (#929292) on your 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: 100
Blur: 2
Shadow colour: Use your leg outline. Colour 2 (#606060).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.

Step 21:
Making sure you are on your outline layer, add a new raster layer and call it detail.
Set your paint brush to size 1 and draw in the areas shown below.
NOTE:
The light grey areas are colour 7 (#CCCDCF), the darker greay area is colour 2 (#606060) and the red is colour 8 (#C61F29) on your colour chart.
I have also lowered the opacity on the other layers so you can see it better.
Delete the yellow background layer and merge all layers of the keyboard visible and copy and paste as a new layer onto your girl canvas.
Move beneath your arms layer and move into position using my tag as a guide.

Head Microphone - Optional
This idea came from Rob who has been kind enough to test all these tut's for me and I liked it so much I put it in.
Add a new layer on your girl canvas. 
Set your foreground to a colour of choice. I used colour 5 (#A21A3D) on the first girl colour chart so it showed up against her hair but if you used other colours for the hair then a dark grey would be good for this.
Using the same brush settings as above draw in the following lines.
I have lowered the opacity on the girl so you can see it better. 
Save as a psp file in case you want to modify it later, then merge visible and save as a png.

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