Artistic Passion Tutorials

It’s All In The Heart

Supplies Needed

Tube of choice
Font of choice [I used Girls Are Weird]
Mask of Choice
Ribbons/Bows of choice
Doodles/Embellishments of choice
Scrap paper/overlay of choice [optional]
Penta.com – Color Dot
MuRa’s Meister – Copies

Artwork © Rion Vernon.
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Lets begin!

1. Open a new image 600×600. Floodfill with white.
Choose a colour from your tube.
Using your preset shape tool, draw out a heart.
Objects – Align – Center in canvas.
Convert to Raster Later.
Duplicate this layer.
Image – Mirror.
Place it so the two hearts meet.

2. Using a lighter colour from your tube [or darker, depending which colour you chose originally] draw out a small circle using your preset shape tool.
Objects – Align – Center in canvas.
You can apply a slight drop shadow if you wish to, but this is up to you.
Effects – MuRa’s Meister Copies with the following settings:

3. Make your double heart layer the active layer.
Selections – Select All.
Selections – Float.
Selections – Defloat.
Selections – Invert.
Make your circle layer the active layer and hit the delete key on your keyboard.
Selections – Select None.

4. Merge the heart and circle layers together.
You can apply a blend mode if you like to the circle layer or reduce the opacity if you think it’s too much.

5. Duplicate your heart layer.
On the bottom heart layer
Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur – 15.
Effects – Penta.com – Color Dot with the following settings

6. Give your main heart [the top one] a drop shadow of choice.
Add your ribbons and/or embellishments.
Add your doodles.

7. Make the bottom layer active.
Layers – New Raster Layer.
Floodfill with a colour from your tube or a scrap paper.
Apply your mask. I lowered the opacity to 70 on this layer.

8. Add your tube. Give it a drop shadow of choice.

9. Write out your name in a font of choice.
To get the effect on mine, I did my name twice using 2 colours, one darker than the other.
I placed the darker one underneath, but so you could just see it slightly.
It gave the effect of a drop shadow.

10. Add the artist copyrights and your taggers mark and you’re done!

Thank you for trying out my tutorial.

Here’s another example!

Layout and Tutorial ©Julie [magic] written on February 21st 2008.
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