Artistic Passion Tutorials

You Brighten My Day

Supplies Needed

PSP
A Bow of choice
Chelle’s Mask 81 available from her site.
Thanks Chelle!
My Supplies
These supplies were made by me, please do not pass them around.

Lets begin!

1. Open my supplies in PSP.
Open up a new canvas. Mine was 600 x 600.
Make your background colour #fce8e2, foreground null.
Using your circle preset shape, draw out a circle around 150 x 150.
Objects – Align – Center in canvas.
Convert to Raster Layer.

2. Draw out another circle around 50 x 50.
Convert to raster layer.
Place it at the side of the first circle you drew so it looks like an ear.
Once happy with the position: Layers – Arrange – Move down.
Duplicate this layer. Image – Mirror.
You should now have 2 ears!
Merge your 2 ear layers together.

3. Choose a colour for your petals.
I used #cb5b73.
With your bigger circle layer the active layer draw out 2 eyes with your brush tool.

4. Still on your bigger circle layer, Selections – All.
Selections – Float, Selections – Defloat.
Layer – New Raster Layer.
With your brush tool on the following settings:

Draw 2 dots on the cheeks.

Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur – 15.
Selections – Select none.

5. Make the colour you chose for your flower the background colour and make the foreground null.
Click on your preset shape tool.
Look for a flower preset.
I used the one named ‘flower’, although this is up to you.
I’ve included one in the supplies for you to recolour if you don’t have one.
Draw out your flower.
Objects – Align – Center in canvas.
Convert to raster layer.

6. Still on your flower layer:
Selections – All, Selections – Float, Selections – Defloat.
Selections – Modify – Contract – 15.
[Do not deselect until I say]
Layers – New Raster Layer.
Floodfill with the skin colour.
Activate your brush tool again and use the ‘petal’ colour.
Layers – New Raster Layer.
Draw out a couple of dots at the edge of the skin coloured fill.

Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur – 15.
Effects – Texture Effects – Weave with the following settings:

Apply it twice.
Layers – Merge Down.
Selections – Modify – Contract – 15.
Hit the delete key on your keyboard.
Selections – Select None.

7. Merge this layer down to your flower layer.
Using your magic want, select the outer coloured petal.

Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise with the following settings:

Selections – Select None.
Click on the inner petals.
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow with the following settings:

8. Back to the ‘face’ lol.
Choose which coloured hair you’d like.
I chose the ‘blonde’ hair.
Copy and paste it as a new layer.
Place it at the top of the face.
Give it a drop shadow of choice.

9. Merge the hair to the face.
On the face layer Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow with the following settings: