 Software: Photo Impact 6 Author Polly Morris Home Page: Sundog Creations Title: Rainy Day Bear Skill Level: Advanced |
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Description: Should have a good working knowledge of Photo Impact. | ||
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The Hat With the ellipse tool , color yellow, draw an ellipse shape. Paint on edges. Make sure your paint tool is set to black , size 1. Take the burn tool , wide burn, and burn a bit around the edges. Rotate to the left 25 degrees. With the paint tool, set on chalk , choose splatter from the dropdown menu, color black,transparency 70. Go over it with this so it looks like texture. 
Now to make the top of the hat. Path drawing tool, ellipse, color yellow, draw an ellipse.Go to the path edit tool and move the node on the bottom, up a bit to make it flat and move the top node up a bit to form a bit of a peak. Paint on edges, make sure the settings sre the same as you had for the brim of the hat. Use the paint tool , set to chalk and splatter, same as before. Take the paint tool , size 1, color black, and click on mode( paint as object mode) and make sure you have the top of the hat active. Draw two lines starting at the top center of the hat. It should look like this when you are finished. 
The Bear Path drawing tool , circle, color R=183 G=119 B=13, Draw a circle.Now make a smaller circle for the nose. Put them together like this. 
Combine as single object. Paint on edges, and then burn with the burn tool . With the paint tool , set to chalk and splatter, same as before:) add some texture . For the nose make a small ellipse , color black, 3D. Make a white 2D ellipse for the eye, make another one , color black and smaller. Put it on top of the white one. Combine as single object. While the head is active, use the paint tool, paint as object and draw a mouth for your bear.Combine as single object.Place the head behind the hat. It should now look like this. 
With the spline tool, color yellow, draw the shape of a triangle for the raincoat, paint on edges, burn with the burn tool , and add some splatter with the paint tool.Same as you did with the hat. 
With the spline tool , make a collar. Paint on edges, and splatter it with the paint tool. You can add a drop shadow to this, so it will stand out a bit. to do this , right click and select shadow. When the window opens select the fifth box over. 
Duplicate the collar and send it to the back of the stack. so it looks like this. 
You can add some stitching to the collar. Take the paint tool, color black , size 1, straight lines, and click on the mode button. Make sure the collar is active before clicking on the mode button. now make some short lines along the bottom of the collar. Now for the buttons. Take the path drawing tool, color black , custom shape, half circle, and draw, three buttons. Place them on the edge of the raincoat. Like this. 
To make the sleeve, use the spline tool , color yellow, and draw a triangle .Paint on edges, burn the edges with the burn tool, and use the paint tool set on chalk , and splatter. Same as you did for the coat and the hat.Add a drop shadow, like you did for the collar.You can add some stitching like you did with the collar , to the bottom of the sleeve. You should have somthing like this now. 
For the pocket, take the path drawing tool and draw a triangle, then a rectangle.You may have to play around with the sizes to get them to line up good. When you have them lined up, combine as single object. Paint on edges, burn , and splatter same as before. You can add stitching like you did with the sleeve. Place it on the coat, and rotate to the left 15 degrees. Should look like this . 
To do the paws take the path drawing tool , ellipse, same color as the bears head.Draw an ellipse. With the path edit tool, push the nodes in on the sides a bit and the top node down, and the bottom node up. Paint on edges, burn the edges with the burn tool , and with the paint tool , chalk, and splatter. With the paint tool, size 1, color black, freehand, click on mode, draw some line on the edge of the paw. Should look like this. 
Place it under the sleeve with just a bit of the paw sticking out. Draw another ellipse for the ear. With the path edit, move the bottom node up to make the bottom flat. Paint on edges, burn edges, and with the paint tool, chalk, and splatter. Rotate to the left 15 degrees, and place on the hat. Like this. 
The Boots. With the path drawing tool draw an ellipse. With the path edit tool move the bottom node up and the top node up. Make a rectangle( this will be the top of your boot ) and with the transform tool set on distort, pull the left node out a bit to the left. Merge both as single object. Paint on edges, and burn with the burn tool. Make a rectangle , color black , for the heal of the shoe. Merge this with the shoe. Take the path drawing tool , color black , round rectangle, make two small rectangles for the boot straps. Place them on the boot, and with the paint tool, paint on object mode, draw two lines from the retangle to the side of the boot. Do this for the other strap also. Merge as single object Your boot should look like this. 
With the path drawing tool , draw a rectangle for the leg. Color same as the bears head. Place it behind the boot.Merge the boot and the leg as single object and place it behind the raincoat, with just a tiny bit of the leg showing. Right click and duplicate and sent this to the back, move it ahead a bit. Your bear should now look like this. 
For the other arm , with the spline tool draw a rectangle. Paint on edges, burn with burn tool and with the paint tool, set to chalk and splatter, add some texture to the sleeve. Place it behind the bear. Like this. Now , the same way you made the first paw, make another one and rotate it until it is up sideways. 
For the umbrella , with the path drawing tool draw a long skinny rectangle. make a diamond shape and put it on the top of the rectangle to form a peak. Combine as single object. Go to custom shape and choose decoration 7. With the eraser tool , erase everything except the part that looks like the end of an umbrella. Like this. 
Combine all parts of the umbrella as single object. Paint on edges, burn edges,. For the top custom shape arch 2, color blue. Make it fairly large. Take the tranform tool , perspective, and make it wider on the bottom. Now take the path edit tool and add a node on the bottom , in the middle and push it up a bit. Paint on edges, and burn around the edge. With the paint tool,freehand , make two lines down from the middle, color red. Combine as single object. Move the handle of the umbrella behind this and combine all the parts of the umbrella. Place the umbrella behind the hand, select all objects and combine as single object. Now all we need is a little rain:) With the path drawing tool, custom shape , select the raindrop shape 3D.In the Easy Pallet, material gallery, select ,glass, blue 2. Make some drops coming off of the umbrella, and the raincoat. You're all finished. :) Any questions , just email me.
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