This tutorial was written on January 29th 2003 and © by MaryN aka Lady Oz. You may make a copy of this tutorial or print it out for your own personal use ONLY. Do not send through emails nor put on your own site, or CD's but if you would like to LINK to my tutorials please do so. Also what you create belongs to you, I only own this tutorial and wish it to stay on this page. *s*.
Part 2 of the Lady Cow! *s*
If you are happy with the shapes, positions, sizes, colours etc of all of your parts, then convert them all to Raster layer. You can now decorate your cow in any way that you want...this is briefly how I did mine...which was done in a great haste! LOL
What I did was to merge visible, the head, ears, eyes, nose mark, mouth and ears and renamed it 'Head'
Next I merged visible the arms and hands...renamed it 'arms'
Then the legs and slippers...renamed it 'legs'.
I then turned off the cows dress parts so that I could work on the shading of the body
With the
Retouch tool...Darken RGB...these settings:
Starting with the 'Belly' layer, I shaded in the areas that I thought needed darkening...
I and then used the lighten tool with these settings:
Once I had done all the body parts, I used the smudge brush for the edges of the nose mark and the inner ears, all the spots and anywhere else that I thought it needed it. I also used the
Lasso tool to get rid of the top part of the arm....where it is attached to the body.
Next I used the 'soften' brush around the black outlines...both these brushes were with small sizes and reduced opacity and hardness. For the tail I added a slight EC 4 Jiggle (see above settings)... after adding a few brown spots with the brush...then I used the smudge tool to fan out the end of the tail....Here's mine so far. *g*
Save as a PSP file!
Now for the clothes...select the bottom layer of the tutu, add the Eye Candy 4 Jiggle filter...these settings.
Lower the Opacity to 95
Use the darken, lighten and smudge tools to add some shade and highlights where the folds would be and smudge in slightly.
Select the tutu 2 layer and do the same Jiggle.... shading etc...but lower the Opacity to 75
Now select the tutu 3 layer and add the same Jiggle...shading etc... and lower the Opacity to 55
Layer Visibility I clicked off all layers except these three and merged visible.
Duplicated this new layer and moved it up slightly on the original layer...using the
Deformation Tool to squeeze in the top to give a full skirt look.
Lastly I selected her top and applied Fantastic Machine filter....then used the retouch tools for the folds etc.
Don't forget to save as a tube!!
That's my lady cow finished.. now onto the bull. *s*
Save as tube!
Now onto making her dancing partner. *s*
