Island Girl's Country Bench Tutorial

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This Tutorial will help you make the anime girl you see below. This tutorial was written at the request of members from the FlyByNightGraphics Group, of which I am also a member. This group has helped me learn the things I needed to know in order to achieve a creation like this anime girl.

You will Need:
• Paint Shop Pro: HERE
• Eye Candy: HERE (This is for version 3.0 & I believe A legitmate distributor for the freeware version of this plug-in)
• Eye Image: HERE

*Tip: Make a color palette as you go along. Open an image about 100x100 with a white background. Whenever you change colors, spray paint or or airbrush a "splotch" onto your palette. That way you will have the colors for future use in the tutorial

Step 1:
• Open new image 300x500> 16 million colors > Transparent background
•Change foreground color to #F0AC7F and background color to #FFDFD0.
• Click on your shapes tool > rounded rectangle. (Checked: Antialias and Create as Vector. Line Width: 1)
• Draw a square with the following co-ordinates (found in the bottom left hand corner of your screen.

Step 2:
Click your node edit button and then right click in the middle of your canvas. Select "Node Edit". Hover your cursor over the bottom line of your rectangle and holding down your CTRL button, left click. You should now have a node. Add one more so that it looks like the following:

Step 3:

Right click on one of the new nodes and under Node Type select Cusp. If it Cusp is not an option the first time you click on it, go ahead and select asymmetric or symmetric, and then go back and right click again and select cusp. Arrange your nodes so that your rectangle now looks like ex 1, right click in your canvas and select Quit Node Edit. Grab the little lever in the box around your "face" and rotate a little to the left (ex 2). Then Conver to Raster Layer and rename the layer to "Face":

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Step 4:
• Click Selections > Select All > Float
• Click Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout
• Shadow Color for Cutout should be #F0AC7F
• You will apply the cutout effect twice.
.....First Settings: Vertical = 15, Horizontal = 30, Opacity = 100, Blur = 42.5
.....Second Settings: Vertical= 15, Horizontal = -20, Opacity = 100, Blur = 42.5
• Deselect

Step 5:
• Open Eye Image
• Copy
• Paste onto the face as a new layer
• Check example below to see if your image is sort of like it:

Step 6 (You can save here):
• Change foreground color to null and background color to whatever color you wish. I've chosen #9AC55A.
• Select Shapes tool > Ellipse
• Draw a circle within the white of the eye. (*If you need to rotate it some, go ahead)
• Convert to Raster

Step 7:
• Keep foreground at null and change background to black.
• Draw another circle, this time within the green of the eye.

Step 8 (you can save here):
• Turn off Face Layer and the white part of the eye. All you should have left are the green and black circles
• Merge Visible and rename as Eye Color
• Selections > Select All > Float
• Open Eye Candy and click on your water filter. Do NOT deselect!

• Drop Size = 60, Coverage = 100%	• Round drop is checked
• Edge Darkening = -99	• Lighting Direction = 59
• Opacity = 0	• Inclination = 0
• Tinting = any #	• Highlight Brightness = 93
• Refraction = 15	• Highlight Size = 100
• Liquid Color = White	• Hightlight Color = White

Step 9:
• Click your Draw Tool and select Single Line > Size 2
• Foreground color should be White and Background should be Null
• Draw two lines in a small "V" in the bottom left corner of the selected part of the eye. Do NOT deselect
• You should now have this:

Step 10 (you can save here):
• Add a new layer
• Select your paintbrush - Size 4, everything else 100
• Put a dot in the bottom right corner of the eye
• Click Effects > Blur > Gaussian Blur (2)
• Deselect
• Turn off Face Layer > Merge Visible
• Rename Layer to "Eyes"
• Click Edit > Copy
• Click Edit > Paste as New Selection and arrange to the right of existing Eye.
• Check example below to see if you're on track:

Step 11:
• Change foreground color to #C6728D and background color to #EA73A0
• Click on Shapes Tool > Select Teardrop Shape
• Make a fairly large teardrop on your canvas (Ex. 1 easier to work with, we will resize when we're done)
• Node Edit > Drag Top Node down just slightly below the two side nodes. (Ex. 2)
• Drag both arrows from the middle node up to curve at the top
• Drag the side nodes out and down so that they are now slightly below the middle node. (Ex. 3)
• Use arrows to shape into a mouth

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Step 12: (you can save here)
• Using the middle lever, tilt your mouth slightly to the left (Ex. 1)
• Resize mouth to fit the face and place near the chin (Ex. 2)
• Convert to Raster and rename as "Mouth"
• Check examples below to see if you're on track:

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Step 13:
• Click on your draw tool > Select Single Line (antialias and create as vector checked)
• Draw a line through the middle of the mouth
• Move nodes up a little past the corners of the mouth
• Right click on each node > Node Type > Symmetric
• Use the inside arrow to curve the line downward making a smile, Convert to Raster (Rename to "smile"):

Step 14: (you can save here)
• Change foreground to #404040 and leave background at null
• Click Draw > Freehand (only antialias checked and draw a little "u" just above the mouth.

Step 15:
• Arrange everything on the face the way you want it to be.
• Merge Visible > Rename layer as "face"
• Add new layer • Click on Draw > Point to Point Line (foreground = black, background = #F2B288)
• Draw like a little half circle by outlining the top part of the eye with little nodes (Ex. 1)
• Right click on canvas > Quit Node Edit • Click on Draw > Freehand and draw 2-3 little lashes to the side (Ex. 2)
• Duplicate layer, mirror and rotate till it matches the left side. (Ex. 2)
• Merge Visible > Rename to "face"
• SAVE YOUR WORK!

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Ok....we are done with the face! Good work! Get up and stretch or get a drink. Just take a break if you need to. When you come back....we can move on to Page 2

August 9, 2001