Island Girl's Anime Girl Tutorial

Ok...are we ready to press on? Lets do this!

Step 16:
• Foreground should be set at #F0AC7F and background color at #FFDFD0.
• Click on your shapes tool > Ellipse
• Node Edit > Make a shape like the following:

• Convert to Raster Layer, rename "neck" and send this layer below the face.
• Click Selections > Select All > Float
• Click Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout (Vertical = 10, Horizontal = 5, Opacity = 100, Blur = 42.5)

Step 17 (you can save here):
We are now going to work on her shirt:
• Change background to whatever color you prefer and your foreground to a darker shade of that same color.
• Click Shapes Tool > Rounded Rectangle
• Draw rectangle over the neck layer
• Drag the two inside nodes on the top line up slightly

• We need to add 2 sets of nodes, 2 on each side.
• Position them like I have below, bringing the two bottom, outside nodes (green arrows) up and slightly out..
• The two "red" nodes pull slightly out to the side
• The two "blue" nodes are just a tad inside the two nodes above it. Right click on the left one > Node Type > Cusp. Drag the arrow slightly up to create a "sleeve".
• The two nodes with the green will both have cusp type nodes. Pull the top arrows out to the side to create "curves". Convert to Raster, rename "shirt".

Step 18:

• Click Selections > Select All > Float
• Click Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout (settings: Vertical/Horizontal = 3, Opacity = 100, Blur = 30, Shadow = foreground color)

Step 19 (you can save here):
• Change foreground to null and background to #FFDFD0
• Click Shapes Tool > Rectangle
• Draw a rectangle the width of the shirt and drag layer below the shirt layer.
• Set the two bottom node types to symmetric and drag the arrows in to create a "waist".
• Convert to Raster and rename layer "waist"
• Click Selections > Select All > Float
• Activate your cutout filter with same settings but shadow set at #F0AC7F
• Turn off all layers but your shirt and stomach layers and merge visible
• Rename "upperbody"

Step 20:
Let's make some pants!
• Foreground color = #000080, background color = #4245D0
• Click Shapes Tool > Rounded Rectangle
• Draw a rectangle from "waist" downward
• Using node type cusp on different nodes shape hips and pants to your liking
• Convert to Raster and name layer as pants
• Go ahead and decorate your pants. I used Eye Candy 4000 > Weave > Denim
• When you are done decorating your pants Click Draw > Freehand (Size 1, foreground = black, background = null, ONLY antialias checked) Draw lines like I have below to add some detail. If you can't see the details too well, go back to the first page and look at the girl I have there.

Step 21 (You can save here):
• You can decide to add cuffs to your pants or not. Simply add a rounded rectangle to the bottom of each side (make sure you convert to raster)
• Using your node edit you can change the shape of your cuffs.
• Below I added fur to her cuffs using the Eye Candy Plug In
• If you make cuffs. Turn off all layers but your pants and cuffs and merge visible, renaming to pants.
• SAVE YOUR WORK!

Great work! Take another break! When you come back....we can move on to Page 3 | Page 1

August 9, 2001