Rose is easy
... er, I mean making this icon of Rose is easy *shifty eyes*. Anywho, I'll show you how to make this icon in only 7 layers. PS6
We begin with this pannel from one of Hiromu Arakawa's hilarious omakes.
I cropped it down to 100x100 and went ahead and removed the characters via the paintbrush tool on white (#FFFFFF).
Duplicate your background, delete the original, and put a new layer flood filled with white beneath your image of Rose. That way, when you set the drawing's layer to multiply, something will be underneath it. Go ahead and set Rose's layer to multiply.
Slide this texture by inxsomniax underneath Rose's layer so you end up with this:
So Rose will show up better, go ahead and create a new layer and using a hard brush (somewhere in the 5px range) and the color white, fill her in.
We'll do something similar with the dust, but since I wanted it to be dusty (imagine that), I took a soft 21px brush and lowered the brush's opacity to 50%. On your first sweep, you'll want to fill in all of the dust. On the second sweep, only the bottom half, on the final sweep do only the very bottom. Make sense?
Now to color Rose in. Another new layer and you basically do the same thing as you did the first time, only with color. Aw look, it's just like you're in Kindergarten again.
Believe it or not, the text is actually the most complicated part of this tutorial. It reads 'tap dance'. The font is Futura Md BT, 22pt., black (#000000), and bold. Now here's what makes it different. The tracking is -50, and the Vertical Scale is 200%. The layer is then set to 38%. I then drug the text layer behind both color and white rose so that it looks like she's standing in front of the text. And that's it!
Layer order for those interested.
If you liked this tutorial, or you like to make tutorials with illustrated images, check out my community illustrated_tut. It'd be great to see some activity over there.
We begin with this pannel from one of Hiromu Arakawa's hilarious omakes.
I cropped it down to 100x100 and went ahead and removed the characters via the paintbrush tool on white (#FFFFFF).
Duplicate your background, delete the original, and put a new layer flood filled with white beneath your image of Rose. That way, when you set the drawing's layer to multiply, something will be underneath it. Go ahead and set Rose's layer to multiply.
Slide this texture by inxsomniax underneath Rose's layer so you end up with this:
So Rose will show up better, go ahead and create a new layer and using a hard brush (somewhere in the 5px range) and the color white, fill her in.
We'll do something similar with the dust, but since I wanted it to be dusty (imagine that), I took a soft 21px brush and lowered the brush's opacity to 50%. On your first sweep, you'll want to fill in all of the dust. On the second sweep, only the bottom half, on the final sweep do only the very bottom. Make sense?
Now to color Rose in. Another new layer and you basically do the same thing as you did the first time, only with color. Aw look, it's just like you're in Kindergarten again.
Believe it or not, the text is actually the most complicated part of this tutorial. It reads 'tap dance'. The font is Futura Md BT, 22pt., black (#000000), and bold. Now here's what makes it different. The tracking is -50, and the Vertical Scale is 200%. The layer is then set to 38%. I then drug the text layer behind both color and white rose so that it looks like she's standing in front of the text. And that's it!
Layer order for those interested.
If you liked this tutorial, or you like to make tutorials with illustrated images, check out my community illustrated_tut. It'd be great to see some activity over there.