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Drawing a Duck

Filed under: Drawing — Fiery Darts @ 8:13 am

Drawing a Duck

Start by creating a circle using elliptical shape tool.

Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select warp.

Adjust the nodes to get the result as shown in the image below.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.

Using pen tool draw the neck and face for the duck. Follow along the images below for exact shape.

Create additional shape to add detail to the duck.

Using pen tool create wing of the duck.

Create feet of the duck using pen tool.

Create eye of the duck using pen tool.

Select wing layer. From layer menu select layer style>>create layers.

Select both the layers and press Ctrl+E to merge.

Select eraser tool and erase the top left portion of the wing.

Similarly remove the stroke from other areas.

Add details to the feet and other body parts.

Create a new layer. Select a 2 pixel solid brush. Select stroke path with brush in path window.

Create a new layer. Create a circular selection using elliptical marquee tool. Fill the selection with a radial gradient.

Press Ctrl+T and squeeze it vertically.

Ctrl+Click the layer to get the selection.

Press Ctrl+Alt+D to feather the selection. Feather the selection by 20 pixels.

Press Ctrl+Shift+I to inverse the selection and delete the outer selection several times.

Apply a light gradient to the background.

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Sound Graph Animation

Filed under: Drawing — Fiery Darts @ 7:40 am

Sound Graph Animation

Start by creating a rectangle.

Duplicate and place below.

Create a tower of such rectangles.

Select all layers and press Ctrl+G to group. Duplicate the group.

Using rectangular marquee tool create a selection covering all the shapes.

Fill it with a gradient.

Change the layer mode to hue.

Create another selection and fill with a new gradient.

Change layer mode to color dodge.

Hide a random number of rectangles from each group. Open animation window. Let this be your first frame of the animation.

Duplicate the frame for second frame, unhide some of the hidden rectangles and hide some of the unhidden rectangles.

Repeat the step to create more frames.

Preview the animation by pressing play button in animation window. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized GIF animation.

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Creating and Animating A Jack In the Box

Filed under: Drawing — Fiery Darts @ 8:49 am

Creating and Animating A Jack In the Box

We’ll start by creating a 3d box. Create a rectangle in a new layer.

Press Ctrl+T. Right click and select perspective.

Duplicate the layer and fill with black color. Move the layer below the first layer.

Create another rectangle. Using similar steps create the other sides of the box.

Duplicate this layer and fill with black color. Place it on the other side. Move this layer below all layers.

Create top lid of the box similarly.

Press Ctrl+T. Right click and select warp. Adjust nodes and handles to create a shape like this.

Fill this shape with orange color.

Duplicate this layer. Fill it with brown color. Move this layer below previous layer. Move this shape towards right a few pixels.

Apply stroke layer style to all box layers.

Using custom shape tool create some cool flowers and patterns on front sides of the box.

Our box is complete. Now we’ll create jack. USing elliptical shape tool create a few ellipses and place as shown.

Create eyes, nose lips etc. using 2 pixel brush. Create 2 springy antenna and place on top of the head.

Create arm and hand using pen tool.

Duplicate the arm layer. Flip horizontally and place it for the other arm.

Our jack and box, both are done. Link and merge all jack layers together. Time to animate jack. Open animation window. Select first frame and in layer window hide jack layer.