Drawing a Cute Lion |
| Create a circle using elliptical shape tool. |
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| Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select warp. Select shell lower from the preset warp shapes at the top bar. |
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| Create a rounded rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool. |
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| Duplicate, rotate and place for the both ears. |
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| Using pen tool draw lion’s hair in random zig zag manner. Move this layer below the face layer in layer order in layer palette. |
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| Press Ctrl+T and squeeze down the shape vertically. |
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| Create a rectangle for lion’s body using rectangular shape tool. |
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| Create two ellipses using elliptical shape tool. Rotate and place for the legs on each side of the lion. |
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| Select face and ear layers and merge together. Select body and legs layer and merge together. apply a two pixel stroke to the resulting layers. Apply stroke on hair layer too. |
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| Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool. |
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| From custom shape tool create a talk 3 shape. |
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| Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select rotate 180 degrees. Overlap this shape with rectangle. select and merge both shapes. apply stroke. |
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| Duplicate the layer. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select select flip horizontal. Place both legs as shown in the image below. |
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| select both leg layers and merge together. select eraser tool and remove the upper lines of the legs. |
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| Using brush tool with a 2 pixel width create a shape that connects legs with lions body in a new layer. |
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| Create eyes and nose using elliptical shape tool. |
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| select the nose layer. Enable subtract form shape area form the top bar. Draw a rectangle in upper half of the nose ellipse. |
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| Using brush tool create lips and ear details. |
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| Using pen tool in path mode create an arc shape. |
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| Create a new layer. select brush tool with 2 pixel setting. In path window click on stroke path with brush. Duplicate and rotate to complete lion’s whiskers. |
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| Using pen tool create lion’s tail. Move this layer below all the layers in layer order in layer palette. |
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| Duplicate hair layer. scale it down and place at the end of the tail. |
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Drawing a Cute Lion
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cute & nice . good job
Comment by Ovidiu — May 11, 2006 @ 6:49 am
haha, nice one, thank u men
Comment by baskus — May 11, 2006 @ 5:17 pm
very nice tut man, heres my result i made a background thingie for it hope you like it
http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y209/greendayrulezz/?action=view¤t=lionn.jpg
Comment by Whitey — May 15, 2006 @ 10:50 am
Nice job Whitey!
Comment by Fiery Darts — May 15, 2006 @ 10:53 am
This tutorial is awesome. It taught me so much!! Thank you!
Comment by katey — May 20, 2006 @ 2:04 pm
WONDERFUL!!! thank you you are a expert. =D
Comment by Miguel — June 6, 2006 @ 5:33 pm
excellent!
Comment by trokara — December 6, 2006 @ 6:37 pm