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This tutorial, including all drawings
and text, is entirely my own work. It is not to be uploaded
to another site for others to work from, nor is it to be passed
through email or online groups. If you feel that someone may
be interested in trying it out, please provide them with a link
to it here at this site, where it belongs. If you'd like to
use it as a group lesson, I'd be honoured, but would appreciate
you letting me know
first. Thank you!
You'll need PSP 6 or 7 if you prefer to do
your own drawing with vectors. PSP 5 will likely work
if you choose to use the zipped petal graphics. You can
download them here.
You'll also need WinZip to unzip the petals.
You can download a copy here.
Step 1
If you're using the zipped petals, shift D to
copy , and close the original. Flood fill each petal with (or
colorize to) a very pale shade of a color you like. Here's the
color palette I used. You're welcome to use it if you'd
like. I also used white, but it doesn't show up on
here...didn't think of that! LOL
I found it easier to do some of the shading if I
had the entire rose showing. It enabled me to see how far to
take the shading when there was another petal on top of the one on
which I was working.
Step 2
Once you've flood filled or colorized each of
the separate petals, we'll start with Petal 1.
Click inside the petal with your magic wand,
then go to selections-->modify-->expand by 1. Keep
selected, and add a new layer. Do not deselect.
Use your airbrush (the little spray can on your
toolbar) with the settings below,
and spray some color into your petal.
Start at the bottom, where the petal joins the rest of the flower,
making it darker and getting lighter as you advance toward the outer
edge, as below. Do not
deselect.
Step 3
Now go to 'image-->blur-->gaussian blur,
and set it to about 5. This softens your shading. If you
find that it doesn't look as soft as you'd like, hit undo, and try a
higher setting on your gaussian blur until you find the look that
suits you. Keep in mind, though, that at some point, the
shading color may just dissipate if you use too high a setting on
the blur.
Step 4
Now that you have the shading done, go to your
retouch tool (the little hand with a pointing finger), and use the
smudge brush set as follows:
Smudge small wisps of darker color into the
light parts of your petal. When you want larger areas
pulled into it, raise the size of your smudge tool to 5 or 6.
You should have something like the image below when you're done,
although you may prefer more than I have here. Remember,
though, that flower petals are not flat...they tend to follow
round lines, so keep your motion with the smudge tool curved
to follow the outline of what you're coloring at the time.
In this case, I want the petal to curve out away from the flower,
so I'm smudging in a rounded motion to the left, then curving
in toward the inside as I reach the part of the petal that curves
inward. Use lighter colours
on the parts of the petal that would be more exposed to light,
such as the top edges of the petals, and anywhere that they
curve outward. Darker colors should be used for areas that are
in close proximity to the other parts of the rose, as if they're
shadowed by the other petals, and at the bottom of each petal
where it joins the other petals.
Make all layers invisible except the line
drawing layer and the coloring layer for this petal, then go
to layers...merge...merge visible.
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