Di's Delights PSP7 Knitted Teddy Tutorial

PSP7 Knitted Teddy

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For this tutorial you will need - PSP 7 and a good general knowledge of PSP and vectors, this is not for a novice, and this fill, right click and save as.

Yours will have your own individual look as you will be doing all the drawing. Do not expect to get an exact copy as we all have our own style of drawing.

Here is a key to the short cuts used

Ctrl+A = Select all
Ctrl+F = Floats selection
Ctrl+Shft+F = Defloats selection
Ctrl+D = Select none
Ctrl+C = Copy
Ctrl+L = Pastes as new layer

1. Open the knit-fill.jpg to use as the pattern fill. Null the foreground. Set the background to pattern fill. With the paint dropper click on the background pattern. A pattern dialogue box will open.

Click on the drop down arrow to open up the pattern palette, scroll to the top and select the knit-fill. Use a at a scale of 100%, angle 0.

Open a new image 200x200. Flood fill with the knit-fill. Effects - Geometric Effects - Circle. Crtl+A, Crtl+F, selections - modify - contract by 25. Ctrl+C to copy. We are going to use this for the teddy's head. Ctrl+D. Keep this image open as we are going to use it again.

2. Open a new image 350x450. Ctrl+L, this will paste the selection you just made as a new layer. Rename this layer head. Move the head to the top of the canvas, leaving a gap so you have room for his ears.

3. Go back to the circular image. With the selection tool

circle, feather 0, antialias checked, make a small selection towards the top as shown. Ctrl+C. Go back to your teddy image. Ctrl+L. Rename the layer to ear. Move the ear to the left side of the head. Layer - Arrange - Move down. Image - Rotate to the left by 45 degrees. Duplicate the ear layer. Image - Mirror. Move the right ear into place. Make the head layer active.

Using the magic wand

click the surrounding area of the head, selections - invert. You should now have the marching ants around the head. Go to one of the ear layers and hit delete. Do the same for the other ear layer. You shouldn't see any difference to your image.

4. Create a new vector layer named body. With the preset shapes tool

ellipse, antialias and vector checked draw out on oval shape. Click the object selector

right click the shape and choose node edit from the menu. Add a node below the left and right nodes. Pull them in a tad. Click the bottom node and pull out the control arms out.

5. Create a new layer named leg. With the preset shape tool at the same settings draw out an oval. Rotate slightly to the right. Add a node to the right of the top node. Move this down and to the right. Play with the control arms, lengthening or shortening to give the leg some shape. Telling you exactly what I did is not easy so hopefully this screen shot will help. This screen shot does not show the body because it shows the individual nodes more clearly.

6. Layers - Duplicate. Image - Mirror. Rotate the leg slightly to the right and play the nodes if you feel the need.

7. Create a new layer named arm. Use the preset shape tool to draw out an oval. rotate it round slightly to the left. Edit the nodes. All I did at this point was to lengthen the control arms of the nodes shown. Layers - Duplicate. Image - Mirror. Rotate the arm down and alter the nodes if you wish.

This is what you should have so far.

If you are happy with the look of your teddy convert the vector layers to raster. We are now going to work our way through the layers colouring and giving each part some shape.

8. Make the head layer active. Crtl+A, Ctrl+F, Ctrl+Shft+F. Effects - Geometric Effects - Cylinder Vertical at 25%. Ctrl+D. In the layer palette, lock

the transparency of the layer. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout at the settings shown. Colours - Colourise. Play with the hue and saturation to give any colour you wish. Unlock

the transparency of the layer.

    Cutout
    Vertical -3
      Horizontal 3
      Opacity 100
      Blur 30
      Colour Black

9. Repeat step 8 for the legs, arms and body. You may need to use Cylinder Horizontal for the arms, depending on their angle. For the ears do not apply the geometric effect and change the blur of the cutout to 20. Change the horizontal of the cutout to -3 for the left ear.

10. Ok, lets give him a face, we'll start with the eyes. Open a new image 100x100. create a new layer named button. Null the foreground and set the background to a colour that compliments the colour of your teddy. With the preset shape tool, ellipse, antialias checked. Start at the top left hand corner, hold Shft and draw out a circle. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel at the shown settings. Ctrl+A, Ctrl+F, Ctrl+Shft+F, selections - modify - contract by 15. Apply the inner bevel again but change the angle to 135. Ctrl+D.

Duplicate the layer. Image - Resize by 13%, unchecked all layers. Duplicate this resized layer 3 times. These are going to make the holes so move them into place as shown. Ctrl+A, Ctrl+F, Ctrl+Shft+F. Make the button layer active, delete. Repeat this for all the duplicated layers. Delete all the duplicated layers, you should now just have your button complete with holes.

11. Create a new layer. Set the foreground to black, null the background. With the draw tool

freehand line, width 4, antialias checked, draw a cross so that it overlaps the holes. Make the button layer active. Ctrl+A, Ctrl+F, Ctrl+Shft+F. make the cross layer active, with the eraser

get rid of the overlapping thread. Ctrl+D. Marge layers visible. Resize all layers by 30%. Copy. Go to your teddy image and paste as new layer. Move the button to use as one of his eyes. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow at the shown setting. Duplicate the layer and move into place.

     Drop Shadow
      V & H 1
        Opacity 100
        Blur 5
        Colour Black

12. Create a new layer. With the freehand draw tool as before draw in his smile and then about 3 lines for his nose. Apply the same drop shadow as before. Merge all layers visible and you're done.

Teddies come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and I hope this tut has given you the inspiration to come up with your very own version.

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