Credit: Please give credit to Roxane of Roxane's Dreamland at http://roxanesdreamland.com  qui nous donne la permission d'utiliser son contour.

And as always in my case, our Expert Resident colourist has added the final touch to the colouring. Thank you Vivi!

Please note that with the result of this tutorial, you can:
 make a premade graphic, a sig tag, part of a web set, etc..
but you cannot use the final image to give it away or sell as a tube..or to create outlines/ lineart for others to use..

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Open Paint Shop Pro. We will first draw the outline. Open a transparent image in PSP 100x150. Zoom in several times. Then draw the outline in black using your paintbrush, size 1. Both sides are identical, so draw the left side then click on the layer in your layer palette, choose duplicate and then Image >Mirror. You have 2 identical copies, position properly and then  go to Layers and merge visible.  

 

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Time to colour in the doll. I used 4 different shades for the skin, 4 shades for the clothes from black to light grey. For the apron, 3 different shades of the same colour. And for the hair, 4. Use Palette Maker to create your different colours! Then colour as below.

 

Time to do the cheeks. Use the Magic Wand to select the face, set the tolerance at 100. Then add a layer and with your paintbrush, size 6 or more, colour red, add a big blob on each cheek. Then Effects > Gaussian Blur of 2.00 and if necessary, lower the opacity of this layer on your layer palette.  I actually do one cheek and then duplicate the layer and then Mirror it so my two cheeks are identical.



And that's it. The first doll is done. Save it as a PSP file in case you want to colour it again in different colours. It's very easy. You just click on one colour with your magic wand, go to selections > Modify > Select Similar and then replace the colour with another one using your Fill tool. You do this with all the colours. See I got a bit carried away and did mine in several colours!

To save as a gif, open your file in Animation Shop and look at the settings here: Transparence

If you fancy it, you can follow me to the next page to now do the male version of this. Follow me!

Martine
November 2nd 2006

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me