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Step
1 – Prepare
the background
Open
a new psd file 600/500 pixels. Draw a rectangle 600/500 pixels. Go to
Blending Options of this layer and set Gradient Overlay.
This
layer represents a winter night sky.
Step
2 – Add
Snow Dunes
With
the Pen Tool draw a shape like this. The color is #
dbeef3.
Call this layer Snow Dune 1.
Draw
another shape, color # d3ebf1.
Call this layer Snow Dune 2.
Lets
add highlights and shadow to the snow dunes. With the same Pen Tool
draw three shapes like in the picture below.
Step
3 – Draw
the Snowman Body
I
will use the Pen Tool to draw the Snowman Body Layer. The color is #
d3ebf1
and for the stroke color I’ve chosen the color #
b6d6dd.
Step
4 – Draw
the Snowman Scarf
Now
I will draw a scarf for the snowman. I will use the Pen Tool. The
scarf is composed by three layers as you can see in the image below.
Start with scarf 1, than 2 and 3.
Go
to Blending Options for all three parts of the scarf and do the
following settings:
But
first you need to download those patterns from here.
Save them and than Load Patterns.
Step
5 – Draw
the Snowman Hat
Instead
of a hat I will draw a bucket on the snowman’s head.
Set
the Foreground Color # abb3b6.
With the Ellipse Tool draw a circle. Go to Edit – Transform –
Rotate ( rotate angle 10,9). Duplicate this layer and scale it to 80%
on width and height. Move it upper.
Now
with the Pen Tool draw a shape between the two ellipses like in the
picture below. The order of drawing is 1, 2, 3.
I
have seted the opacity to 60 % to see all the layers.
Select
all three layers, right click and Rasterize Layers.
Select
Ellipse 3 and Ellipse 2 and duplicate layers. Add a stroke to this
layers, size 1 and color # 728288.
Select those layers duplicated and merge layers. Call this layer
Borders Layer.
With
Eraser Tool delete the bottom part of the two ellipses so that you
obtain only 2 dark lines.
Press
CTRL and the Thumbnail of the layer Ellipse 3 and go to Shape 1 and
press delete.
Select
Ellipse 2 and Shape 1 and merge them. Call the new layer Bucket
Layer.
Press
CTRL and the Thumbnail of the Snowman Body layer than return to
Ellipse 3 and press delete. Add to Bucket and Ellipse 3 a stroke size
1 and color # 728288.
You
should now have something like this :
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