This tutorial was written by Monti on February 28th 2008. It's concept is copyrighted to Monti. Any creation you make from my ideas are yours. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own.

For this tutorial you will need

Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop

The Following Colour Charts.
Left click and when they open right click then save as, then open in PSP.

Hair Colour Charts
You only need to save the colour you want for the hair on your girl.

Ok we are ready to start.
This is a long tutorial so make sure you have a drink handy to keep you going.

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN

You can drag this arrow down the page with you to keep your place in the tut.
Script provided by Dynamic Drive.

Step 1:

We will be be making the girl shown above. The outlines below have been resized a lot so you can see them clearly.
We will be doing the outline in 3 parts, the main outline, the hair and the face. We will be starting with the main outline.
To make this easier I have numbered all pixels over 1.

Open a new image 120 x 170 transparent.
Select the brush tool with the following settings.
Size = 1
Hardness, Opacity and Density = 100
Zoom in to about 800% - 1000%
Set your foreground to colour 1 on the outline colour chart (#CA8368) and start at the middle left of your canvas.
You can use your mover tool to move it later if you need to. Start with the chin.

When you get to her towel change your foreground to colour 3 on the outline colour chart (#5F609B) or a colour of your choice and draw in the towel outline shown in outline above.

When you get to the scales change your foreground to colour 5 on the outline colour chart (#808080) and draw in the scales outline shown above.
Once the outline above is done change your foreground to red and draw in the 3 red pixels on the scales shown in the outline.

Step 2 Hair

Step 3 Face

For her eyebrows and nose use colour 1 (#CA8368) on your colour chart.
For the eyelashes use colour 5 (#000000) on your colour chart.
For the eye colour use two colours of your choice. I used colour 7 (#6190E3) and colour 8 (#3A5693) on your colour chart.
Add one white (#FFFFFF) pixel in each corner of the eyes.
For the bottom lip use colour 2 (#D36C7F) on your colour chart.
For the top lip use colour 3 (#E4909E) on your colour chart.
Change to colour 4 (#EAA9B4) on your colour chart and add one pixel underneath the bottom lip in the center.

Add a new raster layer.
Select your paint brush and colour 3 (#E4909E) on your colour chart.
Change the paintbrush size to 2 - shape round.
Click once on the face so you end up with the image shown below.

Go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - 1.
Move this layer below the face layer. Duplicate and mirror.

Step 4

Select your magic wand with the following settings and click inside the Head.

Select colour 2 (#F8D0C1) on your girl colour chart and flood fill this selection.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical= 0
Horizontal= 0
Opacity = 70
Blur = 9
Shadow colour = Use your head outline.(#CA8368)
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.

Select your magic wand with the same settings and click inside her arm and neck area.
Fill with colour 2 on the colour chart.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical= 0
Horizontal= 0
Opacity = 70
Blur = 8
Shadow colour = Use your arm outline.(#CA8368)
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.

Select your magic wand with the same settings and click inside her left leg.
Fill with colour 2 on the colour chart.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical= 0
Horizontal= 0
Opacity = 70
Blur = 8
Shadow colour = Use your leg outline.(#CA8368)
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.

REPEAT for the right leg.

Step 5

Select your magic wand with the same settings and click inside the large area of the towel on the left.
Fill with colour 4 (#C9CAE1) on the colour chart or a colour of your choice.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical= 0
Horizontal= 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 10
Shadow colour = Use your towel outline.
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
DO NOT Deselect.

Add noise - uniform and monochrome checked - 6%
Deselect.

Select your magic wand with the same settings and click inside the small area of the towel on the right.
Fill with colour 4 (#C9CAE1) on the colour chart or a colour of your choice.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical= 0
Horizontal= 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 6
Shadow colour = Use your towel outline.
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
DO NOT Deselect.

Add noise - uniform and monochrome checked - 6%
Deselect.

Step 5

Select your magic wand with the same settings and click inside all 3 sections of the scales as shown below.

Select your magic wand with the same settings and click inside the front of the scales.
Fill with colour 6 (#C0C0C0) on the colour chart.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical= 0
Horizontal= 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 4
Shadow colour = Use your scales outline (#808080).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.

Select your magic wand with the same settings and click inside both sides of the dial of the scales shown below.

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