This tutorial was written by Monti on September 19th 2009. 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

The Following Colour Chart.
Left click and when it opens right click then save as, then open in PSP.

Ok we are ready to start.

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 Lion shown below.
The outline below have been resized a lot so you can see it clearly.
To make this easier I have numbered all pixels over 1.

Open a new image 200 x 200 transparent.
Flood fill with white so you can see what you are working on. Delete this layer at the end.
Turn the grid on so you can see the single pixels by going to View - Grid - then View - Change Grid, Guide and Snap Properties. Under Current Image Settings change the Horizontal and Vertical grids to 1.
Add a new Raster Layer and name Outline.
Select the brush tool with the following settings.
Size = 1
Hardness, Opacity and Density = 100
Zoom in to about 800% - 1000%
I find it easier to start the highest point, in this case his mane. (You can move the image later using your move tool if you need to).

Set your foreground to colour 3 on the colour chart (#623606) and start drawing the Lion outline changing your foreground to colour 1 (#D8A24E) on your colour chart for the head and body outline and to colour 5 (#000000) for the face details.

Step 2

When all of your outline is complete, click on the outline layer to activate it.
Select your magic wand with the following settings and click inside the lions head.

Add a new raster layer called Fills and move this beneath your outline layer in the layer palette.

Select colour 2 (#E8CB9E) on your Lion colour chart, click on the Fill layer to activate it and flood fill that selection.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
V + H = 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 15
Shadow colour = Use your Lion outline. Colour 1 (#D8A24E).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise - Gaussian: Checked - Noise Amount: 3 - Monochrome: Checked.
Deselect.

Step 3

Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the body area.
Select colour 2 (#E8CB9E) on your Lion colour chart, click on the Fill layer to activate it and flood fill that selection.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
V + H = 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 15
Shadow colour = Use your Lion outline. Colour 1 (#D8A24E).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise - Gaussian: Checked - Noise Amount: 3 - Monochrome: Checked.
Deselect.

Step 4

Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the left leg.
Select colour 2 (#E8CB9E) on your Lion colour chart, click on the Fill layer to activate it and flood fill that selection.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
V + H = 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 13
Shadow colour = Use your Lion outline. Colour 1 (#D8A24E).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise - Gaussian: Checked - Noise Amount: 3 - Monochrome: Checked.
Deselect.
Repeat this for the right leg making sure you fill on the Fill layer.

Step 5

Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the left arm.
Select colour 2 (#E8CB9E) on your Lion colour chart, click on the Fill layer to activate it and flood fill that selection.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
V + H = 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 9
Shadow colour = Use your Lion outline. Colour 1 (#D8A24E).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise - Gaussian: Checked - Noise Amount: 3 - Monochrome: Checked.
Deselect.
Repeat this for the right arm making sure you fill on the Fill layer.

Step 6

Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the mane area.
Select colour 4 (#A85914) on your Lion colour chart, click on the Fill layer to activate it and flood fill that selection.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
V + H = 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 16
Shadow colour = Use your mane outline. Colour 3 (#623606).
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise - Gaussian: Checked - Noise Amount: 6 - Monochrome: Checked.
Deselect.

Delete the White layer.

Merge all visible and save as a psp file or a png.

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