This tutorial was written by Monti on September 24th 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.

This is a really quick tutorial so I hope you enjoy it.

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.
Of course you are free to use any colours you want.

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.

Please Note - The girl shown in the tag above is the Pixel Rock Chick which you can find HERE.

Step 1:

We will be be making the Microphone shown above and will be starting with the main outline. The outline below has been resized a lot so you can see it clearly.
I have done the outline in 2 parts, the microphone and then the lead. We will be starting with the microphone.
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%
Change colours as you go as indicated on the outline chart.
The main outline is colour 1 (#000000), both ends of the microphone are colour 2 (#A1A2A4) on your colour chart.
I started at the bottom of this pixel, the microphone stand. (You can move the image later using your move tool if you need to).

Set your foreground to colour 1 (#000000) on the colour chart and start drawing the outline.

Step 2 - Fills

When all of your outline is complete, select your magic wand with the following settings and click inside the base of the microphone stand.

Add a new raster layer called Fill and move this beneath your outline layer in the layer palette.
Select colour 3 (#313030) on your 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 = 2
Shadow colour = Use colour 1 (#000000) on your colour chart.
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.

Step 3

Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the handle area shown below.

Select colour 3 (#313030) on your 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 = 2
Shadow colour = Use colour 1 (#000000) on your colour chart.
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.

Step 4

Select your magic wand and making sure you are on the outline layer click inside the front part of the microphone.
Select colour 4 (#D4D5D6) on your 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 = 2
Shadow colour = Use colour 2 (#A1A2A4) on your colour chart.
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise - Gaussian: Checked - Noise Amount: 6 - Monochrome: Checked.
Deselect.

Step 5 - Lead

Add a new raster layer and call it Lead. Make sure this layer is at the top in your layer palette.
Use the count below to draw in your microphone lead using your paint brush at size: 1 - colour 3 (#313030) on your colour chart.
I have lowered the opacity on the microphone layers so you can see the count and placement of the lead better.

I have left the lead short so you can arrange your rock band however you like. If you want to make it longer just draw in some more.

Delete the White layer.

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

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