In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll draw an icon of a girl in XP style.
Create a new document, and using
Ellipse tool
draw a circle.
Double click on the layer with the circle and go to the panel Layer style.
Apply the following settings:
Then the circle will look like this:
Next, using pen tool
draw the shape as shown:
Arrange the knots and twist the lines to achieve the desired effect:
Rasterize layers with a hairstyle (right-click on the layer with a hairstyle and select the command Rasterize Layer).
Next, combine the layers of the head and hairstyle. Stand on the top layer and hit the key combination. Ctrl + E
Go to the panel Layer style
and select setting
Stroke (Colour # 783107, the size 1 pixel).
Take the color that was used a little earlier for hair,
draw the following shapes (don’t forget about the stroke-stroke):
Now using rectangle tool
draw a rectangle.
Using ellipse tool and pressing “+”, draw an ellipse,
as it shown on the picture:
Apply the following styles to this layer:
As a result, the girl will wear a red outfit.
Via pen tool , in white, draw the shape as shown:
Using Line tool
(the size 1px), in gray, draw two stripes, as shown:
Next, we draw the following form:
Apply for it in the panel Layer style following style:
Duplicate this layer (Layer – Duplicate layer)
we go edit> transform> flip horizontal
and place the second collar as shown below:
Create a new layer (shift + ctrl + n), and using
elliptical marquee tool
draw an oval selection:
Take gradient tool
and fill the selection with a gradient
(color white> black).
And in the end we have to put in the panel Layers,
blending mode on screen.
If you wish, you can also make a guy in the same style:
