Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - admin @ April 29th, 2006
Drawing a Cool Cartoon Robot |
| Start by creating a ellipse using elliptical shape tool. Press Ctrl+T and rotate it. |
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| Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown. |
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| Enable subtract form shape area form the top bar. |
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| Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool. |
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| Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. |
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| Create another ellipse using elliptical shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select warp. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown. |
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| Create a couple of circles for the eye using elliptical shape tool. |
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| Duplicate the eye layers and place it for the other eye. |
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| Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. |
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| Enable subtract form shape area form the top bar. Create another ellipse and place as shown. |
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| Place the shape as shown in the image below. |
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| Duplicate the layer and place as shown. |
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| Create a rounded rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool. Place it for the antenna. |
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| Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. |
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| Create a rectangle for the neck of the robot using rectangular shape tool. Create an ellipse for the neck joint using elliptical shape tool. |
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| Create another ellipse below the neck joint ellipse. Enable add to shape area from the top bar and create a rectangle for the neck using rectangular shape tool. |
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| Enable subtract form shape area form the top bar. Create a shape using pen tool as shown. |
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| Create a rounded rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select warp. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown. |
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| Create another rounded rectangle and distort it as it creates the 3D depth of the body. |
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| Create some rectangles. Distort and place as shown. |
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| Create a rectangle for the arm and rotate it. Place as shown. Duplicate the layer. Select the lower one. Move it a few pixel upwards. |
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| Create a circle for the hand joint. using elliptical shape tool. Duplicate the arm layers and rotate and place as shown. |
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| Using pen tool create a horse shoe shape and place for the hand of the robot. |
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| Duplicate the whole arm layers. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select flip horizontal Place it for the other side. |
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| Create an ellipse using elliptical shape tool. Move the layer below all the layers. |
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| Duplicate the layer several times and place below each other. This will create spring to connect the body and legs. |
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| Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown. |
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| Create two more rectangles to create 3d box. Distort and place as shown. |
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| Select the spring layers and duplicate them. Move the layers below the box layer. Duplicate the box layers, scale down and place as shown. |
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| Create a rounded rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select warp. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown. |
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| Create more rectangles to create a box shape as we did in previous steps. |
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| Duplicate and place for the other feet. |
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| Apply a nice gradient to the background. |
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