HORACE HOG

Created February 28, 2002 © Copyright Moon's Designs
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This is my creation, any similarity to other tutorials on the Internet is unintentional.
Please do not copy or place this tutorial or any graphics to any other place without written permission directly from me. Thank you

 

Step 9:
Time to add some eyes. Set your foreground to NULL and your background to white. Add a new layer, name it outer eye. Using your preset shapes, draw a white circle on the left side of your face where you would like his eye. You can either add a cutout now or EyeCandy 4 Glass if you have it. Select All and Float (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+F). Go to Effects-->3D-->Cutout and add the following settings:

I used the Glass from Eye Candy 4. Under Settings I selected Clear Glass and changed the Color to light gray.

Save. Add a new layer, name it inner eye. Change your background color to Black. With your preset shapes draw a black circle inside your white outer eye. Go to Effects-->3D-->Inner Bevel and apply the Round preset that comes with PSP. We want to merge your inner eye and outer eye now. Go to your layer palette and close all layers except the inner eye and outer eye. Make sure you are on the outer eye and go to Layers-->Merge-->Merge Visible. Rename this layer eyes. Go to Edit-->Copy. Edit-->Paste-->As New Selection and use your mover tool to place your second eye. When you are satisfied, deselect and save.

Step 10:
Add a new layer, name it brows. I used a brown color for his eyebrows, #A47818. Set your background to NULL and your foreground the color you want for his brows. Use your draw tool, set at freehand, width of 4. Draw 2 eyebrows above his eyes. When Suz saw the preview, she suggested making the brows bushier. Of course feel free to do so if you would like.

Step 11:
Go to your layer palette and close layer1. Activate the top layer and Merge Visible. Rename your merged layer head.

Step 12:
I know you have been wondering WHEN are we going to use the preset heart shape that we made! Well, now is the time. :-) Activate layer1, add a new layer and name it ear. Open your preset shapes and find the shape that you made. Check Retain Style. This will keep your heart the same color that you made it.

Draw out a small heart. Go to Images-->Flip. With your mover tool, move the your heart to the left of the head, with part of the heart under the head.

Go to Effects-->Noise and use the same settings as before. Go to Effects-->3D--Inner Bevel and add the following settings:

Go to Effects-->3D-->Drop Shadow and add the following settings:

Go to Images-->Rotate. Rotate your ear to the right, 25 degrees.

Step 13:
Go to Layers-->Duplicate. Images-->Mirror. Now you have an ear on each side.

Step 14:
Add a new layer, name it mouth. Using your preset shapes, draw a large heart below the head.

With your mover tool, move your heart up under the head like the example below:

Apply your Noise, Inner Bevel and Drop Shadow. Save.

Step 15:
We're almost done! Add a new layer. Change your foreground to NULL and your background to Red. Open your preset shapes and UNcheck the retain styles. Draw a small red heart and move it up under the head so a little piece is sticking out. Add the drop shadow, but change the horizontal and vertical to 0.

We now have our basic Horace Hog made. If you like you can add a tuft of hair or whatever you would like. You could always make Horace as Henrietta by adding eyelashes. The possibilities are endless.

When you are done with your decorating you can add a background and/or frame, merge all layers and export it as a tube or save it as a gif. You will probably want to resize your creation before sending it to your groups if they are using this tutorial as a lesson. If you aren't familiar with resizing and sharpening please view my resizing tutorial HERE.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial as much as I did creating it for you. A special thank you to my tutorial testers, Suz, Suecat, Beckie, Elkay, Terri and Randie.

Vera, one of the gals in the PSP Magic group, sent in her rendition of Horace Hog and I just had to share it with the rest of you. She not only did the face but continued on and made the whole hog and gave Horace some brothers! Thank you Vera for letting me share this on the site.