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Tutorial 8 - Arwen
A tutorial to make
from 
, as a lot of people asked for icon tutorials. (I picked one at random.)
This tutorial includes base fixing, blending, and a bit of masking and brushwork. Image heavy, and long.
A warning: while I've tried to make this tutorial as simple as possible, this was not an easy icon to make and I can't promise a completely beginner-friendly tutorial. However, feel free to give it a shot, and I'll certainly clarify if there's anything that needs explaining.
You will probably need to know how to make layer masks in your program, as I only have GIMP and can't explain. You'll also need to know how to crop, resize, and make new layers.
This tutorial was written for GIMP 2.2. It is, however, translatable.
I started with a cap from 'Arwen's Vision' in RotK, provided by Annon nan Galadh. I cropped it to my satisfaction and resized:
I duplicated the layer. Then, I opened the 'Levels' dialogue (Layers>>Colors>>Levels), and clicked 'Auto'. I got this:
I sharpened my image (Filters>>Enhance>>Sharpen):
Then, I used the Blur tool with a small round brush and fixed Arwen's skin a little:
It might not look like much now, but you'll see the difference it makes to the later stages, as some of the steps really emphasise even very fine lines. Eck.
I duplicated that layer and set it to Soft Light at 100:
I flood-filled a new layer with black (#000000) and set to Soft Light, 70 percent opacity:
That's the end of my base prep, so I merge and save. Now, I take this purple texture by (?):
I paste it in on a new layer, set to Normal.
I create another layer, and add this purple gradient by (?):
I set it to Multiply and get this:
Now, I duplicate the first purple texture and bring it to the top. Setting it to Soft Light, I get this:
New layer. I use a smallish round brush and doodle a bit in beige:
(The black is just there so that the beige will show up more clearly.)
Setting that to Normal at 100, this is what I get:
Time to bring Arwen back into the picture (literally). I create a new layer, and add a layer mask. Then I paste this into the mask:
Then, I bring my final base of Arwen (the one I get after all the layering) to the top, and resize a bit. I crop out the bits I don't need; I then duplicate and desaturate (Layers>>Colors>>Desaturate) to get this:
I set that to Multiply:
I now bring the coloured version up, and set it to Screen:
Duplicate that and set to Soft Light:
Duplicate the Soft Light layer again:
Now, I go back to my base and crop out a new part, like so:
I set that to Multiply:
Then add a couple of duplicates on Screen and Soft Light:
I add a brush in beige, set to Screen at 100:
Now, I took a lovely Evenstar base fromcassie2003, and pasted in a beige Multiply layer over it to colour it beige:
I set it to Screen:
Duplicated and set to Soft Light, after masking out the black:
Now, another crop of the base, this time with Arwen's eyes:
I masked it out, with my layer mask looking like this:
I set it to Soft Light. This was my icon:
I added this tinytext brush bysaihara:
My icon now looks like this (almost there...!)
A couple of bruses (by_joni and inxsomniax, I believe) later:
There, I'm done. If you have questions, feel free to fire away. You can also request other tutorials.
A tutorial to make
from , as a lot of people asked for icon tutorials. (I picked one at random.)This tutorial includes base fixing, blending, and a bit of masking and brushwork. Image heavy, and long.
A warning: while I've tried to make this tutorial as simple as possible, this was not an easy icon to make and I can't promise a completely beginner-friendly tutorial. However, feel free to give it a shot, and I'll certainly clarify if there's anything that needs explaining.
You will probably need to know how to make layer masks in your program, as I only have GIMP and can't explain. You'll also need to know how to crop, resize, and make new layers.
This tutorial was written for GIMP 2.2. It is, however, translatable.
I started with a cap from 'Arwen's Vision' in RotK, provided by Annon nan Galadh. I cropped it to my satisfaction and resized:
I duplicated the layer. Then, I opened the 'Levels' dialogue (Layers>>Colors>>Levels), and clicked 'Auto'. I got this:
I sharpened my image (Filters>>Enhance>>Sharpen):
Then, I used the Blur tool with a small round brush and fixed Arwen's skin a little:
It might not look like much now, but you'll see the difference it makes to the later stages, as some of the steps really emphasise even very fine lines. Eck.
I duplicated that layer and set it to Soft Light at 100:
I flood-filled a new layer with black (#000000) and set to Soft Light, 70 percent opacity:
That's the end of my base prep, so I merge and save. Now, I take this purple texture by (?):
I paste it in on a new layer, set to Normal.
I create another layer, and add this purple gradient by (?):
I set it to Multiply and get this:
Now, I duplicate the first purple texture and bring it to the top. Setting it to Soft Light, I get this:
New layer. I use a smallish round brush and doodle a bit in beige:
(The black is just there so that the beige will show up more clearly.)
Setting that to Normal at 100, this is what I get:
Time to bring Arwen back into the picture (literally). I create a new layer, and add a layer mask. Then I paste this into the mask:
Then, I bring my final base of Arwen (the one I get after all the layering) to the top, and resize a bit. I crop out the bits I don't need; I then duplicate and desaturate (Layers>>Colors>>Desaturate) to get this:
I set that to Multiply:
I now bring the coloured version up, and set it to Screen:
Duplicate that and set to Soft Light:
Duplicate the Soft Light layer again:
Now, I go back to my base and crop out a new part, like so:
I set that to Multiply:
Then add a couple of duplicates on Screen and Soft Light:
I add a brush in beige, set to Screen at 100:
Now, I took a lovely Evenstar base from
cassie2003, and pasted in a beige Multiply layer over it to colour it beige:I set it to Screen:
Duplicated and set to Soft Light, after masking out the black:
Now, another crop of the base, this time with Arwen's eyes:
I masked it out, with my layer mask looking like this:
I set it to Soft Light. This was my icon:
I added this tinytext brush by
saihara:My icon now looks like this (almost there...!)
A couple of bruses (by
_joni and inxsomniax, I believe) later:There, I'm done. If you have questions, feel free to fire away. You can also request other tutorials.
