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Bear Ding Filled page 3 Instruction

 Merge some parts together as a single object.

  • 11. I took all of the brown bear pieces and merged them together. Just use the transform tool and select the bear face, hold your shift key down and select the rest of the brown fur pieces. Rc and merge as a single object.

    Then I took all of the blue scarf pieces and merged them together, include the cloned spot pieces. Then the 2 yellow strips together.  Do not get the 3 red circles you made, the patch or the bears outline leave them separate. The reason for leaving the scarf separate is that you can use the bear again and you can change the colors of the scarf by using  hue and saturation. You may want to also change the patch later. If you want to you can name the parts now in your easy pallet.

     

    • 12. Our next step is to fill in the light brown fur but if you want to make a different mouth that has to be first. You can leave it alone if you want to I wanted a smile on them so I took the Line and arrow tool with these settings shown in the ss below. Shape is Spline- color black -outline 1 -mode 2D

     
  •  Draw a curved mouth if it isn't quite right you can do it again or fix the line using the Edit to adjust your curved line. You will notice that on the bear ding outline there is an upside down V shape that shows. I just erased that part by selecting the outline of the bears and I used a 5 shape with 0 soft edge for the eraser setting. [I don't think you need a ss of doing that.] It will look something like this now. I did one for each bear shown below. When you're happy with the mouth, select them both and merge the 2 mouth pieces with the outline as one object.

     
  • Now we can do the light brown color on the faces and on the feet.
    Select the Magic Wand, make sure your Mode is plus, click inside of the face on one bear with the magic wand [not inside the nose yet that part is black] then click inside the face on the other bears face.
    Rc/Expand/Shrink and expand 1 pixel, click ok.
    Rc Convert to Object.         To fill the pieces go to Edit/Fill and fill with the wd-bear-light.jpg file.
    Do the 3 feet bottoms the same way. Deselect when you're done.
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  • 13. Using the magic wand click the area inside of the nose on one bear click again on the inside of the other bears nose.
    Rc/Expand/Shrink and expand 1 pixel, click ok.
    Rc Convert to Object.
    Edit/Fill     the nose with color/black.
     
  • 14. Lets add just a couple of highlights to the eyes and nose. First use the ss below to see where I did them and the settings for the eyes. Paint in mode and paint the eyes. I did click out of mode when I finished the eyes then adjusted my settings for the highlight on the noses, clicked In Mode again and painted the nose.



    Here is the finished results of what we did so far.



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  • 15. Using the re touch burn tool we will add a little bit of darker highlight on your bears. Select the Dark Brown fur part on the bears. Click on your burn tool and use the setting in my next ss below. If you want to lighten using the dodge tool feel free to do that to your liking but use a level 24 or less so it is not too bright [the same settings for dodge as burn basically]. You can also burn around the scarf and the lighter bear fur areas now...also bottom of feet.



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