Brown Wings
Written July 2010
As is the case for most of my tutorials, this one is graphics intense!
If you are on a slow connection or running a slower computer you may want to give it a bit to load.
This tutorial demonstrates only one of many ways to create jaggedy wings similar to the style used by Amy Brown for your faeries.
It is designed in Photoshop CS 4 and to my knowledge it works this way in versions 7 through CS 3 of Photoshop. People with knowledge of their own graphics program including Paint Shop Pro should be able to easily translate this for that program.
This is my workspace. I keep a new window open to see what Im working on at normal size at all times. I use the pencil tool for pixeling, the paintbrush tool for colors and shading. Aside from those two tools I use the layers palette and that's all. For these wings I used ONLY the pencil tool but you can use the paintbrush tool for all of the coloring and shading and have a much richer, softer wing.
Use your pencil tool and a dark color from your faery and draw out a jaggedy wing. Be as sloppy as you like - you will need to clean up the extra pixels anyway!
Cleaned up pixels =)
Choose a lighter shade of your outline color and fill in the wings:
Select a bright, light color from your faery and draw in a thick jagged edge along the inside edge of the faery wing you've created. It doesnt have to be neat!
Add some leopard type spots here with a color of your choice.
The color I chose clearly was not working out lol. So I changed it to match the outline and then used the lighter color of my edging to fill the spots in:
Use your lasso tool to select the outline of your wing that touches the lighter edging you've added like below:
With your bucket tool and contigious checked OFF, fill in the outline with a darker shade of your light edging:
I repeated this process with the spots and I think it looks much better!
Now I used a color just a little darker than the fill color to floodfill that harsh dark outline:
Duplicate > Mirror and align so your wings match:
Now drag the wings layer to the back and you have your Brown style winged faery =)
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