Vector Girl Tutorial Page 2

Now let's work on the nose. Change the foreground and fill to #d39073. Pen tool/ Freehand. Freehand draw the shadow. Edit the nodes if necessary.

Change the foreground color to #c6876b and no fill. Pen tool/ Freehand/ size 2. Freehand draw to outline the nose.

Change the pen size 1 and draw another line.

Let's work on the mouth. Change the foreground color to #86524a and fill color to #b97369. Preset shape/ Ellipse. Draw an ellipse.

Edit the nodes to reshape the ellipse. Hide the fill property. Draw a line on the center of the mouth to part the lips.

 

Go the layer where the line grids are. Right click on the layer and click clear. This should remove the grids.

Now that the face is done. Let's put some hair on the head. Change foreground and fill color to black (#000000). Pen tool/ Point to point. Draw a point to point image around the head. Right now it looks messy. But it will be ok after we edit the nodes around it.

Let's edit the nodes. I changed some of the nodes to symmetric for a smooth curves. See figure 2.  It's what it looks like after editing the nodes.

 

Put some highlights on the hair.  Change the foreground and fill color to #3f3f3f.  Draw ellipses on the hair.  Edit the nodes.

 

Put highlights on the lips. Change the foreground and fill color to #c0827a. Draw small ellipses on the lips. Then reshape them.

Now let's work on the body. Make the body selected and flood fill with #d5987c. Draw a shadow on the left side of the neck and chest.

 

Make the right arm selected and flood fill with #d5987c. Change the foreground and fill color to #ba8674. Put shadings on the arm. Reduce the opacity 26.

Make the left arm selected and flood fill with #d5987c. Change the foreground and fill color to #ba8674. Put shadings on the arm. The shadings I put were reshaped ellipses and triangle.Reduce the opacity to 26.

 

   

 

Change the foreground and fill color to pattern of your choice. This is going to be her blouse. Pen tool/ Point to point. Draw a point around the body. Edit the nodes.

Draw point to point on the lower part of the blouse. Edit the nodes

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Draw point to point on the middle part of the blouse. Edit the nodes.

 

Right click and make all the vector layers selected, then right click again and select group.  This will put all the layers into group. 

 

At this point, I will let you finish the rest. The above tutorial should help you a little about vector layers. You noticed that I have not converted any of the layers to raster layer, because once you converted them to raster layer, you wouldn't be able to make changes on them.
If you like to continue to the rest of tutorial, it will not be all vector layers. Only part of it are vectors and the other parts are raster layers.  You may convert each layer to raster layer and add effects to each layer to finish the image.
Add a new raster layer.Pen Tool/ Point to Point. Change the foreground and fill pattern or color of your choice. I used a denim pattern from my denim texture tutorial. Make a point to point drawing for the legs.  

You may convert this layer to raster layer. Add vector layers for the shadows. Then go to the layer palette and reduce the opacity to 50. I applied Greg's Factory Output Volume II, pool shadow to put highlights on the jeans. Then applied noise. I added the 2 pockets on the side and stitches on the legs

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Pen tool/ Freehand/ foreground and fill color #d5987c/ size 1/ line style-solid Freehand draw the feet Edit the nodes and convert to raster layer. Go to the layer palette and move the layer down.

Change the foreground and fill to black. Pen tool/ freehand. Freehand draw the sandals. Go to the layer pallette and move the layer down. Convert to raster layer.

Pen tool/ Point to Point/ color black. Click on the feet layer. Point to point draw the sandal's straps. Convert to raster layer.

 

Pen tool/ free hand/ color #6c4e44. Free hand draw lines to separate the toes.

You are done. Take a good look at your creation. You can still make changes or additions on the vector layers before you convert them to raster layers. Add accessories to her hands if you desire. Merge all the layers visible. Save your image.  End of Tutorial

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