Tutorial #7
for reebeecaa
Tbh this was actually a large tumblr graphic I made and then resized it and made it into an icon.
So we take this cap.
I resize it to 533x300 and make it b&w.
We google some horns, remove the background and resize them. I like the way the right horn looks, so I just take that one and make it b&w. Then put it on Sam's head. Then I duplicate the horn, flip it and put it on the other side of his head. Because I don't like the way the horn begins, I make a selection of Sam's hair from the base and drag it on top, so his hair covers the parts of the horns I don't like. I prefer it to masking out the parts I dislike, and I always use it when inserting things on the head like glasses, flower crowns etc.
So now we have this
We add some demon eyes, bc they are very important
And now we take this texture and add it around the corner's of his eyes, set on Darken or Multiply. Mask out the parts you dislike, then do it to his other eye. It's kind of funny, I like textures that make it look like the subject is bleeding/crying from the eyes, because it looks really aesthetically pleasing to me, but I'm getting nowhere near blood textures. Just y'know the painty dripping type. Those are the aesthetic. Not the real blood drops and stuff. No. Nope. Absolutely not.
We merge everything together.
Then we take this texture and we resize it to our liking. I add a b&w gradient layer to it on Soft Light to make the gray part of it go away. And then I use it as the base on which we put Sam on Lighten or Screen. I'm gonna resize it just for the sake of displaying the pic, but I always work on bigger canvas.
Now we take this texture and we invert it. Resize and put it on top on Screen. Go back to the Sam layer and mask out everything that goes outside the branch frame.
Then we take the painty texture from above and add it to the branches.
Now we resize it and move it to a 100x100 canvas and add this texture to Screen, then duplicate it. Sharpen your icon and we're done C:
