Design a Colorful Illustration

November 2nd, 2009 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Designing, Photo Editing

Make another ellipse

Change Fill to 0% and go to Layer Style > Drop Shadow

Add Gradient Overlay

Gradient Editor settings:

And the last one ellipse

Set Fill to 0% for this layer and go to Layer Style by clicking on this layer on the Layers’ panel.
Add Drop Shadow

Set Gradient Overlay

Gradient Editor settings:

On the circles’ edges mentioned with the arrows we’ll represent half-transparent transitions. In this case we’ll click on the necessary layer on the bottom part of the layers’ panel on Add a Mask icon and after that choose a brush of black color (Opacity 20%) to clean out the chosen circle.

Let’s represent the highlights on the circles. Create a new layer and choose a brush of white color (Opacity 30%).

Set Blend mode to Overlay for the layer with the highlights:

On the next new layer apply the same brush, but with a smaller diameter to give more shining effect to certain highlights.

Create a new layer again and use here the brush to represent a lot of colored spots around the circles. Take a sample of color out of the circles, using the Eyedropper Tool (I).

Set Fill to 70% for this layer

Take the Pen Tool (P) to represent a tattoo on the girl’s cheek. The tattoo’s color is black.

Put together the shape’s layers composing the tattoo into a rasterized layer (press Ctrl button to select out these layers in Layers panel and then press CTRL+E to Merge Down). Make a click on the bottom part of the layers’ panel on Add a Mask icon and choose a brush of black color (Opacity 20%) to erase the tattoo’s edges.

Try to represent several bubbles under the girl’s neck, choosing in this case the Ellipse Tool (U).

Set Fill to 0% for this layer and go to Layer Style > Gradient Overlay

Gradient Editor settings:

Add Stroke

Make several copies of the last made layer and choose Free Transform option to change the copies’ sizes, placing them the same way demonstrated below.

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