This is your challenge should you choose to accept it.
Use any letter from the
Pretty Pottery dingbat
font to make a pottery urn, vase or jug.
You may colour and decorate
your creation in any manner you choose.
You may also use any other PSP effects or filters of your
choice to complete your image
Feel free to use any third
party plug-ins,
Please share the steps,
filters or functions used with the group so others
can experiment and
learn from your creative combinations if they wish.
This is an example to show you
what I mean.
In this example, using the letter f, I chose
my colour for the Fill (background colour)
with a Null Stroke (foreground). I erased the lines I didn't want
and then flood filled the main part of the vase with the same background colour.
I applied the Eye Candy 3.0 Glass plug-in
using the default setting.
Although I used a lighter red (# 86101E) for my vase, the Glass filter changed
the
finished colour to this rich colour. Next I applied a small tube for
decoration.
I used the Soften Brush to soften around the
edges of the urn to get rid of the jaggies
and then applied a perspective drop shadow from Eye Candy.
Hints and Tips
- Pretty Pottery - uses lower
case letters a-z only.
- I started with a new image 300 x 400 and Font
size of 250
this gave me plenty of room to move around.
- I set the Stroke to Null and the Fill to
White. This gave me the outline of the pot
and I was then able to select different parts to colour
or alternatively, flood fill with white to apply SBP for an all over texture.
- If you need instructions for colouring a
dingbat font my tutorials,
Dingbat Magic
or Creating Cameos,
will give you the basics of this technique.
I hope you have as much fun playing with these as I
have - be warned though - it's very addictive!.
Will you accept the Challenge???
