Happy Flower

Photoshop Tutorial

This tutorial teaches you to draw a cute looking happy flower smiley.
Draw this shape with ellipse tool. Use #FFCC00 as foreground color.

Apply gradient overlay

and stroke :-

Create a new layer. Draw a selection with Elliptical Marquee Tool.

Set the foreground and background color as shown in the figure. Select Linear Gradient and fill the selection in such a way that it fills the selection as shown: -

Draw a black circle with ellipse tool :-

Control+click on the layer's name in the layer pallate to select it. Go to select>modify>contract and contract the selection by 1 pixels :-

Create another layer. Fill the selection with white color.

Use high feather eraser tool and erase the lower part of the white colored layer as shown: -

Group and merge the eye layers. Duplicate and place the eye layer as shown: -

Draw smiley line with brush tool. Set the brush size to 4 pixels and color to #FF8000. Also dont forget to create a new layer for that.

Now, select this auto shape: -

Set the foreground color to #F59F00 and draw the shape. Send it back by pressing ctrl+shift+{.

Apply these layer styles in it: -

Our happy flower smiley is ready :)

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