Ladybug Pg 2
This is what you should have so far.

- Activate the magic wand tool
with the following settings:
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and click on the left half of the body.
- Set the foreground color to #521012 and flood fill the selection.
- Set your background color to #C00000. Go to selections->modify->contract 4 then flood fill with the background color.
- Go to selections->modify->expand 3 then adjust->blur->gaussian blur radius 4.
- Give it an inner bevel with the following settings then select none.
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- Select none then repeat the above step for the right side but change the bevel settings to:
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- Select none then add a new raster layer. Set the forground color to #ffdba7. Activate the airbrush tool
size 1 and add some lines similar to the following:

Apply a gaussian blur radius 5.
- Add a new raster layer. Activate the lasso tool
feather 2. While holding the shift key make several irregular selection and flood fill with black.
- Make the original layer active (the one with the outline) and activate the magic wand and click inside the head. Flood fill with black then change the foreground color to # f2cfa5.
- While still selected activate the airbrush tool size 6 and add some spots.
- Give it an inner bevel with the same settings as before.
- Add a drop shadow with the following settings:
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Select none.
- Add a new raster layer. Activate the pen tool, simple mode, freehand, line width 2 and make 2 antenna.
You are almost done! You can export it as a tube or give it a drop shadow and flatten. Your choice.
I hope you found this tutorial useful and easy to follow. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to .
