Drawing The Avatar

We’re almost done. All we have left to do are Aang’s legs and feet. Let’s start with the left leg. Create a new layer above the hands and arms and grab the pen tool. Trace out the shape of the leg, convert it to a path, then fill it with the tunic color and stroke it, just like we’ve done the rest of Aang’s clothing.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Draw Aang - Fig. 15

Next, we want to do the shadows the same way we did on the arm, and Aang’s belt (much like the arm bands).

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Draw Aang - Fig. 15

Now let’s trace out Aang’s boot on a layer below the one we were just working on.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Draw Aang - Fig. 15

Convert this path to a selection and fill it with the same light brown we used on the staff. Then go back in with the elliptical marquee tool and draw in the details, then do the shadows. Give the entire boot layer and the details layer a 1px black stroke.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Draw Aang - Fig. 15

Now we’re very close to being finished! Let’s move on to the right leg. We’ll do it using the same technique we’ve sued for the rest of the clothing: draw the path, convert to selection, fill selection, stroke path. We’ll put the right leg on its own layer above the left leg.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Draw Aang - Fig. 15

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Added Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 at 8:10 am under Drawing & Painting.