Drawing The Avatar

Now, again go in and draw the details. Remember, there’s a much dark brown area of fabric on the underside Aang’s right leg.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Draw Aang - Fig. 15

Then we’ll do the shadow.
Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Draw Aang - Fig. 15

Now, let’s draw our last element-Aang’s right boot. Create a new layer under all of the “right leg” layers and call it “right boot.” Draw it out, convert it to a path, fill it and stroke it just as we’ve done the rest of the clothing.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Draw Aang - Fig. 15

Do the details, leather straps, etc.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Draw Aang - Fig. 15

And finally, finish it off with the shadow layer.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Draw Aang - Fig. 15

This was an incredibly complicated tutorial with a lot of steps. It’s probably not for the Photoshop novice, though I really hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. If you’d like to take a closer look at the end result, you may download the PSD file.

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