Drawing a flag in photoshop

Posted by Armany on Sep 24, 2009 in Secrets | 8 comments

I once needed flag teaser for one website, but couldn’t find anything good in internet, the best way to do is draw from photo. Will tke 30 min. Ok, first let’s find a good photo.

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No, position is not good

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Not bad, but flag is too light, don’t see the shadows

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NO!too smal

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tOO BIG!!

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Hmmm, almost good, if only the fabric wasn’t turning around

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GOTCHA! Fabric very good, shadows, but damn it’s cut off from left corner!
Oh well, we can do the missed part

1) Let’s start, draw a full shape with pen tool

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2) We can see the flag have 3 shapes, i made a stroke with different colours to see

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3) Make those shapes with pen tool again, they can be whatever clour you want for the first time, i made them grey tones to see the differens

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4) Now when we see it’s ok, we gotta do all shapes white colour and rasterize layers so we will be able to draw shadows on them

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don forget to lock:

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5) Do shadows according to photo with soft grey brush

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6) we must add the picture on it, in my situation i want race flag..but first. i have to see the directions wo i can warp the picture

97) Cool, now to draw the black rectangles

10 8) Let’s warp it to directions!

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9) Cut not needed part

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10) Do the same with the rest of parts

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11) Let’s make oll blak rectangles merged with one layers. and play with blending options

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almost done

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Let’s add shadow

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ready to go to the next PSD file

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8 Responses to “Drawing a flag in photoshop”

  1. WOW, COOL!

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  3. Lool, very good for a girl…

    Welldone

  4. Basically tutorial is about – how to redraw existing image (gives an idea how u “creating” or more like RE-creating ur icons)

    About icon: edges of this flag covered with artifacts. U can see them even without zooming

  5. I loved the shadows and lights

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