Ladybird.

© Louise G

This is an easy tutorial. You just use Shapes.

Save often. Save in PSP-format, so you can have the background transparent.

Start with New Image, 200 x 200, transparent.

New Layer. Call it wings. Preset Shapes, Sphere.

Now you can use either a round sphere or an oval one. In this tutorial I use the round shape.

Make a circle 130 x 130. Press Shift while you draw.
Take your Dropper and get some red color from the sphere.
 Flood Fill, tolerance 44 + opacity 12.  Pour the red color on the white spot 6 -7 times.

Selection Tool, rectangle. Divide the sphere into two parts, as picture shows.

Make a mark around one half, with your Selection Tool. Click inside it.
Deformation Tool. Turn the part a little inwards at the upper end. Do the same, with the other part.

New Layer. Name it spots. Preset Shapes, Button 037.

Make a ball 30 x 30. Put it in place on the Ladybirds back. Flood Fill with black color, tolerance 44 + opacity 12.
Pour the black color on the white spot 6 -7 times.
Duplicate this Layer four times. You will then have five spots. Put them in place.
The fifth spot must be devided into two parts. Selection Tool. Cut it in two equal parts.
Deformation Tool. Turn the part a little inwards at the upper end.
Do the same, with the other part. Put them in place.
 

 Merge Visible. Call the Layer wings.

New Layer. Call it head. Preset Shapes. Make the head with the same black button you had for the spots.
Make the head slightly oval, 36 x 17. Flood Fill a couple of times with black on the white spot.
The same settings as before.

New Layer. Call it body. Preset Shapes. Make the body with the same black button as you had for the head.
Make an oval, 50 x 125. Flood Fill with black on the white spot, a couple of times. The same settings as before.
Layers, Arrange, Send to bottom.

It will now look like this.

New Layer, call it eye. Make one white dot on the head. Put it in place.
Duplicate the layer and put the other eye in place. Merge Visible. Call the Layer body.

New Layer. Call it antennas.

If your hands are not too stady to draw by hand, you can use one of these ways instead.

On the Ladybirds above you can see the results. The scissors is on the left Ladybird
and I used the heart on the right one.

If you use the heart 1, draw a heart, 42 x 42. Selection Tool. Divide the heart into two parts.

Put the left part on the Ladybirds right side of the head and the right part on the Ladybirds left side.
Use Deformation Tool to turn the parts a bit.

If you use the scissors. Do like this.
Make the scissors 80 x 45. Deformation Tool. Turn the scissors, so it fits on the head.
Eraser. Erase the parts I show you here, marked with blue color.

New Layer. Preset Shapes. Make one antenna-ball with the same black button as you had for the head.
Make it 7 x 7. Put it at the end of the antenna. Duplicate and put the other ball at the end of the other antenna.
Make sure you have the body Layer on top in your Layers Palette.
Merge Visible and you are done.

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