Heart-rabbit.

© Louise G

This little rabbit will just do fine for Valentines day.
Almost the whole rabbit, is made out of hearts.

You will also need Eye Candy and Paint Engine.

Start with a New Image 200 x 300, transparent.

New Layer. Call it Body1. Preset Shapes, heart.
White color on both Fore- and Background.
Make a heart 100 x 120.

Duplicate that layer, call it Body2 and place the hearts after one another for the body.
 See my big picture above.

Stand on Layer Body1.Eye Candy, Swirl.

Fantastic Machines, Paint Engine, Pastel sponge.

Make the same with Layer Body2.

Duplicate Layer Body2. Call it Head. Place it on top of the body.

Stand on Layer Body1. Selection Tool, rectangle.
Make a rectangle around the heart. Click inside it.
Effects, Cutout as below.

Deselect.

Make the same with the layer Body2 and Layer Head.

Stand on Layer Head. Selection Tool, rectangle.
Make a rectangle around the head. Click inside it.
Effects, Cutout as above, but change Vertical to -4 and Horizontal to 4. Deselect.

It will now look like this. I have put some color behind the rabbit, so you can see better.

Layers, Merge, Merge Visible to those three layers. Call it Rabbit.

New Layer. Call it Ears. Preset Shapes, heart. Make the heart  70 x 115.
Put the ears on top of the head. Take the same Eye Candy, Swirl
and Paint Engine, Pastel Sponge and Cutout.

New Layer. Call it Inner ear. Pink color on both Fore- and Background. I used #FFA69E.
Preset Shapes, heart. Make the heart 40 x 85. Selection Tool, rectangle.
Divide the heart and part the pieces a little. Deselect. Put the inner ear in place.

Paint Engine, Pastel Sponge twice!

Close Layer Rabbit and Merge Visible to the rest. Call it Ears.
Drag Layer Ears under Layer Rabbit in your Layers Palette.

New Layer. Call it Tail. Preset Shapes, heart. White color. Make a heart 40 x 40.
Take the same, Eye Candy, Swirl, Paint Engine, Pastel Sponge and Cutout.
Deformation Tool. Turn the tail a bit and put it in place.
Drag Layer Tail to the bottom in your layers Palette.

Your picture will now look like this.

Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Body.

New Layer. Call it Eyes1. Preset Shapes, heart. White color.
Make a heart 60 x 65. Take the same Cutout as you did on Head.

New Layer. Call it Eyes2. Black color on both Fore- and Background.
Preset Shapes, Ellipse. Make an Ellipse 7 x 12. Effects, 3-D, Inner Bevel, Round.

Duplicate the layer and put the other eye in place.

New Layer. Call it Nose. Fore- and Background color #FFA69E.
Preset Shapes, heart. Make the heart 21 x 23. Put the nose in place.
Make a rectangle around the nose. Click inside it.
Effects, Cutout as above, but change Vertical to 4 and Horizontal to -4. Color #FC6868. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Whiskers. Draw, Single Line 4. Darkgrey color.
Make a line 60 x 0. Effects, Geometric, Wave.

Close all other Layers. Duplicate Whiskers Layer two times. Deformation Tool.
Turn them like I did.

Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Duplicate. Image, Mirror. Put the whiskers in place.

Layers, View, All layers.

Stand on Layer Nose. Layers, Arrange, Bring to top.

New Layer. Call it Teeth. Preset Shapes, Rectangle. White color. Make a rectangle 7 x 15.
Selection Tool, rectangle. Make a rectangle around the tooth.
Effect, Cutout with the blue color as before.

Duplicate and put the theeth in place.

Layers, Merge, Merge Visible, Effects, Sharpen once and you are done!

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