Gorilla Mask Drawing

This task we'll learn how to picture a big hairy gorilla's head and give to the picture an original texture.



Let's begin. Open in a new window the scanned gorilla's picture.



To be easier to work with it just copy this layer: Layer - Duplicate Layer and then decolorize it with next function: Image - Adjustments - Desaturate (shift+ctrl+u). Erase the previous layer with the fast button on the Layers window. Use then Image  Adjustments - Curves (ctrl+m).



Make the paper look white and the contours - black:



Change the got layer's type on Multiply and create a new layer: Layer - New - Layer. Move it under the contours' layer. Next make use of the Brush Tool and paint the gorilla with the basic color.



To insert the background, open a new layer and move it on the bottom, painting it also with the necessary color (Paint Bucket Tool).



Determine the light's direction now.



Then change the Brush Tool's adjustments and determine the shadow's place.



Determine also this way the light's direction.



Choose now the Smudge Tool of a medium size and blur out the colors respecting the hair's direction.



Using the Burn Tool, of a medium size, make the shadows more intensive.



Blur out also the features that we've got, applying the same Smudge Tool.



We'll get such a picture:



Choose now the Eraser Tool and correct the edges.