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Step 42

For the hat, add its highlight area on the front part. Use #2a2a2a and #555555 color. Remember to set your brush to “Soft Round”.

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Step 43

Do the same way for the back part.

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Step 44

And for its hem, add #b47b02 on a clipping masked layer. Use “multiply” blending mode for its shadow and “screen” for its highlight.

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Step 45

Next for the belt, use #a42335. Also use “multiply” blending mode for its shadow and “screen” for its highlight.

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Step 46

For the white shirt, you just need to add shadow. Use #d8d8d8, #b3b3b3 and #818181 with “multiply” blending mode.

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Step 47

Then start to paint indentation on the jacket. Use #361b0c, for its shadow use multiply blending, and for its highlight use screen blending. See image below for reference.

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Step 48

Add shadows for the white part of cuff.

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Step 49

And add highlights for the black part.

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Step 50

For the hand, paint the shadow using #ebbda1, #d69e7b and c27545 with multiply blending. Then paint its highlight using #ebbda1 with screen blending.

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Step 51

Next go to the legs, add only the highlight using #2a2a2a and #555555 with screen blending.

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Step 52

Double click on the Background layer to turn it into plain layer. Set foreground color to #4e606e and background color to white. Then go to menu Filter > Render > Clouds. To make the clouds background sharper, hold “Opt/Alt” when you access the menu filter. And you have to hold your left click while you hold “opt/Alt”.

Just like this, hold your “Opt/Alt” key, then put your cursor onto menu Filter, then click and hold, move to Render > Cloud, release your click. Your clouds result will be sharper.

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Step 53

Add layer style for this clouds background, that is Gradient Overlay. Enter following settings shown on image below.

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Step 54

Paint the shadows under the pirate on new layer behind legs. Note that there are two shadows here. First, the thinner shadow, it is wider and softer. And the second one is the thicker shadow, it is closer to the legs. Paint them all with soft black.

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Step 55

Go to the uppermost layer, then create a new layer (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + N) above it. Set the background and foreground color to default black and white by pressing “D”. Then add clouds using menu filter like before. Filter > Render > Clouds.

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30 responses to “How to Draw a Cute Pirate Character in Photoshop”

  1. Ps freak Avatar
    Ps freak

    Great tutorial thanks for sharing .pls we need more of this,and little more details on reasons for choice of colours

  2.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Scary

  3. moo Avatar
    moo

    you’re not alone bud

  4.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    i hate this

  5. jim jim jr (jjr) Avatar
    jim jim jr (jjr)

    Great tutorial it was fun and entertaining so much that i couldnt do it

  6. dn Avatar
    dn

    awful. I hate this so much.

  7. b Avatar
    b

    terrible tutorial.

  8. Akki Avatar
    Akki

    boo!

  9. Olanrewaju Majente Avatar
    Olanrewaju Majente

    pls is ps use for publishing comics

  10. Advices for all Avatar
    Advices for all

    quite interesting :)

  11. Trevor Garratt Avatar
    Trevor Garratt

    It is hard for me to comprehend the detail that is needed for this to go through photoshop.

  12. seputar android Avatar
    seputar android

    Thanks for sharing

  13.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    nice demo

  14. allie rose Avatar
    allie rose

    awesome

  15. Josiah Avatar
    Josiah

    Some pen instructions could be clearer on how to do them

    1.  Avatar
      Anonymous

      yes i can’t do the anchor selection on headband

  16. Sandeep moun Avatar
    Sandeep moun

    TOOOOO GOOOD . This site made me to learn photoshop,i love these tutorials

  17. Maidul Islam Avatar
    Maidul Islam

    I like the idea of this tutorial, it’s very creative and the result looks great.

  18. Maidul Islam Avatar
    Maidul Islam

    This is a really inspiring collection for all, I like it, thanks for shearing!

  19. Maria Avatar
    Maria

    Thanks a lot for this tutorial! I learnt a lot from this! Keep posting more! <3

  20. Doug Avatar
    Doug

    hello guys! i’m new on photoshop and i having trouble at textures in step 19, can anyone tell more details about this step? thanx! :)

    1. Faqeeh Avatar
      Faqeeh

      Go to layer palette, put your cursor on the black “front part” of the hat, click to activate it. Then Create a new layer using “Ctrl+Shift+N”. Fill it with black, and then create clipping mask using “Ctrl + Alt + G”. Click menu “Filter > Sketch > Chalk & Charcoal” and set like the example.

  21. Simone Avatar
    Simone

    Thanks, I learned a lot from this

  22. LOLOzwloki Avatar
    LOLOzwloki

    Hey, thanks for the pirate. I have learned some new blending techniques and fogging

  23. shaun Avatar
    shaun

    I have to do this in class and I find it extreamly difficult so i decided to copy and paste it.

  24. Abdullah Al Hamdan Bappy Avatar
    Abdullah Al Hamdan Bappy

    I will try.

  25. Maria Kjartansdottir Avatar
    Maria Kjartansdottir

    Great tutorial, can’t wait to try it. Thank you so much for putting so much work and effort into making it clear.
    Happy Photoshoping,
    M.

  26. awais_cute Avatar
    awais_cute

    helo:)

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  28. Shawn Rubel Avatar
    Shawn Rubel

    It wasn’t as hard as it initially felt like it would be. Thank you for the another amazing tutorial, might pass this on to some of my game dev friends :)

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