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Flying Santa Claus with gifts

Now we’ll picture the Santa’s cap. In this case we’ll use again the method of subtraction one ellipse out of the other one. Create for the beginning the first element of our cap:

Create Flying Santa Claus with gifts in Photoshop CS3

Let’s divert the attention from the cap and start drawing the hair locks, bristling out of the cap. Make a copy of the eyebrow’s layer and set the necessary points to get the same result from below:

Create Flying Santa Claus with gifts in Photoshop CS3

Get back to the cap and choose the Pen Tool (P) with the color #E92225 to draw the top part of the cap:

Create Flying Santa Claus with gifts in Photoshop CS3

The cap is finished. Pass to representing the Santa’s ears with the Ellipse Tool (U). Firstly we need to represent a small ellipse:

Create Flying Santa Claus with gifts in Photoshop CS3

Choose for this layer Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Create Flying Santa Claus with gifts in Photoshop CS3 

Create Flying Santa Claus with gifts in Photoshop CS3 

Create Flying Santa Claus with gifts in Photoshop CS3

Make a copy of the ear and place the copy the way demonstrated next image:

Create Flying Santa Claus with gifts in Photoshop CS3

Select again the Pen Tool (P) to represent the character’s beard:

Create Flying Santa Claus with gifts in Photoshop CS3

Next we’ll draw one more ellipse that is going to be the character’s mouth, placing the corresponding points of ellipse as next picture shows it:

Create Flying Santa Claus with gifts in Photoshop CS3

Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Create Flying Santa Claus with gifts in Photoshop CS3 

Create Flying Santa Claus with gifts in Photoshop CS3 

Create Flying Santa Claus with gifts in Photoshop CS3

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