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Draw a Chibi Elf or Leprechaun in Paint Shop Pro X

From Arizona Kate, Guest Contributor, for About.com

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Finishing the Eyes

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Finishing the Eyes

© Copyright Arizona Kate 2006
Now it's time to group and copy our assembled eye and place it into position on top of the white of the other eye. It may be difficult to drag a selection around the 'eyeball' without selecting the underneath layers, so let's select the pieces from the Layer Palette. There will be lots of layers named 'New Ellipse' and 'New Path' on the Layer Palette. (These pieces of the eye should be the only layers that we did not re-name in earlier step!) Hold down the Shift key and select all these sublayers with your cursor.
Note: I found I had to have Pick tool selected or selecting multiple sublayers wouldn't work. This isn't mentioned in Help file.

It will be helpful to 'Group' the pieces of each eye to aid in future selections. Right click and select 'Group'.

Right click to Copy eye group. Paste as 'New Vector Selection' for other eye. Position both eyes looking toward the left.

To finish off the eyes we need to add some eyelashes. A heavy black line for upper lashers and a not quite as heavy line for lower lashes. For the Chibi, these lower lashes are often seen as nearly straight lines. I tried a number of different ways to get a line that starts thin and ends thick for upper lashes and the easiest way I found was to create a black rectangle and edit the four nodes to get the lash shape. Change all node types to Cusp with Curve Before and Curve After. Rotate the handles until you have an upside down U-shape that is thin near the nose and thicker at outside corner of eye.

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