Christmas Holly tutorial

By on December 3, 2005 in Miscellaneous, Photoshop, Tutorials

With this tutorial I am going to show you a way to draw a simple Christmas holly like this one using Adobe Photoshop.

Christmass holly photoshop tutorial outcome

1. Start by creating a new document (size doesn’t really matters)

2. Select the Pen tool set your color to green and draw a shape like this one (for this tutorial I had the “Shape Layers” option selected Shape layers option.

leaf shape

3. Select the Ellipse Tool Ellipse tool
You should also select the “Subtract from Shape Area” option subtract from shape area option

4. Draw a circle like on the next screenshot.
subtract ellipse area from leaf

You should get something like this.

ellipse subtract result

5. Repeat step four a few more times on both sides of our original leaf shape until you get something like this.

Christmas hollu leaf

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6 Responses to Christmas Holly tutorial

  1. Jim December 5, 2005 at 11:01 am #

    Not bad, think it’s quite good actually. simple but good…

  2. dan December 18, 2005 at 6:24 pm #

    thanks alot for this tutorial, it helped me make it on my banner :)

  3. Basilakis December 19, 2005 at 9:06 am #

    Very good tutorial. I will use it to my web site.!

  4. couldnt follow January 9, 2006 at 12:54 pm #

    not too easy to understand how to use pen tool to create a shape like that. you could be more elaborate

  5. mickenzi December 7, 2006 at 5:04 pm #

    amazing its soo easy

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