Christmas Holly tutorial

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

Pages: 1 2

del.icio.us Christmas Holly tutorial digg this reddit this Furl this +Spurl this

6 Responses to “Christmas Holly tutorial”

  1. Jim Says:

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

  2. dan Says:

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

  3. Basilakis Says:

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

  4. couldnt follow Says:

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

  5. The Photoshop Roadmap Blog » Blog Archive » A Nice List of Christmas Tutorials, Brushes, Clipart and Icons Says:

    [...] [...]

  6. mickenzi Says:

    amazing its soo easy

Leave a Reply

Related Posts from the Past: