Free Tutorials

First, create a new document any size you like, I made mine 300 x 300.
Then get you circular marquee tool and draw a circle while holding shift
to make it perfect. Then grab you gradient tool and fill it with a gradient
similar to the one below. Pick any color you like.



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You should get something like this:



Now make two more layers (Ctrl + Shift + N) and draw two hands using
the steps from above.

You should get somthing like this:



This is how your layers should look:



Now, draw a decent sized border around the circles using any method you
like. The easiest way would probally be by just adding a stoke. Make it any width
you feel looks good.



Make a new layer and call it "glare". Grab the circular marquee
tool once again and draw an oval the is about 3/4 of the width and just
short of the height of the body. Fill it with the white to transparent
gradient shown below.



You should get something like this.



Now set the opacity of the "glare" layer to about 25% or whatever
you feel looks good.



This is what I got with 25%.



Make a new layer (Ctrl + Shift + N) and call it "eye". Draw
a small elongated oval on this layer and fill it with black.



Now move the same selection you used to fill in the eye and move it slightly
down and to the right. Now hit delete. Once you have done this, deselect
everything and duplicate the layer. Then flip it horizontally and move
it over. These steps are shown below.



Now draw a mouth, you can do anything as simple as just a little circle
to a big 'ol grin, be creative. Once you have drawn the eyes and mouth set
the opacity of the layers for the mouth and eyes to about 50%.

And your done! You can add some scenery or even add a little animation like I
did below. Hope you enjoyed the tutorial!