Tutorial – Scary Clown!
I was browsing through some scary clown photos and it sparked an idea for my next photoshop tutorial.
Clowns were created for the purpose of laughter and amusement for children yet holds a sinister reputation for being a child’s nightmare.
This tutorial should be pretty simple as the nose and mouth are supplied with the .PSD.
This tutorial will help with the concept of changing skin, eyes and hair color with layer blends.
You can definitely experiment with your own colors and designs for the eyes, hair and skin.
If you want to go out and find your own mouth and nose that would be a good practice also.
After you successfully finish this tutorial try it on your own self-portrait and send it to your mom on mother’s day =)
Download the psd here:
Killer clown tutorial psd
1. Liquify the face
This is the subject we’re going to morph into a scary clown.
First we must change his eye expression into something more sinister.
- While on the subject layer, select filter > liquify.
- This will open the liquify effect, select a brush size about 350 and slowly brush down between the eyes.
2. Coloring the skin
- On the skin layer choose the blend mode to “Color”.
- Use the brush tool select the color “black” and start painting his skin around the area shown below, be careful trying not to paint over the hair.
3. Clown nose
I’ve already have the nose on the “Clown nose” layer present.
- Click the eye icon next to the clown nose layer and the clown nose should appear on the image.
- Double click the nose and give it a layer style with a “Drop Shadow” and “Outer Glow” with the settings below.
Your image should now look like this.
4. Coloring the hair
- Now switch to the “hair color” layer and select a blend mode of “Color”.
- Using a brush paint a red color on the area of the hair.
5. Eye color
- On the eye color layer choose a “Darken” blend and with a red color paint the eyes red.
6. Face details
- With the elliptical marquee tool make a circle lining the eyes up to the middle as shown below.
- Now were going to de-select the middle half, with the same tool make a smaller selection BUT hold “ALT” while drawing your circle, this will deselect it.
Now you will have a selected clown face art on your image.
- With the blend mode on “Multiply” use a brush with a dark red color and draw inside the selection of the eye art.
7. Finished
Reveal “Layer 2″ by checking the “Eye icon” and the mouth will appear.
Also practice on different subjects, here’s one I did of Angelina Jolie.
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6:51 pm on July 8th, 2008
we want more like this tut
3:46 am on July 9th, 2008
Thanks, you bet there’s going to be more tutorials like these =)
9:47 pm on July 16th, 2008
7:35 am on July 28th, 2008
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7:44 pm on September 17th, 2008
1:23 pm on October 22nd, 2008
theres steps missing
and such
it would help if u made it more clear
thanks
1:47 pm on October 24th, 2008
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Thanks.:)
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12:38 pm on April 20th, 2009
I cant figure out how to get that mouth smaller for my own pic anny sugestions?
1:10 pm on April 20th, 2009
Click on the mouth layer, CRT+ T, that’s the free transform option and you can drag your mouse to size it. Hope that helps.
3:34 pm on April 25th, 2009
um how do i get the mouth?
7:36 am on April 28th, 2009
I love this one, perhaps Hugh Laurie would make a good clown in a horror movie especially with his sadistic yet humorous nature in House MD. lol
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5:20 pm on May 19th, 2009
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7:21 pm on July 1st, 2009
Hey is it alright if i make the gimp equivalent of this tutorial? i followed along and did my best to do it in gimp and i’d like to make the tutorial but i won’t without your permission
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Hey how do you you add oyu own picture because when i try i open scray-clonw then open my pictue and then i dont knoe what else to do i try copyign the layres but it wont work
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10:22 am on November 24th, 2009
hey I have photoshop 6 and there are no liquify effects in filter, how do I do?
12:57 pm on November 24th, 2009
also , how do i make the mouth?
3:16 pm on November 24th, 2009
thanks so much taking this and then creating my own little fun photoshop picture just made me so excited. I just love it.
10:35 am on December 4th, 2009
HOW DO YOU MAKE THE MOUTH???!!!!!!!
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