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.
2:35 am on July 2nd, 2008
Cool man .. can’t wait for it
8:35 pm on July 7th, 2008
whahh..AWSOME, i gotta try this one =)
6:51 pm on July 8th, 2008
yo man this is awesome
we want more like this tut
3:46 am on July 9th, 2008
A619,
Thanks, you bet there’s going to be more tutorials like these =)
9:47 pm on July 16th, 2008
哇..经典…实在是喜欢..
7:35 am on July 28th, 2008
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péssimo
7:44 pm on September 17th, 2008
This is awsome Keep em comin lol
1:23 pm on October 22nd, 2008
this tutorial isnt really that clear….
theres steps missing
and such
it would help if u made it more clear
thanks
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8:42 pm on October 31st, 2008
Nice tutorial i try it!!
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9:44 am on November 16th, 2008
I agree that a few steps seem to be missing, but overall this seems to be a nice tutorial with great effect. However, if you could develop a replacement for the mouth, it would be great – when you see the top portion of the face, it looks good and pretty realistic. And then you come to the mouth, which just makes it seem like a sort of prank or joke.
Thanks.:)
12:13 am on December 15th, 2008
Really cool! But the beard on the sides of the face was a minus for me. Overall 7 out of 10
6:42 pm on March 10th, 2009
Wow he looks the same at the begging as he does at the end! O.O
5:13 am on March 19th, 2009
this is so fuckin scary u should not have this because some people r afraid of it
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
Dentre,
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
5:38 am on April 30th, 2009
牛啊！帅啊！
5:20 pm on May 19th, 2009
BEST TUTORIAL! U RULE
2:32 am on May 29th, 2009
5:30 am on June 23rd, 2009
强悍的人，顶死你！
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
8:59 pm on July 1st, 2009
Sure =)