This tutorial shows how create a photorealistic picture of Eve the girlfriend of the famous wall-e character of the latest Disney and Pixar Movie.
Step 1
First step is to create new file from adobe Photoshop with File>New and set up a 600px per 600px canvass with 72dpi resolution and let’s name it “Eve”.

Step 2
Now with the with background let’s begnin drawing the shape of Eve’s body. Let’s start with an oval mask using the oval tool (U). Leave Gray as foreground color.
Step 3
Now use the Pen Tool (P) to reshape the oval. Name the layer “front”. Choose the Pen Tool then clic the Ctrl on keyboard and clic on the oval. The four anchor points will be highlighted. Clic on the upper anchor point to select it and drag down to define a round upper edge.

Ctrl+clic on the side anchor points and drag upward to make a more stretched shape.

After that Alt+clic on the side anchor upper bezier points and drag them down. The final result may be like the following:

Step 4
Choose the layer “front” and than choose the menu Layer>Layer Style>Color Overlay choose color R:247 G:251 B:251.
Then choose Inner Glow in the same window and choose as color R:201 G:201 B:201 (grey) and apply as blending mode “Darken”. Choose dimension 87px.

Choose then Inner Shadow, select opacity 18%, uncheck the “Use global light” and choose -39 angle degrees.Distance 36px, dimension 27px. Now the front of eve may look like this.

Step 5
Add now an Highlight and reflections. Add a new Layer named Front reflections. Using the pen tool draw a light shape on the left side and choose color white with 75% opacity.

Choose a picture with interior lights, you can find them in flickr creative commons or othe free image stocks. I choose this one.
Copy and paste the picture in a new layer named “front light”. On this layer apply the effect Filter>Distorsion>Lens Correction.
Apply a negative value to the lens just to round a lot the picture. Then clic ok.
Transform the picture, rotate and resize to best fit what a light may reflect on the eve’s body. Choose as layer blending mode “Lighter”.

In this case, Eve’s has a body not much reflective so choose a 70% opacity for “front light” layer.
Now apply the same mak as the “Front Layer” to the “Front Light” Layer. Alt+Clic on the first mask and drag to the second layer

Step 6
Now let’s create the…neck!
Add a new Layer. Neme it “Neck”. Create with the oval tool (U) a disc on the top of the front shape. Then Alt+clic on the effect icon on the front layer and drag to the last one so to duplicate the layer effects. Then bring the layer back before the “Front ” Layer. Adjust the layer effect to make it lighter – using inner glow and inner shadows values.

Create a new layer named “inside neck” and use the oval tool (U). Drag and copy with Alt+clic the effect from the “neck” layer to this one. Adjust the values of the layer effects to let the oval seem a little darker.

Step 7
Let’s add the Supercar lights!
Choose the Brush tool (B). Choose among your brushes the standard Squared Brush. In the Brush Tab then choose Spacing 164%.

Then add a new Layer named “neck lights”, With the Pen Tool (P), Clic the Path icon and draw a straight line.

Then right clic on this line and choose Trace Path. In the option you have to choose the brush trace option. The result is a square dotted line like this

Delete the last path in the path tab. Then with the layer “neck lights” selected digit Ctrl+T to trasform the object and stretch it to make it taller .
Then choose Edit>Trasform>Warp and transform the selection. then invert the colors with Ctrl+I.

Add a soft outer glow effect with a white color. The result may be this:

Create a new folder named “Body” and put all these layers inside it.
The first part is done!!
Step 8
Now let’s create the head of Eve. Choose the Oval tool (B) and draw a circle on the top of the body. Name this layer “Head”.
This layer has the same layer effects of the body. So if PS doen’t apply automatically, remeber to copy them from fthe “Front” Layer.
With the pen tool adjust the shape in the following way:

then adjust the inner glow and inner shadow effect values to make the head lighter with a soft shadow on the right side.
Let’ s add now the lighing as we have done before for the body.
First use the pen tool to draw a light beam on the left side of the head.

Let’s now add the lighting as before. Paste again the picture in a new layer named “Head light”. and alt+clic on the head layer mask and drag to the new layer so the light is masked with the head shape.

Step 9
Now we have to create the black mask.
With the Oval tool (B) draw a circle in the middle of the head, name the layer “Mask” and with the Pen toool (P) adjust the bézier curves to reach the following result

Now the mask is done.
Step 10
Add one eye, drawing a circle shape with the Oval tool (B) and modifying the shape with the pen tool. Name the layer Eye and fill with cyan/blu color R:19 G:142 B:229

Add, as Layer style, a outer Glow Effect with the same color.

Duplicate the “eye” layer. Trasform it with Ctrl+T and make the orizzontal opposit of the other. So you have both eyes.

Now select both eye’s layer and merge them with Ctrl+E
Step 11
Now duplicate the head light Layer and put it on top and change the blening mode to “Intense Light”
I have also trasformed a bit the size and shape of the head to best fit what we have to do. The result may be this.

Step 12
First create a folder named “Head” and put all the head layers inside of it.
Now let’s draw the left arm drawing an oval with the oval tool. Name the new layer “Arm” and copy the effects from the “Front” Layer (always with Alt+Clic). Adjust the values of inner shadow and inner glow.
Adjust with the Pen tool (P) the shape as following

Add the drop shadow effect using the overlay method and the following values

Now duplicate the Front light layer and put it on top of the arm. Then alt+Clic on the arm mask and drag it on the new light layer. So we can add reflections on the arm too.

Step 13
Duplicate the arm and its light layer, then tranform in orizzontal mirror. Her is the other arm.
Make a new folder and name it “Arms” and put all these four layers inside it.

Step 14
Make a new layer, draw with the Oval tool a black circle down Eve. Than apply the Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. with a value of 20px
Put this layer, named “Shadow” befor the others.

Step 15
Let’s add the final touch with the Background. Add a new layer named “Background” and fill it with a monotone shade. I choosed gray.










dicembre 15th, 2008 at 22:05
hi,
great work,really makes me say that is really great,keep it up.
I love u
dicembre 16th, 2008 at 04:19
Good tutorial, i thing this tutorial very useful for me..
Thx…
I hope yo will write the useful tutorial like this…
THX..
dicembre 16th, 2008 at 10:13
tnx a lot!
dicembre 16th, 2008 at 11:31
WOW thank you i love you too
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aprile 6th, 2009 at 20:52
this rules!!!
i love pixar for wall-e :]
aprile 9th, 2009 at 13:35
tnx.. post on the tumitu flickr group your version.. bye!!
maggio 16th, 2009 at 00:38
AWESOME!!!
know how to do wall-e, perhaps?
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