Mysfytts fake Gingerbread House

[Mysfytt]

I didn't feel like making one so I painted it in Photoshop instead. Mine usually have a sagging roof .



* And if it looks familiar that's because I am the same Mysfytt from DC who designed the base for the house last year - so I just painted the same thing. It's my idea of the quintessential gingerbread house anyway - and like the real thing, painting on all those fiddly lollies took the longest.

[Mysfytt]

Someone Pmed me to ask how i did it, they had Paint. Not sure if Paint is able to do it because it doesn't have the brush variety photoshop does - but here is the explanation I gave them anyway just in case anyone else wants to know so they can have a go.

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um Ok - I am not sure what brushes MS Paint has but I'll do my best. Most was made using a solid edge brush and a fuzzy edge brush which is 2nd and 3rd on the brush list - at varying sizes and opacities. The dappling on the house was a brush called spatter at a large size. I had the outline from the sprite I did as a bezeor curve - so I was able to bring it into a new document and start from there.

I sourced the colors from the sprite using the eyedropper and solid filled it the center color before doing the lighter shades and darker shades either side of it. I also blurred the finished house fill a bit so it wasn't so sharp with the spattering. The outline was drawn on a different layer so it stayed the same.

I don't know how to explain any of it any better because after that i just sat there and thought of stuff to put on and draw it - I started with the icicles on new layer using the hard brush on white and did them, then switched to a smaller fuzzy brush at only 40 percent opacity or so and did a shadow in light blue. The same with the snow and window frames.

The rest is made in a similar fashion - just drawn.
I always use a different layer for a new shape, and repeat it by copying that layer. I used hue to change the colors, especially the cashus on the roof and the window glass and icing border - and used transform to make them the right angle if it was different - for the icing border bits.