- 1). Get or take a photo of someone whose image you'd like to add horns to.
- 2). Digitize the photo if it's not already digitized. Import the image to your hard drive by following the instructions with your digital camera or scanner.
- 3). Make a printout of the photo.
- 4). Trace, onto tracing paper or plain typing paper, just the outline and obvious lines of the figure. Don't trace over the background or other details.
- 5). Determine what view of the figure the image is showing. For example, ask yourself if you can see the figure's front, left, right or sides. You'll use this information to determine how you'll draw the horns.
- 6). Draw, on a separate piece of paper, an oval. This represents the base of the horn. Lightly draw a line that splits the oval through its longest dimension, which is called its long axis.
- 7). Position your pencil at the midpoint of the split line you just drew, then lightly draw a line perpendicular to the split line. Extend this line until it's a short distance away from the oval's outer perimeter. Draw a point at this place. This point represents the horn's tip.
- 8). Draw lines connecting the horn's tip point and the ends of the oval's split line from step seven. This completes the horn, which is shown in an oblique view, as though you were viewing it from an angle.
- 9). Repeat steps six through eight to draw several more horns. Vary the viewpoint of each horn by experimenting with different oval shapes and different distances of the horn tip to the spline line. For example, an oval whose long axis is much greater than its short axis represents a viewpoint showing almost all of the horn's length. When you can match the viewpoint of the horn to that of the figure you traced in step four, go to the next step.
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Draw horns on the figure, ensuring that the viewpoint of the horns matches the figure's viewpoint. - 11
Locate the image of a background appropriate for the figure you just made. For example, if your figure is devilish, find a photo with flames and writhing, tortured bodies in the background. - 12
Color the finished image using markers or colored pencils. Don't worry about realistic colors. Instead, use colors that fit the figure, background and mood of the composition. Warm colors like red and orange suggest action and conflict, while cooler colors like blue and green suggest calm and harmony.
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