SugarSkull / Day of the Dead

 

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 16th September 2025, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

Supplies Needed:  

3 tubes of your choice

I am using 3 of my own AI tubes, which can be downloaded 

from my AI blog HERE

font of choice

a few brushes of choice

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Open blank canvas 750 x 250

c/p 3 tubes of choice

resize if necessary, but we want them fairly large to cover the canvas, 

position them left, right and middle to your liking.  

Don't worry if your middle tube is covering the side tubes, 

we are going to sort that out in a bit.

copy merged, hide the 3 tubes for now

paste as new layer

duplicate twice, mirror and flip one of the duplicates
merge the 2 duplicated together
adjust - blur - motion blur angle 90, strength 100
repeat twice

unhide the 3 tube layers

make the left tube active

change blend mode to screen, lower opacity to 62

duplicate blur - gaussian blur 16 - lower opacity to 54

repeat this for the right tube

now make middle tube active

change blend mode to hard light
use your eraser set to a nice grunge brush
and gently erase each side of the middle tube 

to uncover the left and right tubes a little

(now I found my middle tube was a bit too see through around the chin area so I did this)
duplicate and erase the top half of the tube
change blend mode back to normal.

Merge visible

select tool - custom selection - left 0, top 50, right 750, bottom 100
promote selection to layer
deselect

change blend mode to screen
effects - penta.com - jeans
amount 43, width 8

add some nice brushes on a new layer if you wish

finally new raster layer
floodfill with a color that matches your tag
select all, contract 2, delete
deselect

add your name, license and copyright information
merge all
save as jpg

To make the avatar

selection tool - custome selection

top and left 0, right and bottom 200

selections edit selection, move to a place of your liking

edit selection, copy merged

deselect

Paste as new image

selection tool  - rounded rectangle

draw out the selection almost as big as the canvas

invert

delete

invert

expand by 3

new raster layer

floodfill with color of choice

deselect

move this layer down 

Add you name

Merge visible

save as png

Batty about you

 

 This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 16th September 2025, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

Supplies HERE

Font of choice

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open blank canvas 800 x 800

floodfill white

c/p splatter

foreground color - #ffb006

background color - #fffbe6

make a fore/back gradient

sunburst, angle/repeats 0

preset shapes tool - ellipse 

hold down the shift key while your draw out a large circle in the middle of your canvas, 

Objects - align - center in canvas

convert to raster

Dodge Brush

settings : size 400, hardness 17, step 25, density 100, thickness 100, rotation 0, opacity 32

click in the middle of your circle twice

duplicate the circle

adjust - blur - gaussian blur 10

layers - arrange - move down

merge the two moon layers together

select all, float, defloat

new raster layer

floodfill with #d65a07

deselect

selection tool - circle - feather 50(ish)

draw out a large selection in the middle, but not quite to the edge

hit delete button several times until it looks how you like it

deselect

merge with the moon layer

c/p witch hat, resize 50

rotate left 21

position top left so it looks like its sitting on the moon 

(you may have to move your moon down the canvas a little)

using your freehand selection tool, feather set to 1

carefully select along the brim of the hat from one side of 

the moon to the other (see my screenshot)

hit delete

Deselect

dropshadow

If you want to add a bit more definition, 

then use your burn brush on the moon layer under 

the hat brim to make it look a bit more shadowed

c/p web, position top right 

erase any parts of the web that overlap the brim of the witches hat

dropshadow

c/p bat as new layer

resize 30

eye candy 5 impact - perspective shadow

position bottom right

c/p pumpkins, position bottom right, in front of bat

c/p spider, resize 50

position so its hanging from the web

duplicate and resize 70

position duplicate hanging from the witches hat

c/p beading

position along the brim of the hat

dropshadow

c/p wordart

add your name, license and copyright information 

delete white background layer

merge visible

crop and save as png

Halloween Moon

  This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 9th September 2025, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

 Supplies Needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the artwork of Misticheskaya

which can be purchased HERE

My scrapkit - Poison HERE

My supplies HERE

eye candy 4000 - corona

Font of choice

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open blank canvas 800 x 800

floodfill white

c/p speckle brush

c/p moon, resize 80, move towards the top of the tag slightly

add a corona using the following settings

el 93 from the kit, resize 90, position at bottom of tag/moon

haunted house, resize 60, position on top of grass

el 109, resize 30, bottom right

el 100, resize 30, place under the pumpkins

el 67, resize 10, duplicate several times and position to your liking around the top of the  house

c/p tube as new layer

resize to fit

dropshadow all elements

add your name, license and copyright information

delete white background

merge visible

crop and save as png

Death's Mistress

 

  This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 9th September 2025, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

supplies needed:  

tube of choice or the one included in the supplies

Supplies HERE

Font and Mask of choice

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open blank canvas 800 x 800

floodfill white

c/p el 1, resize 70

c/p el 2, resize 60, mirror

position on the right of el 1 so the hand is resting on top of the column

take your eraser set to around 

45-50, hardness 20, step 25, density 100, thickness 100, rotation 0, opacity 100

now erase the pink flowers until the pumpkin on the right of the door shows 

and it really makes the hand look like its resting on the column

c/p el 5, resize 50, position along the bottom of el 1

c/p el 3, resize 30, position bottom right

c/p el 4, resize 22, position just to the left of the cauldron

c/p el 6, position just to the left of el 4

c/p witch below the pink pumpkins but above the door

resize 50

position to the left

now open el 2 again, 

using your freehand selection tool, feather set to around 15, 

make a selection around the flowers

c/p as new layer, mirror

and position along the left side of your tube.

dropshadow all elements

hide white background layer, 

copy merged

paste as new layer

layers - view current only

duplicate the merged layer

flip and mirror

merge down

duplicate, mirror, merge down

adjust - blur - motion blur, angle 45, strength 100

repeat blur

apply mask of your choice

merge group

layers - view - all

c/p wordart, add your favourite gradient glow

now is the time to rearrange the elements to your liking

add your name, license and copyright information

delete white background layer

merge visible

crop and save as png