Avatar by GIMP

How did I draw avatar by GIMP 2

Pick favorite prototype image

1. Choose one topic for me:

• I like wind.
• Aquarius.
• I enjoy the time when fire burning during my childhood.
• Also I cherish the memory of cuckoo‘s singing.
• ...

1. Search Cuckoo simple to browse picture and download which interests me most as the prototype.(Then my body was full of power.)
2. Try different combination of every characters in "FireCuckoo" to replace the lines in prototype image. Dawn on papers, it‘s interesting.

Draw FireCuckoo by GIMP

GIMP is an open-source, cross-platform and powerful GNU Image Manipulation Program.

1. Search "GIMP", install, and open it.
2. File, New, width:1024, Height:1024, OK.
3. File, Open as layers...,choose the prototype image.
4. Ctrl L to open Layers Brushes, Ctrl B to open Toolbox, Tab key for open/Close them.
5. Right Click prototype.jpg, new layer, OK.
6. Find A icon in Toolbox, Set text size:256,color red.
7. Input "F".
8. Hit ESC: Back to select mode.
9. Shift R: rotate "F", Up & Down key is available. Shift T: move, scale "F". Enter: confirm modification.
10. Put "F" to the appropriate location where it can fit partial lines of prototype image.
11. Do Step 7 to 10 for every character in "FireCuckoo", notice that drag per-character layer on the front of prototype and background.
12. Adjust more to make it look better.
13. Layer, prototype image layer, Right Click, Delete Layer.
14. Layer: Right Click. Merge all layers down into Background.
15. File, Export.