Draw a cartoon Bomb
03-01-2006 | Last editted on 05-07-2010 16615 views
Create the cartoony bombs from Zelda:Windwaker with this tutorial. You can use this for logo's or signatures to give that extra bit of explosion! A great tutorial to learn the basics of drawing and creating your own cell-shaded icons.
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Introduction
Learning how to draw simple and iconic may look easy, but actually pretty tricky. Nevertheless, it's one of my favorite forms of drawing. It's always a challenge to visualise an object as simple, yet as stylish as possible. In this tutorial, I will teach you how to use simple shapes to create a fancy cartoon-bomb like in Zelda The Wind Waker.
Easy peasy
Start off by grabbing the Circular Marquee-Tool and while holding SHIFT, drag a perfect circle in the middle of your document. Then grab your Gradient-Tool and set it to Radial and choose a nice Blue color as your foreground color and the same color as your background color, BUT move the slider a little bit down to make it a little darker. Click in the right-middle and move to the bottom-left. You should have a nice circle.



With the same gradient, use the Elliptical Marquee-Tool to draw a long and thin oval shape. On a new layer, fill this selection with the gradient. Press V to select your Move-Tool and while holding ALT, press UP a few times to make the shape a little longer. Then select all the layers, except for the last duplicate and merge those layers together using CTRL+E. Press CTRL+U and drag the lower slider a little to the left. Merge the 2 layers together and move the shape to the top of the bomb.



A very simple and fun way to make a bomb like those cute Wind Waker-bombs. Not much to it, but making other Wind Waker-objects. If you got any others, post them in the comments-section! You can also make this bomb in Illustrator if you want to keep it a vector ofcourse. Also try to experiment with other very easy shapes like a Bowling-Ball or fruit? Thanks for reading and have fun!
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