Drawing a grim reaper using photoshop

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Welcome to another one of our drawing tutorials. I am going to show you how I drew a Grim Reaper and how you can go about drawing it too. The Grim Reaper has been used in many comics and cartoons like family guy and south park many times.

The final result:



Here are a few small size images I made that you can use if you want:



Drawing the basic shape

Lets begin. Open a new document, I used the size 800x800px with a white background. Start by drawing the shape as shown in the image below on a new layer, name it main layer:



If you're having a problem drawing the shape above you can download the shape by clicking this image:

Fill the shape with the color code: #434e40 and add a black stroke 1px.



Strokes, strokes and more strokes

Create a new layer call it strokes. Draw the path shown in the image below:



Keeping your foreground color black, stroke the path with your brush at 1px(we will be using 1px for all the strokes), and then delete it.



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