This tutorial is devoted to drawing funny pretty rabbits using Adobe Photoshop. You may use them for designing a postcard or something else. Completing the tutorial, you will apply different brush manipulations and also a few layer styles.

Final image preview:

Step 1:

Create a new document of 1200×800px. Fill the background with black color.

Step 2:

Using pen tool, draw a contour of the rabbit:

Then its head’s contour:

And after that the ears:

Step 3:

Remove imperfections of the contour with the help of direct selection tool (A). After that select the entire contour:

Notice that the path becomes selected:

Right click on it and choose “Make Selection” with feather radius 1:

Step 4:

At a new layer fill the selection with white color:

Click on the layer’s icon and choose “Duplicate Layer”. Move the copy as shown below:

Step 5:

Apply Free Transform (Ctrl+T) option to decrease the copy:

Step 6:

At a new layer use brush tool to fix some disadvantages of the figures (use white color):

Now choose this brush:

Apply it to attach a glowing effect. Outline the contours of the rabbits (do not forget to create a new layer!)

Step 7:

This step is devoted to brush presets and working with the brush panel. We will return to the rabbits a bit later. Now create a new document of 20×60 px. Using rectangle tool (U) draw a rectangle like this one:

The shape’s color must be black:

Go to “Edit->Define Brush Preset”

Step 8:

Return to the rabbits! Press “F” several times to return to the document with the bunnies. Open the window containing the brushes. At the end there must appear the new brush you added! Now go to the brush panel situated here:

The settings you need to make the bunnies fluffy are below:

Outline the contours of the bunnies at a new layer as you did it with the soft brush. Look at the result:

Step 9:

Let’s decorate the background behind the rabbits. Use pen tool (P) to draw hills behind the rabbits (do it at a new layer):

The color is #03180d.

Take a standard brush tool with the grass and create a layer again. There draw some grass around the rabbits, changing the brushes’ color from lighter to darker:

Step 10:

The easiest and funniest step is drawing the bunnies’ faces. A little advise: to attach them a funny look draw the eyes at different distance: one should be higher and the other one-lower. Draw the rabbits smiling! The smile will look nice if you draw it with the pen tool. I used color #5400ff for the eyes and #ff0066 for the smiles. Look:

Step 11:

Load some brush preset containing stars. At a new layer click once at the sky. (To load brushes, go here).

You should also choose a big brush of 199px and draw the moon. Then, take an eraser sized 150px and click on the moon to achieve this result:

Step 12:

And the last thing is adding a glowing effect to the stars and moon. Go to “Layer->Add a Layer Style->Outer Glow”:

This is the end! I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and it was useful for you.