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  • I've created simple panda silhouette with thee several spots and 8 shades of gray, glack and white.
  • The panda's body pose is from the real panda photo.
  • You don't need to draw body from scratch, you may use any actual panda photo. Just separate animal image from background.

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

  • Apply Gaussian Blur Filter to panda layer(~3-5px). The background should be transparent.

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

  • Download hair brushes. Choose Smudge Tool and one of the hair brush. Adjust strength 70%. Move this tool from inside part to the panda color spots to edgest. Try different size brushes to find which one is working better for different areas.

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

  • After creating fur, add several sharp details.
  • You may draw nose with the small brushes or just paste nose from the panda photo or other animal photo with the similar anatomy.

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

  • Create small eyes with the regular Ellipse Tool, apply preset Photoshop style "Black Anodized Metal" to them.

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

  • Draw small nails with the regular small brush (2-4px).

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

  • Place pandas above the text layers.

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

  • Group all layers except the background. Duplicate the group. Merge duplicated group. Go to Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical.
  • Move this layer down to create reflection. Place this layer below pandas & text group and above the background and white spot.

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

  • Add Layer Mask to the reflection layer. Fill it with the black and white linear gradient.

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

  • Set Opacity 30% for the reflection layer.

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

  • Ctrl + Click layer Layer Mask, to load selection for the white part of the Mask Gradient. Go to Select > Inverse Selection in order to select bottom part of reflection. Make active reflection layer thumbnail (not the Mask).

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

  • Apply Motion Blur filter to the selected area of reflection.

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

  • Duplicate reflection layer. Apply Multiply Blending Mode to it and Opacity 100%.
  • Fill it with the layer mask with the Black and white gradient but in the very top part.

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

  • Duplicate previous Multiply Blending Mode layer, remove and apply gradient Layer Mask.
  • Apply Gaussian Blur Filter to this layer.

Cute baby panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

  • Shrink this layer by vertical, make it 50%-60% smaller.

Panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

  • Apply dark green color effect to this shape.

Panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

  • Play with layer Opacity to find better setting for natural looking shadow:

Panda & Bamboo text effect Pandas and realistic fresh and green bamboo plant illustration

And here is the result!

In this Photoshop tutorial  learn how to create cute baby panda illustration and realistic Bamboo Text Effect

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