Drawing a Pencil Icon in Photoshop

A pencil is a writing implement or art medium usually constructed of a narrow, solid pigment core inside a protective casing. The case prevents the core from breaking, and also from marking the user's hand during use.

Today I will show you, how to create a shiny pencil in Photoshop. I hope you will really enjoy this tutorial. I will tell you witch tools and effects used in this tutorial.

Tutorial Details:

Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Estimated Completion Time: 1 Hour 30 MintsPencil Icon in Photoshop - Final Preview

Final Preview

Tools and Resources

Tools and Resources

Photoshop Tools

Rectangle Tool

Brush Tool

Polygonal Lasso Tool

Gradient Tool

Pen Tool

Ellipse Marquee Tool

Lets start to ; create a shiny pencil icon in Photoshop.

Step 1

Create a new file with White color

#ffffff, size 600x500.

Create New Document

Step 2

Select the

rectangle tool from the tool panel and create a rectangle named it body, fill it any color as you like, I fill this rectangular with this color #26c6c1.

Create a rectangle

Step 3

Now select the body layer and applying gradient overlay.

Gradient Overlay

Gradient Overlay

After applying gradient overlay we get cool background of pencil.

Get Cool Background

Step 4

To make our pencil more attractive go to

Image - Adjustment - Curves, (Commend+M), now adjust it as below in image.

Curves

Step 5

Now duplicate the body layer named it color and change the blending option gradient to

color overlay with this purple color #c101a8.

Duplicate The Body Layer

Now go to blend mode and decrease the opacity to 60%.

After Decrease Opacity

Step 6

Now one more time duplicate the first body layer and move it top of the layers, named it Metal and select the selection tool (M) and cut the metal layer as like show in preview.

Cut The Selection Area

Now select the

Ellipse Marquee Tool (M) and draw a circle like show in picture below and cut the metal layer.

Delete Slected Area

After cut the metal layer we get some thing as like shown in preview.

After Cut Metal Layer

Step 7

Now Select the

pen tool and draw a path like shown in picture below.

Use Pen Tool

After creating path and right click on path choose the

Make Selection option and delete the selected path. Step 8

Now duplicate the Metal layer and applying some blending option.

Bevel and Emboss

Bevel and Emboss

Gradient Overlay

Gradient Overlay

Step 9

After applying these effect, select the pen tool and draw a path and after draw path, click on the selecting place and select the,

make selection option and press the delete button.

Cut The Selecting Area

Now go to

edit - transform and minimize the duplicate layer size to made pencil style, then duplicate this layer again 5 or 6 time and made a design like a back side of pencil.

Back Side Design

;Step 10

Now duplicate the metal layer named it eraser and move to the right side, as like in picture below.

Draw Back Side

Now applying the Hue Saturation, go to

image - adjustment - Hue saturation or press (Ctrl+U), set Hue: 222%, Saturation: 30%, Lightness: -56, and check on the colorize box.

Hue Saturation

When we applying hue saturation, we get a cool eraser as like in picture below.

Get Cool Eraser

Step 11

Now select the polygonal lasso tool and draw pencil tip, and select any soft brush and fill the color in pencil tip

#ffc600, as like shown in preview.

Pencil Tip

Now duplicate the pencil tip layer and applying hue saturation. Set hue 33%, saturation 53%, and lightness +37%.

Hue Saturation

Select the ellipse tool and draw a circle to erase the body and color both layer, as like you see below.

Cut The Both Body And Color Layer

Step 12

duplicate one more time pencil tip layer and applying this effect.

Filter - Render - Fibers, use 10% for both variables and press ctrl+t and rotate it clock wise 90 degrees and scale it as shown awesome preview.

Get Awesome Preview

Now one more time select the

ellipse marquee tool and draw a circle and cut the duplicate pencil tip layer like in picture below.

Ellipse Tool

Step 13

Now select the original pencil tip layer and apply hue saturation press

ctrl+U, set saturation -100% and hit Ctrl+L and apply these settings. This will make the tip darker and high contrast.

Noke Style

After applying this effect we get perfect pencil noke as shown picture below.

Get Perfect Noke

Step 14

Now select all the layer and press

ctrl+E to merge them, named it pencil, then duplicate the pencil layer and name it shadow and apply black color #000000,

Go to

filter - Blur - Gaussian blur, and set as like shown below.

Shadow

Step 15

Now in the last step duplicate again pencil layer and set it down the shadow layer, and select all layer and press

ctrl+T, or go to edit - transform, and rotate them anti clock wise and set this layer opacity till 30%. You can see this complete awesome pencil icon in final preview.Final Preview