Drawing an Orange In Photoshop Tutorial
Sometimes its fun just to draw thing in Photoshop.
Here is an example of how I might make an orange.
Make a circular selection in the middle of your screen,
you can hold shift while making it to insure that
its a perfect circle. Fill your selection with an
orange radial gradient.

Create a new layer above your gradient, and while
you still have your orange selected choose Filter
> Render > Clouds. Make sure that before you
do this that your foreground color is white, and your
background color is black. Then choose Filter >
Artistic > Plastic Wrap, and use the options below.

Your new layer should look something like this. This
will be the beginning of our orange's texture.

While you still have your orange selection., choose
Filter > Distort > Spherize. Then change your
layer mode to "overlay." You should have
something like this:

Next we are going to make an indentation where the
stem would attach to the tree. Make a new circular
selection towards the top of your orange, and create
a new layer. Fill this selection with a black-white
gradient, making sure that the white portion is towards
the top. Deselect your gradient, and choose Filter
> Blur > Gaussian Blur. Choose an amount that
suits you, depending on how deep you want your indentation
to be. Here is how mine looks.

Now change the layer mode to "overlay"
and you should have a nice look bevel. Create a new
layer, and make a new selection inside your bevel,
this is going to be the little stem. Fill the selection
with brown radial gradient as shown below.

Next we are going to merge all of our layers except
the new stem layer you just created and the background.
To do this click on your bevel layer and press Ctrl+E
twice. You should now have three layers, your background
layer, the newly merged layer, and the stem layer.
While on your newly merged layer, choose Filter >
Pixelate > Crystallize. This is going to give the
orange a more rough/cartoony look.

Now lets add a shadow. Create a new layer above your
background layer, and use your circular selection
tool to make a shadow selection like the one below.
Fill your selection with gray.

For our last couple steps we are just going to add
a few small details. Create a new layer above all
of the others, and choose your paintbrush tool. Navigate
through the different brush types until you find the
"spatter" brush. Change your foreground
to white, and add some white spatter as shown below.
Use the same method to add some brown spatter towards
the bottom.

For the final step I simply added some final lighting.
This is easily done with the dodge/burn tools. The
dodge tool can be used to add light, while the burn
tool can be used to add shadow. Navigate to your orange
layer, and use these two tools to darken/lighten the
orange as needed. You can accentuate your stem bevel
towards the top of your orange by dodging the area
around left and bottom of it.

Here is how mine turned out! Looks like an orange
to me.
