Original image
step 1 of 24
Made a 2 color gradient for the sky background, and then used the pen tool w/ a fill to make my volcano ridge
step 2 of 24
made the stars w/ a 1px and 2 pixel round brushes set at opacity 22-ish percent and for the brighter starts just clicked a bunch of times. Painted a color glow behind the ridge
step 3 of 24
I took 3 selections of the acorn and warped them to sort of fit over my volcano shapes, and then I selected the volcano shape and reverse selection and deleted what was outside the borders. then I erased 2 parts of the image (where you see the weird round parts)
step 4 of 24
I used the smudge tool, with a one of PS's texture brushes (pretty small) and blended the volcano ridge together. Then I desaturated the mountains, then used adjust hue to give just the slighted blue tone.
step 5 of 24
I started painting the tree, using a spotty PS brush, just blocking in different colors of green to get the shape.
I made a copy of the mountain layer and messed with colors and put the layer on exclusion mode.
I made a copy of the mountain layer and messed with colors and put the layer on exclusion mode.
step 6 of 24
more painting for the tree. I was using a very small texture brush at 80-95 % and just scribbled darks/lights and then smudged and scribbled and smudged more over and over.
step 7 of 24
I did a really rough sketch on paper and scanned it in (all the sketches I made in PS looked goofy) here I did a rough placement of where I wanted to paint the tiki man, and I erased a good portion of the white part of the scan.
step 8 of 24
selected parts of acorn and roughly place over sketch, warping and scaling.
step 9 of 24
oops, sorry last step I had painted the clouds. I used a texture brush and a soft round brush and varied the size, very low opacity and slowly built up the colors. (blue/white/pink/orange/yellow)
Tiki head, was two different acorn selections both being warped.
Did start of face w/ pen tool and fill.
Tiki head, was two different acorn selections both being warped.
Did start of face w/ pen tool and fill.
step 10 of 24
used pen tool to select the shape of tiki sketch, used it for a selection, and deleted.
step 11 of 24
Made selection of acorn, and warped it over the "ground"
step 12 of 24
desaturated the ground, did noise filter at a little over 1% and then I blended the ground and volcano w/ smudge tool using a small texture brush setting
step 13 of 24
I made the spear shaft with the rounded rectangle tool, and then did the spear head w/ the pen tool.
step 14 of 24
started playing with colors painting over the tiki with warm colors and low opacity, and I worked on the tree a long time, painting and blending, started adding the reflection of the colors of the color that are in the sky.
step 15 of 24
worked on the tree more, and I used the rounded rectangle tool to make the torch shape and adjusted it to be thinner at the bottom using transform. I painted the flames with the same spotty texture brush from photoshop, building up colors from dark to light over each other. (reds/orange/yellow)
step 16 of 24
painted smoke behind flame layer using, dark gray/blue, gray and light gray (low opacity on brush)
step 17 of 24
used acorn for texture for the torches. warped them, and then used the torch shape I made before to get rid of the excess.
step 18 of 24
adjusted the colors for torches using levels, and painting.
step 19 of 24
used the top portion of the acorn and warped to make skirt. Painted in necklace and tiki and spear ties using a small texture brush at 97%
step 20 of 24
finished warping the skirt on tiki guy.
step 21 of 24
painted the volcano fire much in the same way as the fire for the torches, only part of it was a large spotted texture brush to make the "Spiting" parts of the fire. Painted the rivulets of lava with small texture brush.
step 22 of 24
painted little skull for necklace.
step 23 of 24
made the face
step 24 of 24
this step and between this step and the final, is just a LOT of shading/highlighting/ smudging.
I also did the textures on the tree truck, by taking the skirt portion of the tiki that I made from the acorn and used that very small up and down the trunk.
I also did the textures on the tree truck, by taking the skirt portion of the tiki that I made from the acorn and used that very small up and down the trunk.
Final result
Votes
| user | voted |
| thomasms |  |
| DigitalDreamer | |
| 8DX | |
| 8DX | |
| hymerion | |
| hymerion | |
| nishagandhi | |
| Nellista | |
| Milena | |
| tysambouille | |
| hsbee | |
| Mario | |
| themadrone | |
| scampiehot | |
| digitalia | |
| boogeyman | |
| loopyluv | |
| Lodd | |
| RGB | |
| nasirkhan | |
| Score: 10 | |
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Very detailed SBS... now im gonna go and try to make fire that good...i'll be back in a few weeks....
(5 years and 4052 days ago)Very detailed SBS... now im gonna go and try to make fire that good...i'll be back in a few weeks....
(5 years and 4052 days ago)fantastic job
(5 years and 4052 days ago)Cool!!
(5 years and 4052 days ago)great job!
(5 years and 4046 days ago)wonderful sbs and job on your tiki creation
(5 years and 4041 days ago)