Start with a simple white BG and use the pen tool to draw an outline of a head, fill with color gradient.
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step 2 of 11
Pen tool a body, I tried to draw legs, but I kept on crossing the lines over each other, so I started to smudge it at the bottom so I could add a tail. Anyway fill with color gradient and burn some edges for depth.
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Draw in Eyes with Pen tool, you might start seeing a theme here... and color gradient. Note: no feathering or it would loose that comic book feel/look.
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I duplicated these layers and added a guassian blur to them to make a glow effect.
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The tail is just a smoke brush warped from brusheezy.com follow the link if you want them.
sources used for this step:- : source
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Duplicated tail layer and added a gradient so it would match the rest of the body, this also helped hide the edges a little bit.
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added texture to body, head, and tail. Blending mode: soft light for body, and screen for tail.
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Darkened the sky with a levels/mask and a curves adjustment to the tail so it would stand out a bit from the BG.
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Added a Guassian blur to the BG and used a Gradient on the mask to make a semi-shallow DOF.
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Finally, I added a gradient to the whole image and set the blending mode to darken.
Final result
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