A Work in Progress: Rasta Man

This guide was made for entry:
Rasta Man
In Contest:
drum beats

Original image

step 1 of 27

First masked the ropes to create the hair later

step 2 of 27

Placed my outside source the way I wanted, so I could use them as reference.

step 3 of 27

Used the wooden part of the drum. Blurred it and the applied a photo filter

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Now the fun part!
Masked the wood then used burn and dodge to create the face.
Eyebrows done with the tablet.

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Eyes done in photoshop, using my tablet, burn and dodge.

step 6 of 27

Used the wooden part of the other drum to do the tongue.
Applied a photo filter and played with hue/saturation and brightness/contrst. Again worked using burn and dodge.

step 7 of 27

used the white part of the drum to do the teeth.
Masked it then applied a slight yellow photo filter. Burn and dodge.
Gums were painted in photoshop.

step 8 of 27

Masked the upper part of the cord.
Applied a red photo filter, copied and pasted it several times, then merged them.
Warp to finish.

step 9 of 27

same work with the yellow and green parts.
Then merged them all and used burn and dodge.

step 10 of 27

Using the outside source t-shirt I created a displacement map.
To do so I had to take out the writing on the t-shirt and also make it one colour.

step 11 of 27

scaled a piece of the drum base

step 12 of 27

Finished work with 3 layers and different blendings and opacities.

step 13 of 27

Again used the blurred drum base for the arms.

step 14 of 27

copied and pasted the nail parts, then played with hue/saturation then brightness/contrast.
Worked on the arm and hand using burn and dodge.

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Halfway through

step 16 of 27

One arm finished.

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Starting work on the second arm

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Both arms finished

step 19 of 27

Used the smaller drum.
Free transform and warp to get the right perspective.

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Lower part of the small drum used to create the pants.
Photo filter, then burn.

step 21 of 27

Used the cords I had masked for the dreadlocks.
Rotated and warp

step 22 of 27

Masked the dreadlock in front, added and warped some more behind the head, then applied a photo filter to them.

step 23 of 27

This part was used to create an earing. Only rotated it, masked it then applied a yellow photo filter.

step 24 of 27

Again used the wodden part of the big djembe to create the sand.
Scaled it , then blur than photo filter and brightness.

step 25 of 27

Same work for the sea.
This time applied a blu filter and scaled it differently.

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To create the sky I exaggerated the vertical scale and blurred it more.
Brightness to its maximum.

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Tree bark used to create the palm tree.
Warp, then blur, photo filter, burn and dodge.

Final result

Votes

user	voted
ice
Jacu
ponti55
IDt8r
annabat
nasirkhan
pingenvy
akasha
SOLARIS
arkncheeze
Nator
GolemAura
gopankarichal
GolemAura
nishagandhi
Score: 10

Comments

nishagandhi says:

great sbs!!!!!

(5 years and 3940 days ago)

gopankarichal says:

great work!!good SBS

(5 years and 3940 days ago)

nasirkhan says:

Great work and great SBS

(5 years and 3939 days ago)

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