A Work in Progress: The Lady Behind the Mask



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This is Cornelia's photo that I have used.

Creation of The Lady Behind the Mask: Step 1

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I made a random selection from Cornelia's hair using the pen tool.

Creation of The Lady Behind the Mask: Step 2

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I copied/pasted the piece of hair multiple times and rotated it keeping the center always in the same position to render a round shape.

Creation of The Lady Behind the Mask: Step 3

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Merged all hair layers from step 3 and created the new hair shape and fringe.

Creation of The Lady Behind the Mask: Step 4

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Finished hair.

Creation of The Lady Behind the Mask: Step 5

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Added wings and neck pattern by using the same hair shape but resized it bigger and colored it slightly.

Creation of The Lady Behind the Mask: Step 6

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Added mask and eyebrows.
For the mask I changed blending mode to hard light to make it see through and colored it in deep red.

Creation of The Lady Behind the Mask: Step 7

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Added tiara by using the same shape and rewarped it slightly for perspective purposes.

Creation of The Lady Behind the Mask: Step 8

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Did some coloring and added gaussian blur to the wings. Also changed blending mode for wings to screen to make them glow.

Creation of The Lady Behind the Mask: Step 9

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Did more coloring using a soft brush in different tones of pink (light pink for highlights and dark pink for shadows).

Creation of The Lady Behind the Mask: Step 10

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Added glitter.

Creation of The Lady Behind the Mask: Step 11
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Finally added a gradient adjustment layer, changed blending mode to overlay to light up the whole image and specially the left side of the face.

Creation of The Lady Behind the Mask: Step 12

Final result

Creation of The Lady Behind the Mask: Final Result

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