A Work in Progress: PXL Mascot

This guide was made for entry:
PXL Mascot
In Contest:
sowing wheel

Original image

step 1 of 15

First I took the area where the chain goes around and chopped out a small piece for the ears and then liquefy them to give them shape of ears

step 2 of 15

Next step where the holes are in the wheel by the chain area the larger area I use these for the eye settings

step 3 of 15

Then I merge the ears area and eyes area together

step 4 of 15

Then I chop out the eyes of the owl from http://www.sxc.hu/photo/695672

and add them in where the holes are for the eyes and do some clone stamping to the face and healing to blend and more liquefy

sources used for this step:

: source

step 5 of 15

Then I chopped out the area that had some pinkish color around the same spoke area

step 6 of 15

Then I pull in to liquefy to make it look like a nose

step 7 of 15

Here it is when liquefyed

step 8 of 15

Then I chop out an area for the beginning of the neck area

step 9 of 15

I then free transform the cut rectangle to make the neck and merge the face area with the neck

step 10 of 15

I then added a little shirt to the mascot and some text and began to cut out the rounded part of the wheel in the front the longer part as shown

step 11 of 15

Then I used the same area for the upper arm to make the lower arm and then chopped out this piece for the start of the hand

step 12 of 15

Here is the hand I started to do some liquefy and free forming to start the fingers of the hand area and then doubled the and added extra fingers and then used cloning tools to blend it in with the res of the arm

step 13 of 15

Then I just added in some shading and more blending to my mascot.
Once I did that I made a gradient background

step 14 of 15

Took the original wagon wheel area and free formed it to twist it for a back ground area

step 15 of 15

Then just brought down opacity of the twisted wheel and blended to background and added in my mascot to the center of the background and added a bit of a drop shadow on.

Final result

Pxleyes

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