First off, was to create the head of the astronaut, starting eith a sphere render and image mapping.
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First step was easy for me. I went on to make rough sketch of shoulders, cut pieces of would, used Iwarp tool, some smugging and painting. Please, no external sources was ever used the entire project.
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i duplicated the shoulders and worked on the neck using brush iwarp on part of the wood cut, brush strokes and smugging.
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I then created the back pak using same wood cuts and pattern overlay with some smugging.