My idea was for a spider like person. I did a really rubbish sketch of my idea as I can't draw to well, just to give me some indication of body position and leg position.
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i cut off the insect legs and made several copies, enhancing them with a bit of dodge and burn. The jacket is made from the back of the bug, usiing dodge and burn to create the shapes of the jacket. The T-shirt is made from the tail of the bug, using warp,liquify and dodge and burn to get the folds into it. The face and hands are vectorized shapes using a skin tone colour, then dodged and burned to add features.
step 3 of 5
this is the creature constructed, I used flaming pear flood filter to add the water reflections.
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The cave is just sevral layers of brush work,using a large softish brush initially, then some smudge work and finally some dodge and burn to add fissures and cracks.