i cut out pieces from the wood and warped, added bevel and emboss.....used these pieces to shape and create bone structure.....
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more warped pieces....
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and some more....by creating various designs and re-warping, i got a nice variety of pieces to work with...
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layered pieces, duplicated, warped.....when everything was where i wanted, i merged them all together, and added a reddish orange omni blended on darken.....
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i copied the wood i cut out earlier, flipped, merged, then did the same vertically....
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i added luce light filter, then blurred heavily for soft background color....
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created another layer, filled with designs from "Fractal Brushes Set" by ~Mark-S on deviantart.com, reduced opacity of color layer to create a semi visible background