A Work in Progress: The arts teacher



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The arts teacher
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step 1 of 9

I used the CMYK46 avatar and these dummies for reference.

Creation of The arts teacher: Step 1

step 2 of 9

Make the sketch

Creation of The arts teacher: Step 2

step 3 of 9

Fill a new layer with a light brown and pick a drak brown for the background color, go to menu Filter > Render > Fibers to create the wood texture.
Cut some parts of the new texture to make the chalkboard frame, merge these layer when finished
On a new layer behind the frame fill a layer with a dark green to complete the chalkboard.

Creation of The arts teacher: Step 3

step 4 of 9

Select the frame layer and go to menu, Layer > Layer Style.... apply drop shadow, belvel and emboss, and satin with a dark brown

Creation of The arts teacher: Step 4

step 5 of 9

Begin to draw the basic shapes, I changed a bit the positon of the figures here.

Creation of The arts teacher: Step 5

step 6 of 9

Warp the textures to make them fit to the bodies and begin to paint thee shadows

Creation of The arts teacher: Step 6
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step 7 of 9

Improve the shadows ans add some details using some layers in multiply mode

Creation of The arts teacher: Step 7

step 8 of 9

Use another layer in overlay mode to make the highlights

Creation of The arts teacher: Step 8

step 9 of 9

Make a new layer and fill it with a light brown, on another layer in front of this one apply menu Filter > Noise > Add Noise... and set the blending mode for this layer to overlay, reduce the opacity of this layer to make only a subtle texture effect.
Do the same for the ground texture, in this case merge both layers and tranform them to make the perspective.
Add some brush strokes to the wall and to the floor to make them look a bit rough
Draw the hair with a brush made of a thin line and finished

Creation of The arts teacher: Step 9

Final result

Creation of The arts teacher: Final Result

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Comments

avatar bluerose
bluerose says:

wow , Great work!!!

(5 years and 3644 days ago)
avatar dmspaulding07

Nicely done, I just showed this to my niece whom is 2, and she said "look its Bert and Ernie... but who is that?"

(5 years and 3644 days ago)