A Work in Progress: The Escape of War Horses



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Extract the horses by pen tool

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Use the metal drain pattern to make the horseshoes

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Distort the pattern by the free transformation to fit the horseshoes, also make the metal shield on the chests of the horse

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Cut out the speaker from the source, put it in front of the metal shields

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Cut out the golden pocket watch to make the electronic eye of the right horse

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Cut out the sphere from the source

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Put the sphere to the centers of the shields

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Cut out the technical part of the car from the source

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Use this part to make the knee protectors for the horses

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4 of them are enough, use distortion to fit the knees

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Make the connectors extruding from the knee protectors by pen and shadowing using the blending control

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Cut out a part of the vintage car to make the front part of the horse (I don't know how to call, sorry)

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Erase all of the horse hair, also clear the original background of the horse by pen and eraser tools.

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The bottom parts of the horse's legs were made by selecting these region (pen tool), then duplicate this layer, apply the glass filter (in distort filters group) with the tiny lens pattern: distortion: 10, smoothness: 0, scaling: 50%.

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Cut out some parts on the armor, distort a little bit the fit the region between the front legs and the body of the horse. Duplicate layers to make the iron part around the legs

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make the damaged area on the face of the right horse: choose the region covering a part of the face and the eye of the horse, duplicate the layer, go to filter sketch -> halftone pattern, select the line pattern. Duplicate the original layer to make a upper layer, apply the chrome filter, then blend to the below layer by overlay option.

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Draw the hair by brush tool (I use the Wacom tablet)

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Draw the hair of the right horse by black - brown brush

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Draw the tails

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Improve the photo by burn and dodge tools, make the sphere glowing (duplicate the sphere layer, increase brightness and blur out the below layer, make the inner glowing for the upper layer)

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make the background: the sand is connected to the mountain by gradient deletion of the upper layer (the mountain), merge two layer, reduce brightness, increase contrast. make the dust layer below and beyond the horse layers (brush with low opacity, blur out)

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Put the moon behind the mountain, make it glowing by the same method with the sphere, slightly erase the lower region

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make the star layer (use the star brushes of PTS), the castle (castle brush, blur), the beam from the left horse by pen, fill with white, make it glow, then delete the far area by gradient.

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Final result

Creation of The Escape of War Horses: Final Result

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