A Work in Progress: Left Behind



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Left Behind
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modern lighthouse


Original image


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first I chop out the light house

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next I used the marquee tools to make starting of the face used the oval and the square

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Then I flip it vertical

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warp it out to start the shape

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chopped out this part to make the eyes then put them in the eye areas and used dodge tool with shadow to start the eyes

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Chopped out this portion for the face area

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Add it in and warp to fit to the open nose area

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put on a black background to cover the bottom of the eye areas and then marque out small portion of the black for behind the eyes to avoid any white space under the eyes

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Took the face area and used burn tools to burn around the face to give more depth

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Next cut out this part as I was going to make it the nose part but then I just colored it black instead and burned the main face near the nose area more to give more depth again

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Used the burn tool to burn the eyeballs and again down around the face and bottom of nose again

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Next I use a round portion to make the upper and lower body and again burned for depth then warp it in

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Started the chop to use for both the box and wing areas

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Stretch out the chop portion for the wings, duplicate and add on

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Next I chop out a portion of the sky from the window and free transform and warp it around a bit and then duplicate it for the secondary part of the body area and added in and again more burn tool for depth

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chopped out a small piece of the metal area and warped it to make the antennas

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Next I wanted to make a bit of a spring so I used the marquee tool and filled in a silvery gradient

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warp the beginning of the spring

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Next warp and shrink down to add to the box and burn tool for more of a roundness to the spring

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Next add the spring behind the box then squash down a box ( made from the wing portion above) and squash down another and add in more springs then add it together and duplicate and distort for a shadow (shadow exposure dark - Gaussian Blur and lower the opacity)

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Making the rug area up front
take the light house and squash it down and then distort it sideways, duplicate it, and add about 4 sets together

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chop out the stone area on the lighthouse and distort it down a bit, and perspective to get it a bit more flat then a small tad of mid tone burn

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Chopped out a portion of the background and duplicated it with some spot healing and added together and gave a bit of a Gaussian blur around 1.8 % then took the main light house added that in and did the same and between the stone slab and backdrop a bit of burn to look like a crack between different walkways.

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Final result

Creation of Left Behind: Final Result

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