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A Work in Progress: Mountain Towers
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Mountain Towers
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street pawn
Original image
step 1 of 29
Cut out pawn
step 2 of 29
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Background gradient
step 4 of 29
Copied pawn and pasted the copy over the original pawn. Then I distorted it.
step 5 of 29
Copied and pasted the pawn as a step for the stairs.
step 6 of 29
Same process
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Painted some details
step 10 of 29
Created the shade by distorting the previously created fence.
step 11 of 29
Painting more details
step 12 of 29
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step 14 of 29
Copied building and pasted the copies across the landscape.
step 15 of 29
Started painting the moon. Forgot to mention that the copies were blurred to give the image some depth.
step 16 of 29
Distorted moon
step 17 of 29
Messing around with layer properties.
step 18 of 29
I was going to work with a desert scene, but it didn't work out so well. So I decided to go with a colder climate.
The old man, and birds were digitally painted.
step 19 of 29
Decided to use external source images to make it easier on me.
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Cut out sky.
step 21 of 29
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Matching colors between images.
step 25 of 29
Cut out sky from the landscape pic so I can place the mountain behind it.
step 26 of 29
Fixed the sky by repainting it.
step 27 of 29
Started painting details, and added some dense atmosphere.
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Painted shadow and made it partially transparent.
Final result
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