A Work in Progress: Under the sea

This guide was made for entry:
Under the sea
In Contest:
street pawn

Original image

step 1 of 13

Use bricks from source...

step 2 of 13

Open pattern maker - generate full sheet of pattern.

step 3 of 13

Add a Gaussian blur.

step 4 of 13

Add a blue gradient...

step 5 of 13

Using a "light beam brush"
add some light coming into water...

Brush:
http://www.obsidiandawn.com/light-beams-photoshop-gimp-brushes

THANKS "OBSIDIAN DAWN"

step 6 of 13

From source pic ,
warp - twirl...

step 7 of 13

For the face...
Basically I warped the"ball" (top from source pic) into a face shape..and drew onto a separate layer.. then merged them and smudged to get final result.. added shadows/highlights using dodge and burn tool.

step 8 of 13

For the body:
Warped that ball again into
1: Neck, smudged + added highlights/shadows to get result.
2: Body, same technique used to the body.

step 9 of 13

For the jelly fish:
Warped the "ball" into jelly fish shape...then duplicate, twirl the ball to get the tentacles and add polar coordinates.
Copy/paste to create many...tentacles. ;)

step 10 of 13

Final result...

step 11 of 13

Start to add the jelly fish into the image...
duplicate twice..blur the other two jelly fish...
Add an outer glow to all three...

step 12 of 13

Add the lady to the image..

step 13 of 13

Add some highlights using the pen tool- stroke path...
Do this at various points where light is hitting...
then copy merged- duplicate image and add a soft light to top layer with 40% opacity..this will make the overall image more vibrant ...
walllaaaaaa...

Final result

Votes

user	voted
ankitsuhaill
dollmommy
hazem
hereisanoop
Katka
Score: 9.6

Comments

hereisanoop says:

very good

(5 years and 3467 days ago)

dollmommy says:

Great SBS......I could follow this easily...

(5 years and 3465 days ago)

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