A Work in Progress: Phoenix Queen

This guide was made for entry:
Phoenix Queen
In Contest:
peacock

Original image

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These are the part from the source image that I'll use to make the face of the Phoenix Queen

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Resize the beak to fit the area from the nose to the mouth of the girl

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Use the liquify function to make the eyes bigger

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Place the peacock eyes on the eyes of the girl

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Use the clipping mask on the eyes, draw the reflection of the light by white hard brush

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Put the area beyond the peacock eye onto the face

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Distort this area to fit the face, especially the edge of the eye, then erase the unnecessary parts

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Blend some skin between the beak and the eyes, use eraser to gradually delete the overlapping area

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Use the same piece from step 7, blend to the area beyond the cheek

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use the neck part of the peacock, distort a bit to fit the neck of the girl, then blend to that area

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The remaining part of the neck was made by the same way

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Blend the forehead part

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Use the neck of the peacock, increase the size, blend to the finished part on the neck, randomly erase some part to reduce the repeating pattern.

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Finish the forehead

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Use the Select color range function to extract the hair from the source, put on the head of the Queen

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Now convert the hair by this steps:
1. Filter -> Stylize -> Glowing Edges: Edge Width: 1, Edge Brightness: 20, Smoothness: 14
2. Change the Hue/Saturation by these parameter: colorize the layer: hue: 185, saturation: 74, lightness: 7 (originally I want to make the blue fire).
3. Duplicate this layer, Gaussian blur by 4 pixels radius.
4. Blend to the beyond layer by Screen mode.
Use Action to repeat that step to all hair layers

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Change the hue of the hair layers into red.
I won't use this background

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Change the hue of the hair layers into orange, use eraser tool to gradually erase from the outside to the inside of the hair

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Duplicate the hair layers one more time, change the hue to yellow, use eraser to erase by the radial direction. Put the flame background to the bottom layer, Lens blur. Change the hue of the body to orange also

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Extract the parrot wing, put on the top layer

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Make clipping mask layer on top of the wing layer. Use soft red brush to paint the edge of the feather

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Make one more clipping mask layer, paint the orange and yellow color inside the feathers

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Extract a part of the fire from the source, put on the wings, use eraser to gradually erase the edges

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Peacock feathers and mask are added to the Queen

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Make new layer on top of the hair layers, change the blending mode to overlay, then use the yellow soft brush to paint over the hair to make it looks like fire. On some areas, use the color blending mode to change from red to yellow

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Final result

Votes

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DYNOSSAURUS
loopyluv
hereisanoop
Score: 9.33

Comments

hereisanoop says:

fantastic

(5 years and 3494 days ago)

Pxleyes

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