A Work in Progress: Divine Serenity...

This guide was made for entry:
Divine Serenity...
In Contest:
peacock

Original image

step 1 of 22

Parts used from source picture.

step 2 of 22

Start to build the horse.
Make new layer on top of your reference layer.

step 3 of 22

Make the leg, using the "neck" part from source. Warp into place.

step 4 of 22

step 5 of 22

Using smudge tool with a soft brush, smudge parts of leg to create more realistic "horse" leg.

step 6 of 22

Warp other leg and smudge the same way.

step 7 of 22

step 8 of 22

Create the neck of the horse (well the Pegasus ;)

step 9 of 22

Using the top fluffy part of the peacock, make the tail and the mane.

step 10 of 22

Duplicate and warp..

step 11 of 22

Create front leg in the same way as the other leg.

step 12 of 22

step 13 of 22

2nd front leg...

step 14 of 22

Smudge part taken from source picture; to create horse face.

step 15 of 22

Add texture to the face and shadows using burn and smudge to get right tones.

step 16 of 22

Create wing, by individually warping the part from the source pic , the "peacock feather"
Duplicate and build the wing using the reference.

step 17 of 22

Horse ready to get shaded...

step 18 of 22

On a new document, bring in your horse (layers grouped so you can work on the shading)
Create render clouds for background.

step 19 of 22

Paint in some clouds using a soft brush.

step 20 of 22

Add some light rays
Brush :
http://www.obsidiandawn.com/light-beams-photoshop-gimp-brushes
Thanks Obsidian Dawn

step 21 of 22

Add the Pegasus.

step 22 of 22

Add sahding..on a new layer, select the pegasus and fill the blank layer with black... set layer to 50% opacity and to overlay.
Put this layer in front of the pegasus.
Do the same with a layer filled with white, at 60% opacity and screen, put this layer behind the pegasus to simulate the effect when light hits from the back(like a glow)

Add shadows to body of Pegasus and tadaaaaaa ;)

Final result

Votes

user	voted
mounirupa
hereisanoop
Score: 10

Comments

hereisanoop says:

great

(5 years and 3491 days ago)

Pxleyes

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