Started painting the background using a soft brush.
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Painted some noise. I painted lots of dots, then I copied and pasted them all over the place.
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Distort noise to add some texture to the field. I later made it partially transparent and erased the edges.
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Soften edges of noise and painted some details. Also I decided not to paint the letters in the back. Painted the ball using selection tool + soft paint brush.
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Created another layer under the painted ball and started painting the player.
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Started painting the player.
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The rest includes painting and erasing.
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Copied and pasted previously created noise
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Transformed, copied, pasted
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Ended up covering the entire image with noise. Made it partially transparent and changed the layer blending mode.
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Color Balance
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Forgot to show this important step. I created a grid(4x5) in the very beginning. Later I added lots of guides to help me out with proportions.
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Painted psd file. You can see my layers.
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Without background. And the player with the ball is a dropped copy form of two separate layers.
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Scoot over ball layer. O_O
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The previous step show before the ball and player were dropped together. This step shows the other layer where they are together. You can see the brush strokes.
There was no tracing involved. I used a 4x5 grid to make the proportions even
(5 years and 3438 days ago)Later I added more squares for adding more details. As you see in the last step.
(5 years and 3438 days ago)Update: added more steps
(5 years and 3437 days ago)