A Work in Progress: Bird in a Gilded Cage



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Bird in a Gilded Cage
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Original image


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Source photo (my own) for the arbor.

Creation of Bird in a Gilded Cage: Step 1

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Source dove photo (my own)

Creation of Bird in a Gilded Cage: Step 2

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Basic structure of bird cage made with brush tool. Turned to gold by lowering intensity with brightness/contrast tool, then bringing up yellows with color tool, then texturized with craquelture.

Creation of Bird in a Gilded Cage: Step 3

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Here arbor has been cropped to just show corner. Roses were all made from original rose source by adding/removing petals, duplicating almost 70 times, scaling and rotating to place them where they were needed.

Creation of Bird in a Gilded Cage: Step 4

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Here more roses have been added and some background filled in at top w darker color.

Creation of Bird in a Gilded Cage: Step 5

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Shadows are added on both roses and leaf areas.

Creation of Bird in a Gilded Cage: Step 6

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Bird is added to gold cage and placed in the arbor, sizing it to fit.

Creation of Bird in a Gilded Cage: Step 7

Final result

Creation of Bird in a Gilded Cage: Final Result

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