A Work in Progress: Chill Garden



This guide was made for entry:
Chill Garden
In Contest:
chill statue


Original image


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These selections were lassoed from source photo to create flowers.

Creation of Chill Garden: Step 1

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Selections from source are joined together with liquify warp and skeleton warp, then filters of difference cloud and craquelure added.

Creation of Chill Garden: Step 2

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The same light green selection is brought in again, this time to be liquify warped to make leaf forms.

Creation of Chill Garden: Step 3

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The dark green selection is now liquify warped to form another leaf form for top layer. It will later be duplicated and placed on the left side and opacity lowered somewhat.

Creation of Chill Garden: Step 4

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Petal for red flower is formed with selection of top of pants in source photo. Shaping is done with liquify, then with smudge and eraser tools.

Creation of Chill Garden: Step 5

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Petals are duplicated then rotated and placed carefully to form a flower head, then petals all merged to be placed at top of a stem already formed.

Creation of Chill Garden: Step 6

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Here flower head has been duplicated two times to place on stems which have also been dupllicated from light green plant.

Creation of Chill Garden: Step 7

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Using source head, butterfly body is started. Liquify, smudge, and eraser tools are used to shape it.

Creation of Chill Garden: Step 8

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From another head selection from source, wings are formed with same tools, then wings are merged with body.

Creation of Chill Garden: Step 9

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From green area of source photo, a leaf is shaped with eraser tool. Shape is duplicated three times, one is flipped and duplicated 2 more times. These are merged together after rotating to proper positions, and placed where flower joins the stem. Butterfiles are added. They will be moved around to determine where they will balance out the piece.

Creation of Chill Garden: Step 10

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Here are the steps to forming the white flower to be placed at the bottom right of the piece.

Creation of Chill Garden: Step 11

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Finally, after white flower is placed, filters in red, yellow and green are placed over the entire merged piece.

Creation of Chill Garden: Step 12

Final result

Creation of Chill Garden: Final Result

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