A Work in Progress: The Room Below

This guide was made for entry:
The Room Below
In Contest:
fridge magnet

Original image

step 1 of 37

Laying out the back corner of the room.

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Bringing some cob webs up onto the wall of the duplicated bricks.

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Copied and pasted more bricks to add inconsistencies to the opposite wall. Used the perspective tool.

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Added some shadows to the corner along with more brick.

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Pasted in the steps.

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Positioned the steps. Used free transform to get the desired height and width.

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Started the masking and blending process.

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Worked with the transparencies and shadowing to bring the stairs into the rocks.

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Stairs after blending and shadowing for a natural look.

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Placed the refrigerator magnet.

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Masking around the head.

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Head cut out. Transformed to get the approximate size.

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Copy and pasted the right side of the sarcophagus.

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Completed masking of the body.

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Linked the body and head together after sizing. Desaturated and flipped.

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Fit the sarcophagus on the rocks and cut out the foreground.

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More blending and transparencies with the rocks and sarcophagus.

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Started adding shadows along the base of the sarcophagus.

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Added some gold color overlay to parts of the sarcophagus. Changed main background to include a blueish hue.

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Added more gold color overlay to the face and head piece of the sarcophagus. Added a subtle pillow emboss to the overlay to give the appearance of thick dust falling or being wiped off.

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Added a gold bowl to the lower left corner amidst the rocks.

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Added shadows to the bowl and took away some of the shininess to make it less visible.

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Masked the spider.

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Added the spider silhouette to a light spot and darkened it to make it barely visible.

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Created the light rays using three lines, radial blur, and motion blur.

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Result after the motion blur.

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Added sand to the top of the steps.

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Used transparency and shading to give the appearance of light dust.

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After masking the kris, I positioned it behind some rocks and used blending and shadowing.

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Added the strings of webbing back over the kris.

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Copied and pasted the cat.

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Put the cat on it's side and used some shadowing.

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Started adding rocks to the steps. Blended and added shadows.

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Used the lasso tool and selected a part of the pot.

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The result of the broken pot and handle. Added shadows and desaturated the surface a little to make it look older.

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Cut another section from the lower half of the pot.

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Added the bottom part of the pot to the rocks. Added shadows.

Final result

Votes

user	voted
velkanx
Clinge
arca
arca
Chalty669
Disco
Score: 10

Comments

arca says:

Great SBS ...stunning work. Detail is incredible.

(5 years and 3317 days ago)

Pxleyes

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