A Work in Progress: Electric man



This guide was made for entry:
Electric man
In Contest:
metal globe


Original image


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The most part I used is the the basal part of the metal globe. First I draw the sketch for the character (no reference), then I use the puppet warp to bend the metal string along with the sketch to make the character. The other parts of the metal globe were used to make the ears, shoulder, foot as I indicated in the figure

Creation of Electric man: Step 1

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I made the bottom part by the same method

Creation of Electric man: Step 2

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For the wires on the back side, I just use pen tool to draw

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The character is almost finished

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Now I manipulate the background. The bridge position is not satisfied with me so I raised it a bit upward

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Now I blend the sky with the water

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Put the character onto the background

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Draw the electrical, elongated fingers

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I drew the eyes with pen and brush tools, too. Notice that the strings on the left hand I'll remove near the last step

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This is how the floating building I put on the image from the last step was made. The shape of the metal globe can be easily recognized, so I won't explain more in detail. In the last step, I used brush and pen tool to draw the robot, entrance and light

Creation of Electric man: Step 10

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This figure shows what sources that the enemy robot was constructed from.

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Some intermediate steps for how the enemy robot was made

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After removing the strings on the left hand, I made the metal hand for my character from the given source. About how I made the fire sparks you can see in the next step

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To draw the spark, I made a layer with blending mode like what I described in the figure, and used the brush to paint the sparks.
In final step, I fined tune the image by increase the contrast of each parts of the character, correct the light, shadow... (took about a day to finish)

Creation of Electric man: Step 16

Final result

Creation of Electric man: Final Result

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