A Work in Progress: Gathering Flowers



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Gathering Flowers
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Tree background source (my own photo)

Creation of Gathering Flowers : Step 1

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Petals are created from small section of rock using the eraser and smudge tools.

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Petals are rotated to be merged into a flower

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Here the hanging flower is also formed using same section of rock and the smudge and scale tools.

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This background is started using the knot in the rope, duplicating and flipping it vertically, then color changing it. Next some noise and gaussian blur is added. This background will have gradients, and the tree layed over it later, but will still provide add'l textures.

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Knot area of source is lassoed and trimmed to be turned into girl's hair.

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Hair is liquify/warped and a face drawn in with brush tool.

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Rope 'braided tail' part of hair is duplicated to be rotated and stretched with liquify warp.

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Gaussian blur at 16 percent is added to soften more like hair

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Tail has been lengthened with liquify warp, then is attached and merged to head hair. Hair is now moved onto background canvas.

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Facial features are being brushed in with flesh tones.

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Some shapes for vines have been brushed in (will be removed), and vines are formed from longest section of rope to form the shapes that have been drawn in.

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Rope vine now replaces the vine sketch and has been duplicated , and right side has ben filled with duplications of left side and flipped horizontally.

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Flowers are being added to vines, some scaled larger or smaller, some flipped to new angle.

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Using the brush tool, the girl's dress and basket are roughly sketched in.

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Arms and hands are worked on here. (Also, the vines have been changed to greenish hue with hue/saturation tool.

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More flowers have been added around arbor, to basket, and also around bottom of dress. Those at bottom I will lower in opacity for a sort of 'floaty' feel. A pastel gradient has been added to background. (I will be changing that toward end to better frame the canvas.

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Flowers have all been merged to the vines, and rest of scene merged except for background. Yellow and reddish filters are added at low opacity.

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A tree has been added behind with a gradient layer of yellow and red/purple over it at 67% opacity. This background is added to give some interest behind girl and hopefully won't detract from her too much.

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Final result

Creation of Gathering Flowers : Final Result

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