A Work in Progress: Parrot Girl

This guide was made for entry:
Parrot Girl
In Contest:
asian girl

Original image

step 1 of 7

Warp and clone stamp to get rid of features.
I know the clone stamp looks really bad, but I cover it all later anyway.

step 2 of 7

Select parrot feathers and put them onto face, warp around and used eraser with a speckled brush around edges.

step 3 of 7

Keep layering all the way around

step 4 of 7

Clone stamp smaller feathers for face.

step 5 of 7

Add beak, transform/perspective.

step 6 of 7

Smaller details. Shadow under chin, darken around eyes, skin around beak.
Background is two layers of render/clouds set to vivid light.

step 7 of 7

I found a nice bald parrot photo and I took his body and pasted it over the girl.

I shaped the birds body to match the lines of her neck and shaded it under the girls chin and down the side.

I used a brush for the eyelashes because I fail at drawing eyelashes. Don't hold that against me, my hand just shakes too much for eyelashes.

I adjusted hue/sat bright&contrast on the background, duplicate>overlay>lower opacity to about 35%

Final result

Votes

user	voted
greymval
Disco
Score: 8

Comments

greymval says:

Nice guide, i didn't get why you had to clone her over, only to keep her eyes , but I know the process of creation is not linear

(5 years and 3373 days ago)

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