A Work in Progress: Tazer



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Tazer
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To create Fairy home:
Warped Dragon drain and blended into tree using layer mask

NOTE: Step 20 is an animated GIF to show the creation of the Fairies hair.

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Bring tree into hilltop image.

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Match colours using Levels Adjustment layer

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Added black layer for opening (Dragon's Mouth)

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Added tree roots to anchor tree to hilltop

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Wanted hill to be flatter (a surface for the fairy to kneel on)

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Just for Amanda I used the lightning clouds!

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Changed cloud colour

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Bring in 2nd cloud

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Added lightning only from 3rd lightning cloud photo

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Masked and dragged girl for fairy into main image

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Adjusted alignment so she would sit better in image. Head was warped during this so I replaced it with original and adjusted slightly

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Changed dress colour

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Next step in changing dress colour

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Changing Dress colour:
See directions in image

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Changing Dress colour:
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Changing Dress colour final step: See directions in image

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Butterfly wings prep

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Getting colour and look on wings

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Hair animated GIF. See next step for brush used to create hair. Basically I start large for the base layer and build up from there using finer and finer brushes and a variety of colour (darker usually on the bottom)

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Brush setting used for hair. See previous step for explanation

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Adjusted shading on Fairies hand. See image for instructions.

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Create electric-like look for wings and glow. See image for instructions.

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Adjusted lighting using Levels adjustment layers set on Screen and Multiply (no real adjustment but using these keeps the file size smaller than adding an image layer)

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Tree lighting/shadow. Did same to hilltop (not shown but the same method was used)

In addition to the above step I also changed the Fairies face quite a bit (Eye, shape and lips) and made her hand smaller (these Steps are not shown as they were minor. Basically for the face I just redrew it on a new layer using a low opacity brush and the smudge tool.
For enlarging the hand: I copied the hand and pasted over the original, reduced the size, cloned out the edge of the original hand (again on a new layer over the original) then blended the 3 layer with masks.

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Final result

Creation of Tazer: Final Result

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Comments

avatar madamemonty

fantastic SBS, thankyou

(5 years and 3249 days ago)
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best sbs

(5 years and 3248 days ago)
avatar RichieMB
RichieMB says:

Brilliant work. Sky is fantastic, model alteration excellent, hair and face superb.

(5 years and 3244 days ago)
avatar Geexman
Geexman says:

Fantastic sbs, theres very few that go so indepth.....Well Done!

(5 years and 3207 days ago)