A Work in Progress: The Woody Woodpecker Show

This guide was made for entry:
The Woody Woodpecker Show
In Contest:
bird head

Original image

step 1 of 13

at first i used the stamp tool to cover the right bottom corner

then, u chopped the microphone, placed it were i wanted and blurred it a little bit so it will much the blurred top of the beak

Creation of The Woody Woodpecker Show: Step 1

step 2 of 13

i chopped a part of the chest to make the hand

then placed it were i wanted

Creation of The Woody Woodpecker Show: Step 2

step 3 of 13

i used color range to mask the sky from the hand layer

i applied the layer mask and hidden the hand layer

then i made a selection of the chest with color range again

Creation of The Woody Woodpecker Show: Step 3

step 4 of 13

i made the hand layer visible again and made a mask to it

i used the selection to fill the mask with black color

than i broke the chain between the hand layer and the mask and moved the mask so the hand would fit the chest hair

Creation of The Woody Woodpecker Show: Step 4

step 5 of 13

i selected one feather and transformed it to make a finger

Creation of The Woody Woodpecker Show: Step 5

step 6 of 13

duplicated the finger to make a hand, merged the fingers layers into one and transformed wrap it, so it would hold the microphone

Creation of The Woody Woodpecker Show: Step 6

step 7 of 13

i added some shadow layers on the fingers, hand, microphone and chest

then i selected the hair part and copied it to a new layer

Creation of The Woody Woodpecker Show: Step 7

step 8 of 13

i colored range removed the sky, transformed it, placed it on the head and merged it with a layer mask

Creation of The Woody Woodpecker Show: Step 8

step 9 of 13

i duplicated the hair layer a few times and constructed the hair cut style

then liquefied the eye

Creation of The Woody Woodpecker Show: Step 9

step 10 of 13

i chopped the beak and then erased the source beak

then i liquefied the beak to look like i wanted

Creation of The Woody Woodpecker Show: Step 10

step 11 of 13

i placed the beak and used a layer mask to merge it

used some adjustment layers to color the hair, eye, hand and body

Creation of The Woody Woodpecker Show: Step 11

step 12 of 13

did an adjustment solid color layer, layer on soft light mode

then merged all layer to a top one, did filter stylize glowing edges, layer on screen mode, to merge all the image together

added some clouds in the back

Creation of The Woody Woodpecker Show: Step 12

step 13 of 13

blurred the clouds in the back

then added curves adjustment layer, and used gradient on the layer mask in order to make the light direction

finally, made a B&W layer from the green channel, layer on multiply mode

and thats it

Creation of The Woody Woodpecker Show: Step 13

Final result

Votes

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violscraper
mohit007
SekiHara
JamesP
rrxs
Androla
Score: 10

Comments

rrxs says:

Nice Work

(5 years and 3146 days ago)

Pxleyes

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