A Work in Progress: The Well of Transmogrification

This guide was made for entry:
The Well of Transmogrification
In Contest:
kavia bowl

Original image

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Creating the background

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More background work. Changing the rocks.

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Sky, colour adjust and bowl shadows

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Finishing background, adding tree.

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Cropping the tree

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Didn't like the bowl as it was so changed it to a cauldron

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The Cauldron did not work for final image so converted it to a Well

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Adding the crows

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Complete background pre Winged figure addition

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Creating the wings for the winged figure

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Creating the head dress for figure

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Creating the smoke

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Putting it together. See animated GIF next step.

Here are some samples of earlier versions of the image that didn't think worked.

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Animated GIF of putting all the pieces together.

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The following 10 steps my own photos used to create the image.

Background 1

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Sky

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2nd Background (redo)

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Crows

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Crows

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Crows

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Crows

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Crows

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Tree

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Wings

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Clarification from the MODS on Lockstock's stock rules

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Final result

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Score: 10

Comments

loopyluv says:

AMAZING

(5 years and 3042 days ago)

Pxleyes

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