A Work in Progress: Romantic Pisces

This guide was made for entry:
Romantic Pisces
In Contest:
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step 1 of 11

drew out the design

step 2 of 11

laid out skin color and began highlighting and shading

step 3 of 11

scale was made with small oval colored with two primary colors shading and highlighting

step 4 of 11

scales then applied in a shingle pattern over entire males tail then all scale layers merged, cleaned up, shaded and highlighted.

step 5 of 11

tail fin is done with colors pulled out with smudge tool, then a bar drawn on top and higlighting and shading added.

step 6 of 11

female tail is done the same with this as the scale

step 7 of 11

bra top s colored in, shaded and high lighted

step 8 of 11

Hair was done by using smudge tool dragging it through the chosen colors and then highlighting and shading

step 9 of 11

background color was added behind ind dodge tool used to create light coming from above.

step 10 of 11

I created the bubble with a soft round brush then erasing the center and highlighting with soft round brush. On another layer I added the colors and then turned down the visibility, merged, turned down visibility again and blurred. Then I placed the bubbles in different sizes on two different layers to put then behind and in front of the picture.

step 11 of 11

I drew a rock and colored it for shading and highlighting. I then added my merpeople and shaded the rock.

Final result

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Dubhy63
Score: 10

Comments

Dubhy63 says:

Great guide

(5 years and 3017 days ago)

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