A Work in Progress: GIRilla Gardener



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GIRilla Gardener
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Original image


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Source photo for hat, hair and shirt.

Creation of GIRilla Gardener: Step 1

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Making tulips from gorilla mouth using liquify warp tool after lassoing mouth area and moving to a new canvas.

Creation of GIRilla Gardener: Step 2

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Tulip design is cut in half, duplicated and flipped to be rejoined. After merging the two layers, color changes will be made with hue/sat tools.

Creation of GIRilla Gardener: Step 3

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Creating more flowers using fingers and liquify warp and liquify bloat tools.

Creation of GIRilla Gardener: Step 4

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More work on flowers, adding color w color balance, and w hue/saturation tools. Burn and dodge tools will add shadows and highlights where needed.

Creation of GIRilla Gardener: Step 5

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Using liquify warp tool, the gorilla face is changed to a big smile. Eyelashed will be added using a hard smudge tool at 100%

Creation of GIRilla Gardener: Step 6

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Face is removed from source photo, then hat is scaled to fit gorilla head, using smudge and clone tools to finish off edges around the face. Edges of straw hat are carefully trimmed with eraser tool. Eyes of gorilla will be darkened with paint brush tool, then white highlight added with brush tool.

Creation of GIRilla Gardener: Step 7

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Red and white shirt is lassoed out of source and moved over gorilla body. It will be made to fit body using scale tool, then clone tool to carry design into sleeves and below the 'arms'.

Creation of GIRilla Gardener: Step 8

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Skirt is brushed in with blue brush tool, smudged to shape, then textures added
with filter/texture/grain and noise tools. Shadows are added using burn tool.

Creation of GIRilla Gardener: Step 9

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Finally, flowers are duplicated and added to gorilla's 'hands' and to her garden as well. Burn and dodge tools add shadows and highlights.

Creation of GIRilla Gardener: Step 10

Final result

Creation of GIRilla Gardener: Final Result

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