Starting to play with the pic of this wonderful old vacuum cleaner.
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This selection will make all the waist & tentacle arms, as well as the neck.
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"Teeth" made from part of the background.
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Starting to build the body.
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Selection for joints.
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Torso flipped & warped from shoulder selection.
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Waist built from previous selection.
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Pelvis made the same way as previous steps.
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Arms made from same selection as waist. Duplicated, elongated, warped.
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Shadows & highlights added to foreground robot, background robot blurred. Film grain added to entire image to simulate old halftone printing & aging.
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Original inspiration.
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Original background pic, which was flipped to match light source on original vacuum image & cropped. Bottom trees & grass were smart blurred to give them more of a painted illustration feel.