A Work in Progress: Night of the Aurora



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Night of the Aurora
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Original image


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Aurora source photo

Creation of Night of the Aurora: Step 1

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Bear source (my own photo)

Creation of Night of the Aurora: Step 2

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Several mint shapes are lassoed and brought on to new canvas.

Creation of Night of the Aurora: Step 3

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Using a hard brush tool, sketch of the igloo is made.

Creation of Night of the Aurora: Step 4

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One block is chosen to be used as building block for igloo. After duplicating it, each block will be scaled and distorted to fit into sketch. Corners of blocks will be smudged where they join together.

Creation of Night of the Aurora: Step 5

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More layers are completed as igloo grows.

Creation of Night of the Aurora: Step 6

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Tunnel into igloo is made from another of the mint shapes as shown.

Creation of Night of the Aurora: Step 7

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Tunnel is completed here using rotate, scale, and distort tools.

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Trees in background center are cloned out, igloo is flipped horizontally and moved into left front. Bottom of canvas is enlarged and background extended down as well using the clone tool.

Creation of Night of the Aurora: Step 9

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Bear has been chopped and added and scaled to fit scene. Snow has been added on tree behind the igloo, and some darks added around base of igloo using burn and clone tools.

Creation of Night of the Aurora: Step 10

Final result

Creation of Night of the Aurora: Final Result

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