A Work in Progress: Ugly Can Be Beautiful, Too

This guide was made for entry:
Ugly Can Be Beautiful, Too
In Contest:
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Original image

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Two small sections of the birds head are removed and formed into leaves and flowers as shown here. Liquify warp, smudge tool and clone tools are used.

Creation of Ugly Can Be Beautiful, Too: Step 1

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Photo (my own) used for background

Creation of Ugly Can Be Beautiful, Too: Step 2

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Bird head and leaf shapes are added over the background photo.

Creation of Ugly Can Be Beautiful, Too: Step 3

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From one of the leaf shapes, the bird's body is formed and will be blended using smudge and clone tools. Other leaf shapes are duplicated, some sized larger or smaller, some flipped and rotated to produce the look of a lot of foliage under the bird.

Creation of Ugly Can Be Beautiful, Too: Step 4

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Flower shapes are added now, tucking them in between layers of leaves. They will be color changed, sized and rotated in an interesting pattern and allowing the bird to be the center of interest.

Creation of Ugly Can Be Beautiful, Too: Step 5

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Some burning and dodging add more depth to background and more shapes to flowers and leaves. Centers are added to flowers using the brush tool and burn tool. More darks and highlights are added to bird.

Creation of Ugly Can Be Beautiful, Too: Step 6

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Final result

Comments

wazowski says:

Well explained.

(5 years and 2403 days ago)

Pxleyes

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