A Work in Progress: Elephants made out of glass

This guide was made for entry:
Elephants made out of glass
In Contest:
plain glass

Original image

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Draw a elephant

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Use warp to shape it. but warp is not efficient enough

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Use Liquify to shape it more .

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The ear made in Liguify.

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Placing the ear.

Remove with a soft eraser the parts you don't want

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Follow all the lines of your drawing.

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I copied the whole elephant to make the baby and scaled it.
Then I put a vector around them. (Dip Pen tool)

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You end up with this shape. easy to make it into selection later.

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Make a gradient like this and turn the vector we made into a selection.

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saturate the inside of the glass.

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Put all the layers of the elephants together and make a copy for the reflections.

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In liquify we can give the illusion to bent colors from the background (like glass en water bending the light beams).

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Final result

Votes

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George55
Score: 10

Comments

lchappell says:

good work

(5 years and 1276 days ago)

author says:

Thanks

(5 years and 1276 days ago)

George55 says:

Love it, this is the way SBS on an entry should be... lots of info...Thanks.

(5 years and 1273 days ago)

author says:

Thank George.. I'll try to do it more often then

(5 years and 1270 days ago)

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