A Work in Progress: Space Dog

This guide was made for entry:
Space Dog
In Contest:
mixed media 46

step 1 of 15

Start with a black background
Add galaxy>Exclusion>85%
Add clouds, replace color blue with black then change layer>Screen>57%

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step 2 of 15

Make a layer of colored blobs. I made two of these layers, slightly different from each other.

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step 3 of 15

1st color blob layer was Linear Burn>100% and 2nd color blob layer was Overlay>27%. This is what it looks like over the galaxy.

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step 4 of 15

Make a circle selection of the mossy rock and use Distort>Spherize to make it look more like a planet. I also used Distort>Liquify>Pucker & Bloat to make the roundness look more realistic. Inner and outer glow with light blue.

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step 5 of 15

Altered rock colors to look more planet-like, with different layers of painted color each layer on a different setting like overlay or color burn.

Painted in shadows and hight lights, blurred and lowered opacity.

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step 6 of 15

Repeated planet creation process for small moon and bigger moon/planet.

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step 7 of 15

Removed rocket from it's background, removed the windshield and added in the light bulb.

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step 8 of 15

Added the rocket to image, put in the seat from the sidecar and used clone stamp and layers of paint to make the seat look like it belonged on the rocket.

There is a windshield here that I later removed because it was in the way.

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step 9 of 15

Here you can see the flames I painted. I added a motion blur.

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step 10 of 15

I selected the wind blown dog out of his background as best as I could but lost a lot of details of his flying fur.

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step 11 of 15

Here I try and draw in a lot of flying fur and fill in the gaps that I couldn't save from the original. I also made his body a little bigger.

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step 12 of 15

Added the dog and made him fit in. You can see the windshield that I later got rid of.

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step 13 of 15

Here it is without windshield and with flames.

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step 14 of 15

Added goggles to the dog and distorted them to match the direction he was looking in. Transform>Distort. Painted a light blue into the lens of the goggles and changed the layer setting to Color so it looks like nice blue glass.

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step 15 of 15

The last thing I did was resize the dog and his rocket to be bigger and more prominent in the image.

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Final result

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derdevil
finnphotography
Score: 10

Comments

still26 says:

FANTABULOUS, really great teaching and hopefully learning. (ahem)

(5 years and 923 days ago)

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