Mystical Contest Pictures made with Photoshop - Image Page 1

Rank: 3/18

Score: 68.1% (29)

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This piece of art is my dedication to the nature itself because I love forest and mystical creatures.

Techniques Iâ€™ve been used is a matte painting inside Adobe Photoshop. Lots of chops from the source image as well as textures to cover the Ancient Protectorâ€™s body. External images are my own (snapshots of my buddy) to pose the human characters. Brushing and airbrushing are required to grow vines and summon the Ancient Protector with the rules of third and golden mean composition (I almost forgot to apply those rules since Iâ€™m working as a character and creature artist rather than environment or cinematic), after that; I made touch ups in Adobe After Effects as a post-production stage and finally end up in Adobe Lightroom to enhance details and sharpens the final artwork.

Hope you like my creation; I had a lot of fun to complete this artworks. Thanks for viewing and have a great time!

Oh yeah... Will that wandering boy find this formidable creature as a friend or foe?
(5 years and 2798 days ago)

7 Comments

Ancient, Awakens, mystical, forest, monster

hereisanoop says:

Fantastic stuff author.... and extra points for the excellent sbs..... good luck

author says:

Thanks for your consideration to look after my SBS, friend. And your kindness to fave it.

Have a great time!

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Keiley22 says:

this is definately one of my faves for this contest, original author, well done

Kid says:

Would be better if you made monster a little brighter so it pops out a little more. Looks like a scene from a movie too

author says:

Thanks for the comments, Keiley22 and Kid. Appreciated so much!

Kid, if I made the monster a little brighter, yes it can pops up but in my humbly opinion; I tried so hard to make it merged into the environment so it doesn't look so fake. Because it's a painting inside a photo real. = )

But once again, thanks for your considerations to look after my creation and I suggest to check the WIP section too. I tried to explain everything there. Have a great time all.

spaceranger says:

Congrats!!

hereisanoop says:

this is still a rare piece... congrats

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Down The Well - created by TwilightMuse

Favs: 0

SBS: 24

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Rank: 9/18

Score: 62.4% (0)

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I used two outside sources from artists off of deviant art. With the exception of the source images all other pictures were my stock. (5 years and 2801 days ago)

2 Sources:

1 Comment

Down, The, Well, wishing, rescue

pixelkid says:

I really like the composition, author...just wish the woman fit into environment better. Perhaps the lighting on her doesn't match the lighting in the forest. If you adjust this, it might place her there better.

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Mystical Palace - created by indianwarrior

Favs: 0

SBS: 8

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Rank: 14/18

Score: 50.2% (0)

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1 source image used................night effect achieved with the help of levels and curves............clouds made with "render clouds" filter..............a lens flare applied behind the moon which is a simple cirlce........glow effect of the palace achieved by duplicating the layer twice, applying a gaussian blur of 4-5 to the underneath layer and then setting the blend mode of the above layer to color dodge..........reflection achieved with the gold old ripples filter.....hope u guys like it....:) (5 years and 3720 days ago)

1 Source:

1: palace

8 Comments

Mystical, Palace, night, fantasy

ponti55 says:

Interesting image, the building is a little too bright, but good luck!

speel1993 says:

looking good, building is definitely too bright though.

author says:

thnx ponti and speel.....i purposely kept it bright as it was looking dull.........bt i'll keep it in mind the next time........

visba says:

The moon is behind the palace but it illuminates the front of the palace?

author says:

as i said that has been purposely done to prevent the palace from fading......a dull palace wuldn't have looked good.....thnx nyways for pointing it out

Leanord says:

Looks like you didn't edit the point where the two mountains intersect, well at least it looks like its still a blue sky.

author says:

thts not the sky..................those are the farthermost mountains.........watch it in HR

k5683 says:

this would be so awesome if there wasn't so much light on the buildings. your step 6 looked better IMO

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Mystical Bird - created by WYSIWYG

Favs: 4

SBS: 10

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Rank: 10/18

Score: 58.1% (0)

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(5 years and 3762 days ago)

2 Sources:

1: paper
2: source2

14 Comments

Mystical, Bird

CMYK46 says:

Really nice feel to this. IMHO would be better if the bird was all one color, but still a good image.

ponti55 says:

I agree with CMYK, either change the colour of the flamingo head or the body, or even add some gradual feather brushes that slowly change colour into each other. That's just my opinion, it;s a very nice imaginative and atmospheric image either way, so good luck!

GolemAura says:

Love the paper texture..good luck on this author.. very different

gornats says:

his head is sooo big , he must be smart lol good one

Andershegelund says:

I like this picture. Looks like a painting in some kind of way. Too bad the bird has two colors but that's just me. Gud Lawk

TemporaNigra says:

Mistical or....mutilated? XD

author says:

hold your votes, I'll do some colouring this evening. Thank for the comments so far!

Tuckinator says:

cool this image has a nice feel to it

author says:

added some colour on the wings, hope you like it!

elficho says:

looks good, the wings are great! maaaaybe extend the orange part all the way to his body so his neck is not half orange half white but it it's not a big deal thought it might look better