Nothing But The King - created by JamesD


Nothing But The King
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Unfortunately Something went wrong with Photoshop and lost all saves leading to the final comp however the run down for the entry was as follows:-

Step 1: Using the Pen tool I extracted the Figure, clone stamped out the remaining chain and made a general clean-up with the Spot Healing Brush.

Step 2: Duplicated and Enlarged the Head, added neck shadow with a Soft Brush

Step 3: Used a Curves adjustment layer to boost the colour in the Guitar - and give contrast to the Hair - inside mouth - Trousers and Shoes (for the trousers and shoes I lowered the opacity of the brush when painting on the mask)

Step 4: Made a 'lightbulb' using layer styles and using an appropriate font, duplicated and traced around each letter... when I finished I grouped the name, duplicated once again flipped for the reflection - using a layer mask to mask out the bit I didn't want

Step 5: Created the spotlight with the elipse tool, added the shadow and transformed it to the way you see (warp tool mainly)

Step 6: Looked a little flat so added some splashed of colour using the brush tool, gaussian blur, the rendered some Clouds, using a high feather with the lasso tool I picked a selection of the cloud, and enlarge it so it covered the 'ground' - using blend if to knock out the blacks and set to screen - there's actually two layers set to different opacities.

Step7: Only external source used was the Microphone from cgtextures.com

Step8: Set a layer to overlay and painting black and white used it do dodge and burn some details in the face and hair

Step 9: Sharpening of Elvis - highpass set on vivid light.

Step 10: using stock brush... added the sparkles in the lights. (5 years and 1948 days ago)

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Flame On! - created by JamesD


Flame On!
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Thought I'd do something different than the usual Phoenix so found a Parrot instead. Hope you like it!

Better in High-Res



(5 years and 2089 days ago)

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Opposites Attract - created by JamesD


Opposites Attract
Favs: 3SBS: 10Hi-resRank: 1/3Score: 70% (40)29327 views

OK Hopefully I'm not off theme - as this was the only image I could find that was close to what i wanted it's not full body but it's a little more than heads and shoulders... (not if you look at the woman though :P )


Anyway - I think high res would be better to view this at..... so check it out!?....

OK so, onto the theme of this concept..... quite simple really, high tech and old tech mixing it up?!.... :) (5 years and 2242 days ago)

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Blind Reaper - created by JamesD


Blind Reaper
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As it's Halloween coming up I thought I'd do something seasonal...

No reference used.

rendered with colouring pencils and soft pastels (5 years and 3088 days ago)


DRAGON CANDY - created by JamesD


DRAGON CANDY
Favs: 5SBS: 26Hi-resRank: 1/24Score: 65.4% (36)16720 views

ALL SOURCE AND PHOTOSHOP

Better Viewed in High Res (5 years and 3350 days ago)


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