step 1 of 9
Designed one scale, applied inner glow.
Copied and pasted into one line, then merged.
Copy and pasted the line as many time as necessary, then applied chrome filter.
Only difference in finished work is that I applied the sea reflection to each scale.
Copied and pasted into one line, then merged.
Copy and pasted the line as many time as necessary, then applied chrome filter.
Only difference in finished work is that I applied the sea reflection to each scale.
step 2 of 9
step 3 of 9
Masked it then warp with mask unlinked.
step 4 of 9
created a scale map
step 5 of 9
step 6 of 9
Designed a fin, added shadows using the pen tool
step 7 of 9
chromed the fin
step 8 of 9
almost done, still missing the upper, lower and back fins
step 9 of 9
work on the back fin
Final result
