A Work in Progress: Narwhal Feeds

This guide was made for entry:
Narwhal Feeds
In Contest:
aircraft engine

Original image

step 1 of 10

Outline with paths

step 2 of 10

pick up fins, scale, step and repeat

step 3 of 10

outline front ring of engine, scale step and repeat

step 4 of 10

added bkgd color. outlined back of engine to create body by, once again, scale step and repeat with a slight rotate clockwise as the body got smaller to show a "turn". Than I darkened each one as they got farther back.

Added "membrane" under rings by filling selected area and masking away area over rings.

step 5 of 10

just did color tweaks and took the engine from step, scaled it down to make eyelights

step 6 of 10

made paths for the light beams, filled with color and used an overlay mode for the area above the rings, then duplicated the beams and used a normal mode over the black. also darkened the areas between the beams

step 7 of 10

added a couple more beams in the same manner and brought the color to be uniform across the norwahl. also brushed in intense light in eyes

step 8 of 10

softened all the beams, added natural lighting/shads to the norwhal and added the purple vignette to bkgd

step 9 of 10

created the semi circle(blue) using a scatter brush I created then twirled it. the shape below the norwhal(purple) was a nondescript pink fill that was motion blurred and twirled

step 10 of 10

The shrimp were created by using a scatter brush I created so it would be very random in size and angle. those shrimp were bevel and embossed for depth.

Final result

Votes

user	voted
CMYK46
Score: 6

Comments

CMYK46 says:

Don't just show pictures, explain how you did things...otherwise a SBS is mostly useless!

(5 years and 3517 days ago)

author says:

SBS updated. Best I can do for now.

(5 years and 3516 days ago)

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