A Work in Progress: mechanism of the mind



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ok...this sbs is a little long....here goes:

black background layer

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masked out fuse box from source and desaturated

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duplicated masked out fuse box several times, adjusted and merged....

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first layer of masked out face from one of my old bryce works...i dodged and burned along the way, so these layers look a little messy

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the original bryce image i was working with....will upload into my bryce stock if it isn't already there

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i layered my merged fuse boxes on top of the face, and erased at different levels of opacity for blending

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another face layer with an inner shadow, blended on vivid light

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used a portion of wire from the fuse box, duplicated it several times and arranged it over the side of the face, gave a shadow and bevel/emboss

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copied it and layered over other side of face...masked to fit

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i think the first layers of the face ties were chnged to a bluish green hue, and i layered the black filled layers on top on soft light to darken...

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other set of face ties on soft light...

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another layer of the face on vivid light and lowered opacity, with a section cut out to reveal fuse boxes beneath....

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black fill layer with a lens flare (i burned out the streaks of light), blended on lighten for a glow effect in the eyes...

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same thing for other eye...

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i duplicated the face layer and masked some of it out, added bevel and emboss and shadow...

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placed texture image GrungemapsWeird0007 (Texture: #22351) from cgtextures.com, masked it to show behind the eyes, and blended on linear dodge at a lowered opacity

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copied blue satuated layer of face ties and masked to fit the eyes....

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same thing with other eye

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copied face tie layer again, and cut out this shape from it, which i layered on 0 fill opacity, added bevel/eboss

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used brushes from "Nuts Bolts and Screw Brushes" by ~robotc at deviantart.com to create the screws....added shadow

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sources used for this step:

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then, to create the hair and wires, i cut out the longest wire from my masked out fuse box, duplicated and arranged to create the wires, then dulicated and warped to create the hair.

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i forgot to add these layers to my sbs....to get the color contrast, i blended this layer over the rest....

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then this one.....
and that is definitely the end.

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Final result

Creation of mechanism of the mind: Final Result

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