A Work in Progress: Checkmate...



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black marker


Original image


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Selected pieces of the marker, using the quick selection tool.

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I started to create the chess pieces.
First, the queen....normally!
Combined different pieces of the marker, used warp, resize, rotate, flip to get better shapes.

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Created queen.

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Finished queen with the top.

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King creation, base.

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King creation

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King top.

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Bishop creation.

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Finishing the bishop.

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Rook creation.

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Finishing the rook

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Horse construction.

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Finishing the horse.

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Pawn creation.

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Pawn finishing.

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I got the image of a chess board and copied the top part over the bottom part in order to cover the initial chess pieces and get a better looking backround.

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I resized the chess board and placed it on the bottom.
Also, desaturated it.
Placed one pawn and then copy/paste it multiple times to get more pawns.

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Added the rest of the pieces.

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Cropped the image a touch to get a better focus.
Colored it slightly using hue/saturation and filter/sepia.
Softened edges.

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Final result

Creation of Checkmate...: Final Result

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