A Work in Progress: My only friend



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Original image


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The santa claus toy was extracted from the source

Creation of My only friend: Step 1

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Using the clonse stamp, liquify, warp and paintbrush tools i started painting in the feet of the toy

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Second foot

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Using again the warp, liquify and paintbrush tools i raised the hand up

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The original background lacked the mood that i wanted, so with a few adjustment layers and a bit of pianing, i started to turn it into a more night-like scene

Creation of My only friend: Step 5

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Colour balance and some dodging and burning

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Curves, levels, brightness/contrast

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Layer set to "Multiply"

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Death extracted and placed into the background

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Teddy bear replaced

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Shadow added with a chalk brush so that opacity could be faded with the pen tablet

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Final result

Creation of My only friend: Final Result

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