Original image
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Preliminary sketch in PS
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Preliminary face sketch in PS
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Cutting out pieces of sketch and fitting them to my sketch. Used: Rotate, transform etc
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Used hue/saturation image adjust to get the color scheme I wanted.
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I painted in the base for the skin tones using a default spatter PS brush. Then I took my sketch layer and inverted the color under image/adjust to make it show up on my tone.
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used a gradient for the background (my opacity layer for the source layer was turned down here, just so I could see the background better)
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Painting in tones for face,
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Used circle selections to make pupils/irises, and then painted inside them. A little more tone painting.
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Painting and blending (smudge) for face
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painting in nose contours.
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Turned off mermaid layer group to focus on source. Turned source group back to 100% and added more source to create the right most peak on a layer behind. I used tranform tools to get The right shape as in the first source steps.
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I used a selection of the source and placed it on top of the gradient layer. I transformed it to make the flow/shape of the water.
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I blurred the source to death, tweaked it a bunch w/ liquify and smudge and changed the layer setting and opacity. Then I painted more on top of that.
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frankly, I am not sure what I did in this step, but I'm sure it was something. I'm uploading it only to keep my order, and not screw up which step I am on. SORRY!
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Hair sketch, using default spatter brush, I use this brush a lot.
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More face painting.
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more painting for the face, painting in rough tones for the hair as well.
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More face/hair. In the last few steps I was always switching back and forth to the source layers, to tweak them (make the holes etc)
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I started to paint in shadows, and highlights, (also in the iris)
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More painting of tones, rough in of "makeup"
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More painting, I also painted in some light rays, which I was going to tweak later, but I ended up taking out all together.
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I redid the bottom lip here. Also in many of the steps, I am going to source image, and burning/shading etc.
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Lip detailing
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Some really rough painting in of tones and colors (that will be toned down later)
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highlighting, which will be tones down as well
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adding in secondary color tones. Brought in source selection to make coral.
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More color tones and liquify on source to make coral. I a color layer over that for more colors after changing color of main source.
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doing the same thing for the smaller other colored corals (only small)
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I added more source in here around the right upper side of the opening, I was adding bits all along to fit how I wanted it to look. Here is a close up of painting on the inside of opening curve, to create a stone looking inner. some of this was done w/ brush, and some w/ smudge, going back and forth.
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painted with brush es to make beginning of bubbles, and water woosh.
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painted in some water plants and more details.
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painting to refine her face.
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roughly painting in more hair.
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eyelashes and other random painting/smudging etc
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more of the same. (detailing)
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adding color to the new hair part.
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more hair stuff, you may not be able to see it at the size of the sbs. My image is even bigger than the hi-res, but I shrank the final down, so it would be sure to fit on the screen.
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more painting, I painted a lot of bubbles and the duplicated some and copied and pasted to make a bit more.
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I took everything and condensed to one layer and then did final blending. and then painting on a layer on top of that to finish of hair. highlights etc.
Final result
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| kevinice95 |  |
| DML | |
| sebykxxx | |
| DigitalDreamer | |
| cabldawg71 | |
| BDesigns | |
| jawshoewhah |  |
| Maya3D | |
| Akassa | |
| loopyluv | |
| demi | |
| tapiona | |
| erikuri | |
| RAZ0R | |
| Score: 9.71 | |
the only thing missing is how you made that large piece of orangey coral...this is fabulous - the chop and the sbs!
(2 years and 104 days ago)Pearlie: sorry! The coral... I took the orange jewelry and then liquefied it beyond recognition
. I then just kept messing with it, w/ smudge and I also put a color layer over it to get the different colors. It's SORT of shows it in steps 26-28, if that helps at all.
(2 years and 104 days ago)