A Work in Progress: Butterfly Repair

This guide was made for entry:
Butterfly Repair
In Contest:
robo transform

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These are the metal textures I used and what I used them for.

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I began by cutting out the shape of the wings using the pen tool. On separate layers, I used a low opacity paint to color the wings.

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I used a section of the corragated metal texture to make the pipes. Distort to make it skinny, then warp to shape. The very curvy part I made by picking up the colors from the pipe and using the pen tool and stroke. Dodge and burn to give the pipe a rounded shape.

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Using the pen tool, I cut out the shapes. Dodge and burn to shade.

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I used gaussian blur on the bumpy copper texture to smooth it out, then cut out the shapes using the pen tool. Dodge and burn to give them shape.

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I desaturated and brightened the smoothed copper to make "steel" for the hydralics.

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Same thing as before...pen tool, warp, dodge and burn, low opacity paint.

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The hinge was made with a section of the corragated metal texture.

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I desaturated and brightened the pipe. Warp on the wings.

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This shows how I made the supports for the wings. The extra bits were erased later. A circle from the "steel" and some dodge and burn to make the bolts. I took a small section from the butterfly and then used match color to make the wings yellow.