A Work in Progress: Burn fire burn



This guide was made for entry:
Burn fire burn
In Contest:
iguana


Original image


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I used the magic wand (and the pen tool in some places) to select then mask out the tower, duplicated and transformed the masked out version to get the the tower you see.

Creation of Burn fire burn: Step 1

step 2 of 11

using some parts of the sourced i started to build the body of the dragon.

Creation of Burn fire burn: Step 2

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Continued with building the body (I used the warp and liquify tools quite a lot)..

Creation of Burn fire burn: Step 3

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using the selected part i built the claws and the scales (or whatever those are) on the tail.

Creation of Burn fire burn: Step 4

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Using the selected part of the source and a bit of another iguana (unfortunately the part needed here for the wings was too blurry in the source so i had to find an alternative) i built the wings. Again a lot of warping and liquifying.

Creation of Burn fire burn: Step 5

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Cutting apart the head and then rebuilding it I made the dragons head.

Creation of Burn fire burn: Step 6

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started to mask out the flames.

Creation of Burn fire burn: Step 7

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finished masking out the flames, added the masked out flames (4 times) and started to change some colors.

Creation of Burn fire burn: Step 8

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added shadows.

Creation of Burn fire burn: Step 9

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Added background.

Creation of Burn fire burn: Step 10

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Changed the color of the background, worked on details, added smoke coming out of his nose (hardly visible) and worked some more on other details.

Enjoy.

Creation of Burn fire burn: Step 11

Final result

Creation of Burn fire burn: Final Result

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