A Work in Progress: Alien Vacation

This guide was made for entry:
Alien Vacation
In Contest:
iron sun

Original image

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Here is my picture of the funny alien I drew

Drawn on May 2 2010

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Chop out the Part of the Sun

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Warp,Distort,Free Transform to the arm

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Duplicate and place on the opposite side. Do some Burn for more of a pop out look

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Chop out the hand of the sun

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Add the hand onto the arm and blend it with the arm clone spot and general healing , smudge,blur and burn

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used the color from the back wall to color in the alien guy

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start to color your alien in with the wall color

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Chop out the eyes of the sun and add them in by masking them in. Then burn portions of the face and eye areas and add some color

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Chop out the green leaves on the side then use the motion blur filter on and then add it to your legs with a couple duplications. Once you do that then again use some highlight burn to outline the pant areas

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Step 1 of the pant legs

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The duplication and burn of the shorts/pants

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Here I did a bit of clean up to start a nice shirt

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Next chop out the part of the sun that had yellow and some of that red in it and again motion blur filter on an angle to start the shirt. Used many layers to make a shirt while masking and making adjustments for proper fitting

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Next used the burn tools again to outline a bit more for more pop on the shirt and pant areas for blending

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Here I just did some more burn and dodging

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more adjustments with some smudging and burn

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Here I chop out just the face of the sun to start on making a hover board for my alien

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Distort and perspective for making the hover board/craft a bit more flatter and then clone stamp and go over with some smudge and burn lightly

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Once I had these main portions done I opened a new canvas to incorporate everything that I have so far.
So I magic wand out my alien from what I have to add on the new canvas

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Next I want to add some legs to this work so I duplicate the alien and chop out the back portion of his neck to start on a leg

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Here I start to shape out the legs with the little neck piece.

I used the warp and distort tools to get one of them and then duplicate and add in the upper thigh areas

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I duplicated the upper thigh and added it to the lower again transforming it to fit and smudge,and blend together.

Then I chop out this bottom portion to start making the water

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I started to make the water but then I started to warp it and thought about making another ship hovering. So Here I just start warping and then I duplicated and flip vertical and add them together. Then I invert this portion

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Here is how it looked once I inverted it

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Here I used some blending tools and burning tools to give it more shape

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Gave it just a very small bit of a hue/saturation on the bottom of a bit of yellow gold but very light

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Here I just was doing some clean up on the alien and fixed the matting by doing some defringe to it to rid of some of the white outline from the wand chop earlier

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Next I decided to chop the grass out and duplicate it a few times to start on the water

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Ok so then I take the grass and give it motion blur to make the water

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then a bit more on transforming the water parts together

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Next to give the water a nice blue color I used the hue/saturation and inverted it then colored it over

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Ok so I wanted to add some neat looking lights to the hover board/craft so i chop out the eyes of the sun again

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Wala here is the chop for the new lights to be added and blended onto the board

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Now I took the side of the outside blinds and chop it out and then use it in little pieces to make a flipper looking area for his foot later on after I make the foot area

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So take this part and duplicate and warp it and add it together to make the flipper

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Here I add the flipper together

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Warp the flipper for the feet and then duplicate for the other foot

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Ok now I needed feet so I added the neck part again 2 times to make a foot

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Here I did the same thing with 1 neck area and used it to make the calf of the leg and then blend it together with the rest of the leg and again burn tools to shade in

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Ok so here I added more shading and dodging to the feet to give a sort of toes look in a way. then I did some shading again with burn and then I added on my eye buttons to the hover board/craft and shaded them and blended more to the board itself and then dodge the lights on the board.

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And very last more shading touch ups and a gradient blue and white backdrop over the water. Also added the hover craft and spaceship on the water a bit for more shadowing.

Final result

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