A Work in Progress: Elvis in the sky



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Elvis in the sky
In Contest:
iron sun


Original image


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I extracted the sun, put onto the new document, drew the sketch under the sun by hard brush

Creation of Elvis in the sky: Step 1

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Put the background on the bottom layer

Creation of Elvis in the sky: Step 2

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To draw Elvis, I made the vector image of him on separate layers (I changed the opacity of each layer for convenient view). Each part I created a new layer, arranged by the order in the 3-D dimension. Only pen tool was used

Creation of Elvis in the sky: Step 3

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This is the vector image of Elvis I finished. I use only the gray scale, then paint colors later

Creation of Elvis in the sky: Step 4

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The thing connect the sun and Elvis was made from the source.
Now I color the vector image. To do that I created clipping layer on top of each layer I created, then choose the color I like, use brush tool with low opacity to paint (I used a tablet). Overlay them with different color shades to make the 3-D effect on the object.

Creation of Elvis in the sky: Step 5

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Elvis is almost finished

Creation of Elvis in the sky: Step 6

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The same technique was used to make the head

Creation of Elvis in the sky: Step 7

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Complete the shadow effect on the "model" (just used black brush on each clipping layer)

Creation of Elvis in the sky: Step 8

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Drew the ray by pen tool

Creation of Elvis in the sky: Step 9

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The electricity was made by drawing on a layer with outer glow option (yellow glowing effect)

Creation of Elvis in the sky: Step 10

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Put a solid black on the background layer, blend to the bottom layer by soft light option. Use eraser to erase some part of the cloud. Use white brush to make the sun from the far view

Creation of Elvis in the sky: Step 11

Final result

Creation of Elvis in the sky: Final Result

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