A Work in Progress: Mountain Towers



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Cut out pawn

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Background gradient

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Copied pawn and pasted the copy over the original pawn. Then I distorted it.

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Copied and pasted the pawn as a step for the stairs.

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Same process

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Painted some details

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Created the shade by distorting the previously created fence.

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Painting more details

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Copied building and pasted the copies across the landscape.

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Started painting the moon. Forgot to mention that the copies were blurred to give the image some depth.

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Distorted moon

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Messing around with layer properties.

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I was going to work with a desert scene, but it didn't work out so well. So I decided to go with a colder climate.

The old man, and birds were digitally painted.

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Decided to use external source images to make it easier on me.

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Cut out sky.

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Matching colors between images.

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Cut out sky from the landscape pic so I can place the mountain behind it.

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Fixed the sky by repainting it.

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Started painting details, and added some dense atmosphere.

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Painted shadow and made it partially transparent.

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Final result

Creation of Mountain Towers: Final Result

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