A Work in Progress: Player in Action(Realistic)

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Player in Action(Realistic)
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wc soccer

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Creation of Player in Action(Realistic): Step 1

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Started painting the background using a soft brush.

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Painted some noise. I painted lots of dots, then I copied and pasted them all over the place.

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Distort noise to add some texture to the field. I later made it partially transparent and erased the edges.

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Soften edges of noise and painted some details. Also I decided not to paint the letters in the back. Painted the ball using selection tool + soft paint brush.

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Created another layer under the painted ball and started painting the player.

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Started painting the player.

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The rest includes painting and erasing.

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Copied and pasted previously created noise

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Transformed, copied, pasted

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Ended up covering the entire image with noise. Made it partially transparent and changed the layer blending mode.

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Color Balance

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Forgot to show this important step. I created a grid(4x5) in the very beginning. Later I added lots of guides to help me out with proportions.

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Painted psd file. You can see my layers.

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Without background. And the player with the ball is a dropped copy form of two separate layers.

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Scoot over ball layer. O_O

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The previous step show before the ball and player were dropped together. This step shows the other layer where they are together. You can see the brush strokes.

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Final result

Votes

user	voted
Francky
LEEBAOREN
jorgechavo7
kuzmadom
anarchick
Disco
DYNOSSAURUS
sunzet
Toothpick134
Toothpick134
jawshoewhah
George55
iquraishi
Alan2641
Score: 7.86

Comments

author says:

There was no tracing involved. I used a 4x5 grid to make the proportions even

(5 years and 3244 days ago)

author says:

Later I added more squares for adding more details. As you see in the last step.

(5 years and 3244 days ago)

author says:

Update: added more steps

(5 years and 3244 days ago)

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