A Work in Progress: Odd World Being



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The Start of the head I used the pen tool to chop out a portion of the area the feet were on and used it to start.

Duplicate the areas and merge together to make the head

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Take the shiny part for the face then merge. Then you do some dodge burn and liquefy

and duplicate the other area for the jacket area

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Next I used the eyes from the upstart.jpg from morguefile.com for the eyes and then to make the nose I used the burn and dodge tools as well as a bit of smudging

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Next for the mouth I added in a rectangle type of shape then used the warp tool to form the mouth area and again merged down and used the burn and dodge tools and blended in a bit with some clone and healing tools

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some more liquefy and burning of the cheek areas and chin areas as well

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chopped out a portion of the abdomen area for the bottoms and again with some wrap and liquefy and added it on to the jacket area

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Now I chopped out another shiny part again and then again used the liquefy tool to form a set of feet while also masking and erasing areas with a low opacity to get a round edge on the feet areas.

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foot area chopped

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liquefy the foot

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Next add the leg and foot to your guy then use some clone tools and heal with some burn to adjust the leg areas.

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Next I worked on the background area I used the france ocean view and matched the color of the shiny surface and then added contrast and brightness down a bit. Once I had a nice look and feel I then did a blended in the planets by adding them top and using the blending mode of lighten

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Add them together and adjust sharpness and design with topaz

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again chopped out the shiny area and used it to form a ship

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some warping and smudging and burn and dodging and then adding at the very end I used the hue/saturation to give a reddish glow to the smoke area in back

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here I used the blur mode and just selected the back area to give it a bit of a trail

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some burn and dodging to start off and a desaturated layer on the bottom

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wanted to do a bit of despeckling so I used topaz clean to clean it up a bit

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invert hue/saturation area and then color it in to give a bit of color to the back of the ship

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more burn and blend with some dodge in

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add the ship to the background area

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Add in your Odd World being to the front burn and blend a bit more and give a ever so slight light shadowing under his feet and your done :)

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Final result

Creation of Odd World Being: Final Result

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