A Work in Progress: Lestat



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Lestat
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step 1 of 7

placement/ contrast adjustment

Creation of Lestat: Step 1

step 2 of 7

initial liquify work done

Creation of Lestat: Step 2

step 3 of 7

burning done to add dimension...more liquify to adjust some facial features

Creation of Lestat: Step 3

step 4 of 7

step four couldn't be uploaded, there was something wrong with my file. But that step is where i desaturated skin tones and brought out more of the facial features with burning and dodging.

the image below is technically step 5, but...you can see the work i did on the eyes specifically with a seperate layer of just color, then did some work to bring out the definition of the eyes.

Creation of Lestat: Step 4

step 5 of 7

started building the background. extracted the vampire and placed it in front of the castle.

Creation of Lestat: Step 5

step 6 of 7

lightning added to the sky...layer set to screen

Creation of Lestat: Step 6

step 7 of 7

texture from source image overlayed on the sky to give more drama.
gradient layers were added, along with some fog.

final step i did a color overlay over the entire image.

Creation of Lestat: Step 7

Final result

Creation of Lestat: Final Result

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