A Work in Progress: Ancient Anunnaki



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Ancient Anunnaki
In Contest:
gate ornament


Original image


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Cut out most of the background.

Creation of Ancient Anunnaki: Step 1

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I found the one that looks the most like a face.

Creation of Ancient Anunnaki: Step 2

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Copied and pasted to new layer. Flipped horizontal in Edit/Transform.

Creation of Ancient Anunnaki: Step 3

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Began roughly filling in face.

Creation of Ancient Anunnaki: Step 4

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Cut out the source to create a crown type of adornment and the top of his body.

Creation of Ancient Anunnaki: Step 5

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I overlayed another copy of the source on the face for more accesories.

Creation of Ancient Anunnaki: Step 6

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I drew in Pyramids and considered leaving the background with the source but decided to go with a different background and change the crown.

Creation of Ancient Anunnaki: Step 7

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Created a Staff by copying and pasting part of the gate source on to a different layer.

Creation of Ancient Anunnaki: Step 8

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Increased the size of the Staff. I bean painting in the hand with a dark background

Creation of Ancient Anunnaki: Step 9

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More painting of the hand.

Creation of Ancient Anunnaki: Step 10

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Finished the hand. Added the ring from the source. Guassian blur for the DOF effect.

Creation of Ancient Anunnaki: Step 11

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Added more to crown. Cut and pasted here and there. Blending in face with crown using cloning, shading, and blur/blur tool.

Creation of Ancient Anunnaki: Step 12

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Began painting in lips.

Creation of Ancient Anunnaki: Step 13

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Continued painting in lips.

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Worked on eyes. Added upper and lower eyelids by drawing with the lasso tool, filling with the clone stamp of the face, then adding shading with black paint and blurring.

Creation of Ancient Anunnaki: Step 15

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Finished the eyes. Finished the crown. Cleaned up up as needed.

Creation of Ancient Anunnaki: Step 16

Final result

Creation of Ancient Anunnaki: Final Result

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