Draw overall head shape with pen tool.
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Draw arms / tentacles with pen tool
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Basic painting of body. Draw basic eye shapes with pen tool.
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Highlight eyes with veins, lights
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Draw brow shape, duplicate layer twice more. Dodge and burn for light and shadow. Warp into shape.
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Liquify brow to really shape it. Add more dodge for light/depth
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Paint, smudge to blend. Dodge and burn for depth
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After trimming shapes and adding darkness at waterline, used a spatter / dry brush in gray, light blue, and white to create layers of splash.
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Liquify the sea a bit.
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Added stormy sky, adjusted levels, shadows. Started the logo using Photoshop custom shape tool.
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Align layers of "logo"
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Apply "logo" to sea monster's head, trimmed excess, warp tool to round out edges, dodge to add light.
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Used tutorial to create scales (link to tutorial provided)
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Fitting the scales layer behind the drawn body parts.
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Change orientation and size of scales layer for each body part. Created mask layers to add effect.
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All body parts with scale layers mask applied
Final result
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