A Work in Progress: The Trody



This guide was made for entry:
The Trody
In Contest:
toy bug


Original image


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Just a quick sketch (REALLY quick) to get my idea onto the canvas.

Creation of The Trody: Step 1

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I took the spiders smile and used it to make a scales, waring and moving each new scale.

Creation of The Trody: Step 2

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next I started using pieces of the red part of the spider to for the top of the head.

Creation of The Trody: Step 3

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I used the smile again here, but flipped it upside down and cut part out. then I also put the eye from the spider on it and desaturated them.

Creation of The Trody: Step 4

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Next the bottom jaw and added in the antenna. This whole time I have only been using the pen tool.

Creation of The Trody: Step 5

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next I used one of the spiders yellow legs to make the legs of my creature. I cut and warped pieces to make them shaped as I wanted.

Creation of The Trody: Step 6

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Next i put it back over top of the original image.

Creation of The Trody: Step 7

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using the patch and close stamp tools I removed the spider.

Creation of The Trody: Step 8

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next I did some blurring of the grass that is closer to the camera and the grass farther behind him to get more realistic depth of field. I also started darkening the edges a bit by painting with a big soft black brush at a low opacity.

Creation of The Trody: Step 9

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Added the glowing antenna, then began shading the face. From here on out I mostly just painted on top of the bug with black and white to build up the depth and create highlights and shadow.

Creation of The Trody: Step 10

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Painted highlights on the eyes and worked on the moth some.

Creation of The Trody: Step 11

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More shading and detailing.

Creation of The Trody: Step 12

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Shaded legs and scales

Creation of The Trody: Step 13

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Darkened background more to make it look more like night time.

Creation of The Trody: Step 14

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Desaturated the whole thing just a little, and painted some texturing on the face. After this just last little details and overall tweak to get the finished image!

Creation of The Trody: Step 15

Final result

Creation of The Trody: Final Result

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