A Work in Progress: Fly me to the moon

This guide was made for entry:
Fly me to the moon
In Contest:
man on moon

step 1 of 11

I created a new file with grey layer. These are the two references.

step 2 of 11

Use the burn tool with Midtones range (so it will work on gray tone), Exposure 20%, to make the outline of the face. I used Wacom Intuous 3.0 tablet.

step 3 of 11

Draw more detail on the face, only focus on dark areas. Some darkest areas, I need to switch to the shadow mode of burn tool, so I can achieve the desired level of shadow, otherwise they will reach just the midtones

step 4 of 11

step 5 of 11

Draw smallest details by zooming different parts on the face

step 6 of 11

step 7 of 11

I added the highlight by Dodge tool, Midtones (on midtones) and Shadow (on shadow) range, 20% exposure.

step 8 of 11

The grayscale layer was almost finished

step 9 of 11

Add more highlights by Dodge tool

step 10 of 11

Colorizing: use a blank layer on top of the grayscale layer, change the mode to colors and use soft brush to paint on.

step 11 of 11

At the last step I drew the moon on the top layer, using Screen mode, white soft brush, and erase tool to make details on the moon surface. I didn't use any reference for the moon so if you look carefully, it's nothing similar (but who cares?).

Final result

Votes

user	voted
breathemute
loopyluv
RIPSAW
Score: 10

Comments

loopyluv says:

DAYUM........................... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(5 years and 2735 days ago)

Pxleyes

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