A Work in Progress: too real



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too real
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chose a colourful image of a butterfly for the "drawing"

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step 2 of 14

scanned in some coloured pencils (careful to choose suitable colours)...

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scanned in a page from one of my sketchbooks ...

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rotated the sketchbook image ...

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imported the butterfly image, rotated to position ...

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masked away the background ...

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step 7 of 14

duplicated the masked butterfly layer and converted it to a sketch using a combination of filters and trial and error to get the effect I was after ...

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to this "sketchified layer" I added a gradient mask so that the unfiltered realistic image in the layer below could show through ...

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step 9 of 14

like so ...

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dropped the pencils in ...

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step 11 of 14

In order for the butterfly to look like it was trying to fly off before it was finished, a shadow was necessary under the wing on the right. A drop shadow effect didn't work because I didn't want the shadow to occur under the "sketched" part, so I duplicated the layer and blurred it, desaturated it, and lowered its opacity, gave it some transformation - shifting it around somewhat...

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step 12 of 14

pencils need shadows too, this is the drop-shadow effect ...

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to really complete the delaminated wing effect, I stuck the last pencil in under the wing ...

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and gave it a shadow too - just copied the same shadow that was applied to the other pencils, and it's all done.

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Final result

Creation of too real: Final Result

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