A Work in Progress: Alien



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Original image


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Here I drew the basic shape of the head.

Creation of Alien: Step 1

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I sketched in an idea of what I wanted the face to look like. I did this using a brush in photoshop.

Creation of Alien: Step 2

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I cut the face in half to keep it symmetrical and began using the burn and dodge tools to paint in some detail.

Creation of Alien: Step 3

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I go further ewith the burn and dodge tools, adding some shadows and highlights.

Creation of Alien: Step 4

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I duplicate the half of a face and flip it horizontally to create the other side of the face.

Creation of Alien: Step 5

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Here I used the burn and dode tools some more to create more shadows and highlights showing more detail.

Creation of Alien: Step 6

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In this step I cut out the portion of the source image I no longer wanted.

Creation of Alien: Step 7

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Here I used the burn and dodge tools to draw in a mouth.

Creation of Alien: Step 8

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In this step I began to draw the eyes.

Creation of Alien: Step 9

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I simply made the iris of the eye by redering clouds and setting my fore and background colors to dark green and light green. I then rendered difference clouds and hit CTRL + F until I got difference clouds that I was happy witth. I then burned the edges of the iris and drew in the pupil using a circular marquee and a fill of black.

Creation of Alien: Step 10

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In this step I duplicated the eye created in the previous step and flipped it horizontally and moved it to the left eye socket.

Creation of Alien: Step 11

Final result

Creation of Alien: Final Result

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