A Work in Progress: Strange Dreams



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Strange Dreams
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Isolate the head and stretch out the basic shape

Creation of Strange Dreams: Step 1

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Use the liquify, blur and smudge tools to create a strange shaped eye and a feather. The feather will be used later.

Creation of Strange Dreams: Step 2

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Duplicate the eye and flip to make a mask. Use the liquify and smudge tools on the head to further form it.

Creation of Strange Dreams: Step 3

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Take a chunk of the hair and deform to make a blob of a body, using liquify, smudge and warp.

Creation of Strange Dreams: Step 4

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Use the liquify and smudge tools to make a ruffle out of the bulge body. Copy into a few layers to fill it out.

Creation of Strange Dreams: Step 5

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Place the body and change the hue to better match the rest.

Creation of Strange Dreams: Step 6

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Place a couple feathers and a layer over filled with a bluey green gradient clipping mask.

Creation of Strange Dreams: Step 7

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copy them to make a big pile of feathers along the arm. make the back ones a little darker as you go along. Place them on both arms and the head.

Creation of Strange Dreams: Step 8

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Take a piece of the ruffly part of the doll leg and place at the base of the feathers. Adjust the vibrance.

Creation of Strange Dreams: Step 9

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Use pieces of the dolls hair to make mountains using the warp tool. Make the foreground a little brighter than the background.

Creation of Strange Dreams: Step 10

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Use liquify, film grain and dry brush to make the wierd grassy look.

Creation of Strange Dreams: Step 11

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Use the feathers to make the background.

Creation of Strange Dreams: Step 12

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Use a motion blur and brighten then stretch over the whole sky.

Creation of Strange Dreams: Step 13

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Change the hues to a nice contrasting color from the bird person. Add a bright lens flare.

Creation of Strange Dreams: Step 14

Final result

Creation of Strange Dreams: Final Result

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