A Work in Progress: Cyclops Returns

This guide was made for entry:
Cyclops Returns
In Contest:
mythological creatures

step 1 of 16

*Moderator* Sources only allowed 10 entries, so here is the source for the Sheep picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/piper/5746089738/sizes/l/

Crop out Cyclops, sharpened and started painting skin. I used an orangey flesh color using Color blend mode.

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Copied right foot and flipped horizontal. Ready to place on left leg.

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step 3 of 16

Foot placed and warped into place.

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step 4 of 16

Hair, eye and tusks colored noral and reduced opacity. Extended missing top of staff.

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Colored staff used color blend and touch up.

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Made very rough (don't laugh) sketch of cave layout.

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Cave walls and floor and opening roughed in using sketch as a general guide.

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Cropped out trees from a source pic and placed in scene. Tweaked trees slightly with clone stamp.

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step 9 of 16

Cut out ship.

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Ship and Cyclops temporarily placed in scene.

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step 11 of 16

Crop out fire and feather edges

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step 12 of 16

Place fire under pot. Add broth into pot using greenish color with some noise added.

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step 13 of 16

Crop out three Greek warriors.

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Warriors flipped horizontal and resized. Also cropped out basket from another source and placed in scene.

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A dark blue layer was placed over everything. I then masked out the cave opening. The dark blue layer was multiply blended with reduced opacity.

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A glow layer was placed above the dark blue overlayer. Areas were lightened with a reduced opacity Color Dodge brush of a light yellow/orange color. Final touch-up and adjustments with Camera Raw filter were made before finalizing.

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Final result

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