A Work in Progress: Dragonfly Trinket

This guide was made for entry:
Dragonfly Trinket
In Contest:
steinbach

Original image

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Masked out part's I wanted.

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Completed masking

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Take the steam pipe

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Attach it to the front and blend in

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Attempted to use this for something, but it didn't work out.

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Attempt with the wings.

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Attempt with the wings.

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Attempt with the wings.

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Attempt with the wings.

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Attempt with the wings.

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I started tracing around https://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/207/flashcards/2774207/jpg/aeshnidae1360735018496.jpg

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Used the warp tool, but of course it messed them up a little so I had to adjust them some.

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Added rope

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Clean up

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Leg work

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Trying to figure out how to do the legs.

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I couldn't come up with anything for him to be resting on, originally it was thinking of a technical like tower.

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Trying different things for the background.

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Made the head look better.

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Head adjustments.

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Moved some of the belly piping down for the legs.

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Added flares to the wings.

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Added a background. Green Gradient.

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Attempted to do the tower

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I took the steam pipe and put it on the end. I had a hard time finishing this part trying to make it look complete.

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Tried a couple variations to start the grass like tech tower.

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Another attempt....

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Drew some green wires, multiplied them and then shrunk them together.

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Final result

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