A Work in Progress: Dragon sleeps

This guide was made for entry:
Dragon sleeps
In Contest:
dragons 2

step 1 of 13

Making the drawing

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step 2 of 13

this is the part a took out for the body

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step 3 of 13

Make the drawing transparent by selecting all the white and removing it.

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step 4 of 13

Here is the part I took for the back knee.

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step 5 of 13

Place every part of the dragon an put it under the drawing. afterwards you can easily take away the parts that stand out.

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step 6 of 13

By selecting on the drawing you can see on the komodo-photo which parts fits the best in the end result.

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step 7 of 13

When everything is placed in position we get this result after we deleted the first drawing.

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step 8 of 13

By selecting my own nails I can get a bit of the shining also..
Select a pointy nail inside the nail photo... we use this for nails but also for the teeth.

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step 9 of 13

After the teeth are set, we can go over the borders with a black marker to make the drawing fit with our elements

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step 10 of 13

Making the panels on his back.. changed the color with hue/saturation.. use only hue do.

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step 11 of 13

Putting in some hi-lights with pure white, and making shadows with the burntool.

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step 12 of 13

original hand photo; my photo

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step 13 of 13

original komodo photo; my photo

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Final result

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