I Got Inspired By Looking For Graphic Novel Insperation A Couple Of Months Back. I've Finally Got Round To Actully Doing This (Took Just Under 3 Hours From Finding The Right Images To Creating This Final Piece.


*So I took the girl stock image and then found an image with a tiara. I cut out the tiara flipped it and then put it onto my girl image. Removed the bits I didn't want and then blured the edges of the tiara.

*I then put green over the eyes (eyeshadow) and over the lips (lipstick) and dress and made the layer "linear light".

*Then using the smudge, dodge and burn tools I changed the way her skin looked to make it smoother change her eyes a little and change her nose.

*Then using dodge I put high lights in her hair and on her main light up features. Then using dodge darkened a little round the back of her hair, under her jaw and some parts of her hair.

*I then cut out the background. Found an "IVY" background and then made a black and white gradient over that and applied that to the background as a soft light.

*It looked like something was missing so I found a stock of an earing. cut it out, cut out the little bits inside it. Then placed it over the girl. Then I went back to the girl layer and using burn tool i added shadow behind the earing. Then back on the earing layer I selected the blue coloured stone and made it green. Then blured it a little.

*I then merged everything except the backgrounds together and blured out the out line.

*I then merged everything together including the backgrounds and used the blur tool to blur out some little bits.



- GIRL - [link]

- TIARA - [link]

- EARING - [link]

- IVY - [link]


IMAGE CREATED IN PHOTOSHOP


UPDATE 27th October 2009 - Added green boarder and re-sized image to a little bit smaller size xoxox