Originally posted by Bear_Music:
That's quite an image, Brother Horse. I'd like more details on how it's made in order to critique it constructively. In general, the shape in the sky is strange and a little offputting, I can report that for sure :-) But I'd like to know what's 'shopped in, basically.
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This is for a beginner contest in Worth 1000 . The Teapot is the image they provided the challenge.
One of my many resolution for 2009 is to improve my skill set on PS.
I basically used a lot of Alpha Channels, color select, feathering, rendering, of images that I have collected in my personal stock files, and a couple of images I "borrowed" from the internet.
73 layers later, with a couple of layer masks thrown in to try and help the light look natural an there you go...Teapot Wars.
I am not happy with the lighting personally. That was the hard part.
Originally posted by Jessi:
I want to know the story behind it!! |
The story is simple...
On an island in the South Pacific, an unassuming people went on with their lives making specialty items for their tourist trade.
The island, a mere 100 miles of square feet, to the average tourist was quaint, and simple with the grass huts, canoes dug out of trees, and the occasional old lady sitting on the side of the road selling coconut drinks to the thirsty traveler.
What was not seen was below the feet of the eager tourist. What was just 50 feet under the ground was another world all together. A world of building, and technology. A world of factories, and a world of heat and sparks of production.
The island people, long ago, with the encouragement of their long dead king Jawaji, decided to move under ground, first, to hide from the Japanese invaders of the great war. Eventually, building permanent structures for their people until today where great machines of WAR are produced.
War machines, great wondrous mechanical devices.
The island people were simple people, and did not know in the beginning how to build such machines, until the capture of a Japanese infantry Captain.
Ilroki Kamakasi, tall for Japanese standards, and thin, too thin for his mother, Captain of the Japanese invasion force for this island was simply out of his command hut one day, and wandered into the jungle looking for fresh coconut. He didn't have any fear for his safety...his country, his army, he was in control of this island. So he thought.
While looking up,searching the trees for coconut, a few native men crawled on their bellies, like crocodiles, out flanking Captain Kamakasi. Tackling the captain like a Sumo wrestler, the Captain was gagged and tied, captured, and brought to the cave's where the future of the island people began.
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