Sky Scape, Dance by Laurie S
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Second part of a two part panel created for my nieces.
Poser / Photo Shop
Sorry forgot to add "a how I did it" type intro yesterday folks, I had no idea you all were paying attention LOL ... thanks for the reminders ;-),
well these images were pretty simple ... my sister had wanted this type of image for the girls for a while and she was fairly specific in what she wanted .. so to start I just painted a huge sky (skies are very easy .. add 4 or 5 shades of blue on different layers and smear at will *g*), first I started with a Bryce sky, I think the default sky actually *blush* and just added on clouds ( I picked the colors from the original sky and just went down a few shades ).and then a grain over the whole thing play with the hues and opacity of each layer. The rocks I painted using a tut by Patric at Epilogue (addy below)
Then I cut the sky in half .. I took the one half (actually I did the second panel first , I have no idea why..) into poser to use as a background image so I could set up the lights in Poser ..as far as the characters .. well those are mainly textures, just select a outline no sleeves and promote it to a layer (ctl j) and then desaturate , then use the Brightness / contrast to darken it ...then hue shift it to a color you want.. same with the face paint.. (link to an example below) ... I make one render of the characters nude .. then another with the new texture map .. this means the light will reflect onto the textures .. remove the background and save as a tif.. back in PS I just detailed the characters and added a few things on like hats .. hair .. shadow and so on ...I made a separate render of the balloons for the panel that used them (a prop found here in Free stuff)... again save as tif and for the balloons I picked a color from the sky and used that as my background color in Poser ..( again then you have the light, shade and reflections right).
Hope this makes sense .. feel free to IM me with any questions and thank you for the interest *s*
Characters: Steph.. Millennium Girl, Wood Elf from Daz
Texture example:
http://www.graphicsattic.com/cg/texexpl.htm
Rock tut:
http://www.epilogue.net/art/tech/
Comments (27)
designfera
Beautiful image!!
akemi
What a great gift for your niece! They are both amazing! This one just flows and is so elegant and charming! Your post work is incredible.
Turtle
Long time no see. Wow your art has become excellant I love it. Just so beautiful, and glad to see you posting here!
d_authority
this is so amazing! i love both dream and dance!
cwshorty
Well I'm pretty much speechless after staring at both of these panels, I love them both!
linwhite
Gorgeous....Lucky nieces. Love both of them and the colors are perfect.
sturkwurk
a fan of Mr. Parkes? Fantastic image!
Jaden
simply beautiful, u really captured the lighting well with the painted clothes
Antoonio
...really beautiful work.
Eowyn
Gorgeous work (then again, what did I expect? I've never seen anything but gorgeous images by you!... :) I love this.
Papu
absolutely amazing
Ecstasy
Gawd I miss great images like this.It realy first rate!!!
luciferino
I like so much your art, in this there is an armony and an elgance that's incredible. I think that your fantasy is unlimitate, an excellent work in all sense.
Mahliqa
A Michael Parkes fan, I see!! What a fabulous piece! I totally adore it. More, please!
BlackSun
Fly fly away up high in the sky.... Great coloring, background and poses.
Tamela.J.
This is really beautiful. Fabulous work.
ladydawg
GORGEOUS....I love this...... I have always looked up to you and your always fantastic work.
nytefall
both of these are just amazing. i love this style :) im a huge michael parkes fan, and these remind me of him :)
silkskinz
This is amazing so orignal.
HMG_Designs
As ever, an excellent job! Your nieces must be so happy!
voodoo
You did a wonderful job here on the whole image. But what sets it apart for me is the feeling of movement and composition. Very pleasing. Balanced.
linkinpark
This is true art...really genial,fantastic,incredible,briliant!!!I cant say more!
Afshid
Very well done.So interesting.
Claymor
Move over Michael Parkes. Laurie, your entire body of work is incredible...thank you for sharing.
monvictorian
Wonderful art work... so beautifully done. This is the meaning of true art. I hope you intend on doing more... of what people arn't doing, because you are superb at it. lol Thanks for sharing your talents.
mks5958
This reminded me a little of Jake Baddeley's style.
mnmpm
wow!!! most excellent!!!