This was a tough one, the order was for a sweaty fancy pants warthog evangelist preaching fire and brimstone. Started with a sketch with soft prismacolor pencil on tracing paper. Here you can see it was very rough, but that is all i needed to go by, as I layed the warthog skin in it is easier to see the dimensions and angles of the head. Funny that I don't draw well, but I can paint great. Go figure.
So i pulled reference off of google images, found plenty of great warthogs, and drew my sketch from these, and found high res pics for the skin texture, but never could find a good nose, so I took a pig snout and angled it, and colored it to fit. The tusks were made by simply bending photos into place and airbrushing.
As you see in the original drawing i had a microphone, but it is best to take out anything that is distracting and not helping the momentum of the piece along, so I went for a finger pointing at heaven instead. And comparing the two you can see I was able to give it a stronger more aggressive mouth and jaw.
Could not find a bible in the correct position so had to draw and paint one, same with the pulpit, simplified it way down. Cut up a wood grain pic to build it. Same with the stage floor, just wood grain colorized.
Used actual warthog skin and hair, cloned it off a high res pic, and then added the fine hairs to bring it up nice and nasty. The sweat rolling around the warthog skin I always thought was a lovely touch. And the spit blasting out. The tongue was modeled from a pic of a dog's tongue, and the teeth too. The ears were taken right off of a pic of a warthog.
I Freehanded the fancy suit, and the audience, although they look pretty half baked, could not really figure out how a warthog looked from that angle.
Chose the hot white lighting to pop the darker warthog away from the background, and the cool blues and purples to contrast the yellow and brown preacher.
That is all it is to it. Start with a sketch and then bend photographs into the lines, cloning various textures, and layers, ended up with about 50 layers usually.
Composition is the key to a strong piece. People tend to read left to right, so i design that way, here, I have the light beam moving left to right.
Cut away dead space, unless you need it for effect. Think of the whole piece in percentages. And treat it all like a communication, let the main image take the greatest percentage of piece, and drop less important parts way back in percentage of the overall image, into a secondary size. Exaggerate the size of things you want to stand out. In this case I went for a big ugly snout, eyes, and tusks.
words and words and words and words and words and words and
words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and words and I love the image :D
(Panjandrumbrought to you by tea and biccies,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:40,
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rather good work that
i watched some televangelists on TV when I was in Texas. those guys have hit the motherlode, simultaneously lowering the potential of vast swathes of the human masses and getting stinking rich while they do it. yes sirree, God Inc. is where the smart money is invested
(Tom OBedlamI have control of a tank,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:40,
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I like this image
people on this website are scared of words
haha
WORDS WORDS WORDS!
:D
(discomeatsThis canoe,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:41,
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I'm not scared of them.
I'm not.
(mofaha┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:42,
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oh yeah, well
*rubs mofaha with a dictionary*
AHAHAHAHAHAH
NOW I AM THE MASTER!
O_o
(discomeatsThis canoe,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:45,
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I was afraid of worms, Roxanne! WORMS!
Ooops, my eyesight is as bad as my hearing.
(setimretlikes his metaphors mixed, not stirred,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:45,
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*inflates trumpet*
let's put that hearing to the test!
(discomeatsThis canoe,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:49,
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Many many words!
If you're going to make a habit of this (and don't get me wrong I'm sure that the tutorial side of things is appreciated by people who know more about photoshopping than I), then it might be worth your while setting up a blog or something with the tutorials on them, and you can link to it from here.
Even this number of words is making me feel a bit dizzy...
(barryheadwoundMul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:41,
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actually the blog idea for tutorials is a great idea
thus people who see his guy's photomashes for the first time then have a place to refer to for the rest of the stuff he's done, and it keeps all the explanations in one place
(The Great Architectis still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:51,
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Indeed.
(barryheadwoundMul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 15:23,
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It's interesting to see how an expert works, and pick up tips.
I'm a bit hindered by being completely unable to draw, however.
(Je suis un vagabondis an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:49,
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this^
although i think most of us do a fair bit of all that stuff without the base drawing or any clear idea of where the image is going anyway. i make it up as i go along, i expect it shows.
(god save the queenmaking another unremarkable comeback,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:54,
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It does read a little like that yes :(
but that's down to it being written in a style more suited to the writing of a blog than a tutorial. In fact, I wouldn't go so far as to call it a tutorial, it is only an explanation of basic photoshop techniques used. Still, interesting to see the final piece and read the explanation, it's a cracking end result as well :)
(The Great Architectis still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 15:04,
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it's more of a
"I'm sick of you mere plebeians commenting that I don't make my own material so just to shut you up before you get the chance to start here's a brief overview of how I'm so much better at this than you".
As I said. If you want to show your working out then it's supposed to go in the margin. Or link to it on your blog/tutorial site.
(Pasanonic's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 15:12,
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That's a bit overly-suspicious and paranoid, don't you think?
(Je suis un vagabondis an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 15:44,
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what have I got to be paranoid about?
He's certainly not technically better with photoshop than I am.
(Pasanonic's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 15:53,
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I was more getting at the whole assuming he thinks he's better than you bit.
Maybe he's just sharing.
(Je suis un vagabondis an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 16:06,
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that's actually quite interesting reading the process... Outstanding pic too!
(theoriginalsteve<this space intentionally left blank>,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:43,
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(elephant riderproperty shark sighted!,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:14,
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uh.. no? Actually I'm smarter than you, and i'm not a fuck. Croatia is wor-torn. Get over it. Move to fucking Iowa or some other place if you really care.
(charliek.: idly prodding the mediocrity envelope :.,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:49,
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Yes, I applaud this!
(Dave Trouser; the people's choice - 75% agree,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:53,
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100th post!
presenting 5 facts about me you don't care about: fact the first: I own a genuine russian hat. fact the second: I'm anti-ipod. fact the third: I have literally no religious beleifs. fact the fourth: I'm currently reading dune messiah. fact the fifth: this is my 100th post between main and talk, not counting off topic or qotw. well, that's it until the next milestone. is it 250, 500 or 1000? I forget. oh, and have a pea: the peng, a rare species of baboon.
(venortapparently exists,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:50,
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Try reading the FAQ to celebrate.
(elephant riderproperty shark sighted!,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:51,
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any particular part?
(venortapparently exists,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:52,
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All of it.
Reposts in new threads push other peoples' work off the board, so they are a no-no.
Another thing to bear in mind is that if something took less time to make than post, then it's not worth a thread.
If you're desperate to peddle this information about yourself, why not wait until the gayshift when things are a bit slower.
(elephant riderproperty shark sighted!,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:56,
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For the uninitiated:
Gayshift = approximately midnight until around 8am. It's a lot slower on the board and general complete nonsense or quick'n'dirty photoshops are more welcome.
(Matazonehas new icons, but is keeping this one,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:58,
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(yanmania...last shagged your mum on,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:21,
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If everyone did what they wanted then the board would be rubbish.
Telling him the rules when prompted does not qualify as Nazism. That's moaning when someone posts slightly over limits or creates threads slightly too quickly.
I can also do "what the fuck I like" by your reasoning, so what are you doing complaing about my actions?
(elephant riderproperty shark sighted!,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:28,
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Can
I be a nazi then? My mum will be so proud that I've achieved something.
(social hand grenadeI was a lurker before you were a lurker,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:49,
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Venort: When you make a new thread, you push someone else's work off the bottom of the page. In some cases, that image may have taken them many hours to make, in others only minutes, but either way it makes people unhappy if their work is pushed off by a repost. Frankly, it's more than a little disrespectful, so try not to do that again please.
(Matazonehas new icons, but is keeping this one,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:54,
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and when you post a four line reply you help push someone else off!
(Wobbly BlokeHello, did I miss anything on,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:57,
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Push me off baby
harder harder.
(Matazonehas new icons, but is keeping this one,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:58,
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haha its like you have no idea what you're doing
(Tom OBedlamI have control of a tank,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:55,
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All together now...
F.A.I.L.
everybody sing F...I.A.L...
(Wobbly BlokeHello, did I miss anything on,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:56,
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*sings*
typo intentional?
(venortapparently exists,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:58,
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Yup!
* This post contains a lie
(Wobbly BlokeHello, did I miss anything on,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:02,
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I have just had the pleasure of finding out that Ebuyer/CityLink can't deliver my new equipment today even though I paid for it to be delivered today. So, that's another Ebuyer order cancelled. They really are shit. Last time they screwed up was because they didn't give the courier my address. Waste of a day off.
(finnbarhas officially retired,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:58,
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Redex!
(2 Can ChunderWord to your mums, I came to prod bums,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:06,
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yay!
(RiffRafflurking like a lurky thing,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 14:27,
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my tablet is broken, drawing with a touch pad is hard
(Tom OBedlamI have control of a tank,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:26,
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is it offically dead? never to live again?
(k3b/-\bPeace man.,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:28,
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i need to find someone to solder it for me or buy a new pen
(Tom OBedlamI have control of a tank,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:31,
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:(:(:(:(
got a physics dept at the uni?
go find it, knock on a lab window where they might solder and try your luck. When I worked in one there was more than a few people that would have done it. and it did happen...
(k3b/-\bPeace man.,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:33,
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i've no idea where the physics types are.
after this lecture i'm going to have a word with a new computer repair shop thats just opened in our union. the main computer tech department don't "have the facilities"
(Tom OBedlamI have control of a tank,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:34,
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um google your uni and physics?
(k3b/-\bPeace man.,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:35,
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actually... i know a guy who does electronic engineering....
i'll have a word
(Tom OBedlamI have control of a tank,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:37,
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boom cheapy solution more money for grog.
(k3b/-\bPeace man.,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:38,
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you drew that city with a touch pad?!?!
:D
(theoriginalsteve<this space intentionally left blank>,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:28,
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and rock and roll
(Barbarossais not my real name,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:32,
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And rock and ...
Bollocks.
(Je suis un vagabondis an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:34,
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rock and bollocks?
That's not right!
(Barbarossais not my real name,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:38,
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They've run this strip for 14 years and nothing ever happens...
(monkeonschmonkeon,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:26,
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I always thought Walter the Softy would adopt him if anything ever happened to Dennis...
(Barbarossais not my real name,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:27,
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Do they still have Walter the Softy?
Not very PC in this day and age is it...
(Barbarossais not my real name,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:28,
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they a few years ago when I finally stopped reading it.
(k3b/-\bPeace man.,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:29,
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slow reader, huh.
(Barbarossais not my real name,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:29,
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pffffft. I don't know what's worse, that joke
or reading the beano at 16-17
(k3b/-\bPeace man.,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:30,
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i could take a guess...
(Barbarossais not my real name,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:33,
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go on then
(k3b/-\bPeace man.,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:33,
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*guesses*
(Barbarossais not my real name,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:34,
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what was your guess?
(k3b/-\bPeace man.,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:35,
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your guess is as good as mine
(kingsuperspecialis in an audience, wanking furiously,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:37,
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Sorry, that's on a need to know basis
(Barbarossais not my real name,
Tue 17 Feb 2009, 13:40,
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i'd like to see walter go mental and stab dennis in the face with a pen knife
either that or some out of the closet properly and shack up with the equally camp cuthbert from the bash street kids