Monday, November 17, 2008

War is (Almost) Over


Hey everybody. I think all of you are on my mailing list, so you've probably already seen this. if not, sorry and send me you e-mail so i can make sure to add you.

This is a piece I put together for a photoshop contest. I had a lot of fun doing it and really sharpened my skills in the process.

Almost all of the destruction in the background was done with brushes or manipulation of what was already in the picture of the industrial plant. The sky was added using a picture I took for another project and the beach was just a random pic i had. The texture, rust, tearing, etc. on the "masked man" were a combination of overlayed pictures and brushes. since only a portion of his head was provided, I took a picture of myself to fill in the blanks, so that is me holding the ornament/bomb (really it was one of Evy's toys). Oh and the guy on the rock is wearing my shoes since his feet were cut off in the original picture.


They provided 7-8 stock pictures. We had to at least use one of them as a main focus of our entry. here are the four I used in there original state.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I really like how this turned out. Enlarged...it looks amazing. Nice work.

Ryan

Manda said...

Wow, that's amazing. It's also amazing that you FINALLY updated your blog. Glad to know you ugys are still alive.
I hope you win the contest. (Or is it already over?)

Syl said...

Great work, Doug! I was impressed!

Amy Weiland said...

This is so cool!! I can autofix pictures!! who's jealous now?