This tutorial's finished product features my boyfriend's band, The Diving Captain, having a super awesome music party inside a vintage diving helmet. And their party is simply so amazing, that the helmet is melting due to the increasing coolness inside of it!
That's what it's supposed to look like, anyways. I really liked this project, it was fun and challenging. The most annoying part of it was that in order to make the drips, I had to make sure that I smudged the entire picture completely, because if I didn't, then the drips would leave these weird shadows of the pictures behind it. It was quite tedious. I really liked playing with making the drips look as realistic as possible, (which didn't exactly work out, but I figured that I had already spent 2 weeks on it, and no more could be spared!), and playing with the brushes palette more. The parts that were the most difficult to create realistically were the glare on the glass, and the engraving. For the glass, I used the Clone Stamp tool, which was interesting, though I'm still not quite sure how it works. And I figured out how to arc text! Which I feel means that, (though I still need and love your guidance, Mrs. Banks-V!), I'm becoming more familiar and savvy with Photoshop!
All in all I'm proud of this work, even though it didn't turn out as perfect as I'd hoped. I'm glad I chose to make a poster/whatever for TDC because it made it more personal for me, though I was originally going to make a cathedral melting, which I'm interested to try someday!
ps. the drip at the bottom is supposed to be going off the page!
1 comment:
zephyr, the diving captain is awesome! i was trying to figure out if that was indeed erin teasdale, so i googled the diving captain, and brian and i have been listening to their myspace page for about twenty minutes now. they're really great. we're incredibly impressed! i really like "no means maybe." they kind of remind me of the kinks. they have that early 60s british rock sound to me. jake's a great singer, too. very impressed.
i quite like your artwork on this piece. i particularly like the concept, which goes so wonderfully with their band name. i keep going back and forth on whether i'd like more contrast on their faces, and i'm still undecided.
my favorite parts are where there are several very short drips followed by a very long one (there's a spot like this on the left one drip level above the name plate.) those are the spots that look particularly realistic to me.
anyway, i think this is very cool. good job.
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