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Second runner-up of the June 24th, 2009 Contest: Tiger Fist

 

When thinking of how to best combine the techniques of drawing to photo, smoke mask, and design swirls, I thought it would be interesting to have an image of a fighter that was blasting his way out of the design with some crazy comic book kung fu type of technique. The idea evolved into a tiger themed fighter with the ability to throw a punch that turned his fist into a fiery tiger. Who wouldn’t want to be able to do that?

So using a stock image of a fireball and a tiger I was able to use the “Design with Alpha Channel” technique to create a glowing tiger shape at the end of teh fighter’s arm. I used the “Photo to Drawing” technique to blend the image of the fighter into the canvas. I also included line drawings of a tiger head and lots of hand drawn tiger stripes to give a more complete theme to the design. The “Masking with Shapes” technique yielded the swirls seen along the parchment edges. I wasn’t a fan of these at first, but I think they work well as a compliment to the tiger stripes.

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2 Comments

  1. Bob Murray said on — July 14, 2009 @ 11:31 am

    Very cool. An excellent application of the lesson videos.

  2. bryan said on — September 18, 2009 @ 9:27 am

    That is very cool! I really think this is incredible art.

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