This dragon is made of pineapple, eggplant, lettuce, a parsnip, and a photo of my left eye.
I didn't really like the Mythical Creatures challenge when it was announced, but when I saw it was expert editing, I had to enter, because I told myself I wanted to enter the next expert-editing challenge that came along. I wanted an opportunity (or excuse) to exercise my Photoshop skills.
Dragons came to mind, so I did a Google search for source images. Ultimately, the one I liked best was one of the first to come up, and so this is what I modeled my dragon after:
I don't know who the original artist is. I put a copy of this image in a new layer, resized to 3000x4000, and set to work. I had no idea what I was doing at first, but I fairly quickly developed a technique involving the Liquefy tool (which I've never used so extensively before).
I saved copies of my work in progress along the way fourteen times; I uploaded them all, but I'll link to only a few:
All in all, after maybe 30 hours of Photoshopping, I considered myself done. The final image has 299 layers. Here's a 100% crop:
I am ever so impressed by the quality of the final product and absolutely awed at how you did it. This is truly a very creative piece of art and I for one will add this to my Favorites.
Fantastic and creative work! Reminds me the work of the painter Arcimboldo, in a photographic/photoshopic way :-) This is just art, whatever the name people put on it.
"This dragon is made of pineapple, eggplant, lettuce, a parsnip, and a photo of my left eye."
Wow. That's incredible.
Thanks for putting so much work into the explanation. I'll never be able to do it, but I appreciate the steps all the same!
This image blows my mind. Don't listen to the negatives about how this is not a photo. Considering you took vegetables and made it into a dragon is just pure art. It's brilliant, sharp, the colours are vivid and the right parts are list and others dark. It's really well done.
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