Day of the Moth

Here is an attempt at something new (or diff. from all my other works). I picked the moth...well mainly because I took this bitchin photo of one that flew into my kitchen lol. But i realized the moth can symbolize many things. A moth can be beautiful like a butterfly...with all its color and patterns and symbolize happiness or hope (basically have a butterfly "vibe"), yet a moth can also be ugly and symbolize death or similar topics/feelings. I tried to recreate that with this picture...its kinda scary yet has a strange fairy tale feeling.


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That is exceptionally good. I love it. It's flawless to me. Your best work yet. Make more.

very artistic - I like it a lot

i also like it a lot, love the scattered glowing effect

Yes I agree with Malevolent - very likely one of your best works yet. You took more than one picture of the moth, right? Where did you get the picture of the woman? Was she a statue or did you make her that? Again, I really like this one.

tom

Thnx for the great comments!

And yes thats more than 1 pic of a moth. Only like 3 though....

The woman ( i dont wanna blow my secret) is really a "De-poser-ized" Poser model. I posed her (in poser)...exported to 3dmax to smooth her out (poser models look like crap) and give her some GI (global illumination...it makes her look real). Then I redefined her figure using the eraser tool and used the clone stamp to repaint about 90% of her body. Thats how i got the woman lol (it was a lot of trouble...but i dont wanna buy stock photos/hire a model + i dont know anyone i can take a photo of lol).

As to the statue part....well i had a high quality photo of cement (and a couple other textures...including wood ) laying around which set to overlay.... with some editing...comes out quite well. I repainted most of the cracks to really bring out the statue look...and i erased her hair completely and repainted that.

As you can see....thats a bit of work. Maybe 3 days worth. Actually the worst part was the files size. This pic is originally 1000 x 1294. So with a 3d render of 2000x2000 and maybe 15 + quality 1600x1200 photos my "working" files size was 120MB's. My computer handled it fine until i wanted to zoom in!!!! (i crashed more than once lol.)

That's some really very beautiful work.

That is very nice. Ive never seen anything that detailed made in PS by anyone. It's dark, yet it also has this feeling of fantasy like you said. Very nice.