Day Three of working on this Sylvia piece (you can see Day One, and an explanation of why this is taking so long here [link] and Day Two here [link] )

The first thing I did to start Day Three was to airbrush the "sparkle" into the Magic etween Sylvia's hands using both gold and white and "cutting out" the gold nuggets underneath to bring them out. After that, I added all the celshading in the figure, (done by dropping/raising the luminance by 16 points (out of 255)).

I then isolated the magic "nuggets" and copied them to a new image, eroded them to make the gold "bigger" without resizing the whole image. Once they were enlarged, I gaussian blurred them, pasted them as a new layer, and duplicated the layer until they glowed JUST right.

Finally, I took a stock shot of a skull I had on my harddrive, oilpaint-filtering in my old DOS Display program, dropped the brghtness, raised the contrast....

At the very last minute, I realized he DID need to be stretched out, but only from the hips down. She had little stubble legs. So I stretched them a bit to look nicer.

And there ya go. Sylvia from Wishworld. [link]

Hope you liked this series...more are coming, but not at daily intervals.