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strata · Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2002 6:00 am

Hi everybody!

I was asked to do a month in a calendar that a design collective that I've had some dealings with are doing, and I thought I'd show you guys... it's 1024x768 so I'm just posting the link

edit: changed the spelling, and the shadow on the shoulder as suggested... plus I had apparently done the wrong month =)

clicky

[ March 28, 2002: Message edited by: strata ]

dARCKLOWN · Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2002 6:49 am

Very cool stuff man i like it

Awetopsy · Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2002 11:58 am

That is cool

madmouth · Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2002 9:54 am

you need to remove the visible outlines on the top of the shoulders of the girl. this is the only thing standing between the picture and wallpaper greatness.

Tinusch · Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2002 2:50 pm

I love it too. Just to nitpick, it's vertebrae. But that's a minor thing. Awesome picture nonetheless.

strata · Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2002 1:49 am

thanks everybody! =D

mad: I tried that, but the shadow just isn't dark enough to justify that... it looks strange... I did remove the rest of the edge though (it was visible all the way down)... I'll see what I can do about it

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tinusch: oop! Thanks man, that'll need to be changed! =D

duality · Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2002 6:38 am

Would kill to know how you got the texture in the skin... Like it much... I agree with the comment about the vertebrae... Cogs are OK; I think an imported vector of the spine or even some kind of integration, size change, etc… anything would be more successful. Like the piece as a whole… If you get the chance, would you please post or e-mail me the specifics of the skin?

strata · Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2002 6:54 am

thanks!

I think you may be right about using a real vertebrae instead of the cogs... but that's how the whole thing started out so I didn't really think about changing it... good point though, I'll keep that in mind for the next one...

as for the skin texture, I'm not sure what you mean... I mean the actual body is as you can tell a black and white photo that I just changed the saturation of... but if you mean the bubbly texture of her lower back then that's a brush called snakeskin (can't remember if I made it myself or found it somewhere... doubt I made it) and I just made a copy of the body on top of the old one, very carefully used the dodge/burn tool with that brush set and made that texture... then I used a layer mask to make it fade out and into the back of her.... simple as that =)

holler if you want the snakeskin brush and I'll bring it into work on tuesday...

thanks for the comments!