Glowing Pipes

I have two magazines that are on my must have list while using Photoshop. Photoshop Creative and Imagine FX I only get issues once in a while but they are the ones that I feel will help me the most on my current projects. I recently picked up issue 96 of Photoshop Creative because it had two specific tutorials that I felt would help me with the completion of my mermaid picture. Tutorial one that interests me is Underwater Edits and the second tutorial that made me pick up the issue was Paint with Light. As I am trying to create a bio-luminescence effect on the mermaid herself I decided to start with that tutorial, however, I did not want to attempt the effect on the mermaid until I became comfortable with using the effect on something else. That is why I created something to test myself on first.

Glowing Pipes

Using a 5X7 canvas in Photoshop CS6 I used the line tool to create an outline from there I merged the lines that created one corner of the canvas after that I used the lasso tool on the portions I wanted filled and alternated the gradient fill. Then I arranged the triangles that I created the way I felt they best filled the canvas. Then for each layer I chose to put a stroke blending layer effect and an outer glow effect, keeping the stroke color the lighter of the two colors and the outer glow the darker color with a opacity level of 75%. It's called Glowing Pipes because when it was just in black and white the image looked like steel pipes, I thought that cyan hues, and pink hues worked best for this pattern and had the best glow effect.

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Shamrock

For those of you celebrating Saint Patrick's Day please do so responsibly and may you have fun that you remember having.

This is my little doodle sketched out free hand and then touched up in Photoshop CS6. Tried to play around with a Celtic Knot look.

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY

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Concept Art

I'm still awaiting the results from the art competition I entered so in the mean time I've been quilting and working on other pieces. While I anxiously await the results I thought I would share with you some of the concepts I've started with and when completed I will post the finished projects.

What do you get when you cross Strawberry Shortcake with Wednesday Addams? My alter ego, Blackberry Buckle. I'm trying different styles and Manga is one of my newer challenges, this is my first attempt. The outfit will be in the color scheme of a blackberry, green and dark purple.

While I was watching a marathon of Ink Masters one of the episodes was of people getting portrait tattoos in a military style that was exaggerated proportions. When I saw that one of the tattoo seekers was getting a portrait of herself tattooed on her upper thigh my initial thought was how narcissistic, however my brain didn't finish the word narcissistic, the word was cut off by this image invading my mind of a woman having to paint her face on every morning--literally. This is the concept sketch for one of my pieces I sent in to competition.

This is meant to be a room on a spacecraft and is the background for one of the pieces I sent in for competition. In the window I used my piece, Nebula. This background is entirely created in Photoshop CS6 manipulating the shapes. The columns were a wavy arrow that I rasterized and then erased the arrow head, after that I played with the texture in the blending options to try and make the columns look like gold, silver, copper, and bronze DNA strands.

This is a staircase that I am touching up for a work in progress. The stairs themselves will be alternating between white and black marble, the window and the door are likely to change shape, but this is the rough background for now.

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