A little fantasy fun

Serrator

Hey guys,

I wanted to try and create a fantasy style image, so with the current Spartan movie out I decided to try my hand at recreating a Spartan. I had my son pose for me and then created everything manually. Since this is my first let me know the good/bad.

Spartson:

updated version (softened the foreground smoke and gradient masked it out slightly, also darkened BG a bit):


original:


updated version (softened the foreground smoke and gradient masked it out slightly, also darkened BG a bit):

photographix

way cool !
good job i like the smoke in the back

David_S85

Super job with the image. The fog/smoke I think needs a little more blur.

ShepsMom

This is an amazing work. Very nicely done. thumb

Skippy

Serrator wrote:

Hey guys,

I wanted to try and create a fantasy style image, so with the current Spartan movie out I decided to try my hand at recreating a Spartan. I had my son pose for me and then created everything manually. Since this is my first let me know the good/bad.

Spartson:

original:

Ohhhhh Wow, he is very Spartanish indeed my gosh yes
You are a very talented Artist Serrator
Excellent job at turning your photo into something completely different
I say it again WOW :jawdrop ...... Skippy
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Serrator

Thanks guys for the look and your comments!!

David...I agree, the smoke looked too rough. I smoothed it out and faded it out more. Thanks for the suggestion.

JillG

And another wow from me. Great job. What does the A stand for?

Jill

Serrator

Thanks Jill!

The "A" can stand for several things, Athens or Athenians but for me I tried to replicate the symbol that I saw on one of the shields from some pics I have seen of them. Although the symbol I saw was actually not the "A" but very similar "lamda" or "l" character...I was too lazy to clone out the horizontal line in the "A" symbol. So the final answer is that it is the "l" which my son's first letter in his name, Lance.

wxwax

Fascinating and very skillful. Thanks for showing us your experimentation.

Awais Yaqub

This Wow wonderful great work

Serrator

Appreciate you guys checking out my messing around with PS and your kind comments.

Serrator

Here is the final manipulation effort. I added some body armor and textures. Now to go get it printed for my son's room...

tlee

Awesome work!