60 hours in 5 days

[Jebus]

Okay, so my final project for my raster graphics class was to do an entire image in photoshop, 100%. Not one thing could have been copied, traced, or just plan stolen lol. Everything had to have a self shot reference, I used my two roommates if you're curious. And from there on every pixel had to be drawn in photoshop. Faces, shadows, lights, everything.

Worst part was I only had 5 days to think of something, shoot my references, and actually draw it. I decided, oddly since I'm not an animator, to do a boxing match. It took about 75 total hours to do, 60 hours to render it. Not exactly my best work, I've only slept twice this week, so basically I put most of the detail into the two boxers (hinting more to the left boxer). The crowd was all created at about 3AM on day five, so please excuse the crappyness.

Any critics are most welcome, I've already sent it out for matting so I don't mind taking any. I'm really not good with humans (they aren't supposed to be photo realistic, as was the original intent), I actually specialize in architecture and eniviromental rendering (homes, abstract homes like castles, fields, mountains, ect). I thought, five days, mine as well try something different since I spent about 100 hours on a previous castle.

http://forumsigns.homestead.com/files/finaproject211.jpg

Please excuse the huge watermark, I've had friends get their work stolen, and someone tried to pass one of my rendered homes as theirs last year. The actually print is 11x17, so a lot of detail has been lost...any comments would be most helpful.

[AbnormalBob]

How many layers is that??

It's really cool, except I don't particularly like the mouth guard and the star tattoo, they just seem....there, rather than integrated.

Other than that I think it's REALLY cool.

BTW, what happened when that person tried to pass off your stuff as their own? Was it in your class? PWNT!

[Jebus]

Originally posted by AbnormalBob@Apr 29 2005, 04:32 PM
How many layers is that??
Probably a little over 150

[kuju]

generally, it's very cool, though not to my taste, but who cares about that?

I do agree about the mouth guard though. the brightness of the yellow draws my attention away frm the picture as a whole.

[Empty]

I suggest duplicating the image, then on the duplicated image, merge the 2 sets of boxers into a single layer. Then duplicate those layers on top then set their mode to colour burn or dodge. It should provide for alot more contrast.

Play with the lighting.

I've never seen anyone do ANYTHING like that in Photoshop, thats crazy. I'dd cheat and just CG the whole damn thing. Your way more honest then me.

BTW: were you allowed custom brushes?

[Jebus]

The color burn helped the boxers a lot, if you bumped down the opacity a bunch. That would have probably helped before turning it in lol.

The mouthpieces could have contrasted a little better. But again, time constraints prevented any fine tuning. The entire background was pure paint on the go, any errors weren't fixed. I actually plan on spending another 20 or so hours on it over the course of the next two/three months just cleaning it up.


Edit: Yes and no to the custom brushes question. You could, but nothing over the top. I used one for the blood though, I just couldn't get the shapes right.

[Barefoot Matt]

Very cool. I've almost exclusively just done photomanips in PS... I think I've only tried actually drawing in it like once. I'm always amazed by how much the program has to offer that I've never even considered, much less used.

What kind of wacom tablet?