The Sacred Mountain details

The Sacred Mountain details


Here are some details of my last work "The Sacred Mountain", also you can view a bigger version of the illustration clicking here

I hope you enjoy it :
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The Sacred Mountain

The Sacred Mountain


"Nobody remember who sculpted the huge face in the rock, the leyend says that she is older than the human race, that she is a goddess, a spirit of nature.

Every sunrise, the monastery bell rings, and she seems to be awaking."


I´ve tried to do an environment on this one, playing more with values, lighting and atmosphere. I hope you like it guys :)

Done in Photoshop CS3 with a Wacom Intuos4, I´ve used a paper texture and some custom brushes.

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"Nadie recuerda quién esculpió la enorme cara en la roca, la leyenda dice que es más antigua que el Hombre, que es una Diosa, un espíritu de la naturaleza.

Cada amanecer, la campana del monasterio suena, y ella parece estar despertando."

En este trabajo he intentado crear un entorno, jugando más con los valores tonales, la iluminación y la atmósfera. Espero que os guste :)

Realizado en Photoshop CS3 con una Wacom Intuos4, he usado una textura de papel y varios pinceles customizados.

Here is the process / Aquí está el proceso:

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Bird Soul Tutorial

Bird Soul Tutorial 


Hi guys,
I´m going to explain how I did my last work step by step, I´ve post the main references that I used, some interesting links that may help you and a custom brush by myself. My apologies for my poor english, I´m still studying to improve it :)

Well, at first at all I had the idea of a soul-liberating character and I was thinking about this concept until the image is formed in my head, then I made a little and fast rough sketch, I looked for documentation in Internet and I saw a lot of images of Venetian Carnival masks, birds (live and dead), skull´s birds, North American Indians and some Inuit women, after that, my imagination started work at full speed. I took a photo of myself to reference of the pose, especially of the hands. When I had all things that I needed, I started working in photoshop.

Here are the main references that I used:
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In my two last works I did a brushstrokes background and I added a texture before start to work on the character. I used a custom brush by myself that looks like an acrylic brushstroke and a texture of a special paper, I put two layers of texture in "linear burn" mode with diferent opacity and erased some parts to achive a good effect. You can download my brush here

Here is the texture that I used in my two last works:

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I usually don´t used the pencil sketch in my digital work, only use it as a fast way to put my ideas on paper and then I sketching again digitaly but at this time I scaned it and used it as reference because I liked the proportions and some shapes on it, anyway, I did a lot of changes in the process of color sketching and painting.

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After doing a basic background I started to paint the character, I did a basic color scheme at first, then I started to working in the volume. I used the same brush to paint the feathers and others details but the skin and the bird skull was done with a custom brush by Charlie Bowater, you can find this brush in her deviant journal clicking here.

To design the little bird souls I used as reference a sketch that I did some years ago in which some birds flying away from a head, I like those birds very much. I used some layer effects to create the sense of moving and added some splash with a custom brush by Yang Xueguo called "snow", you can download his "good brush set" here.

Here is my old sketch that I used as reference to design the birds:

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When I finished the birds I worked on the final details on the background, dress and hair, again I used a custom brush by Yang Xueguo to make the dark leaves on the background.

To finish the illustration definitely I did some color settings and made a frame with rounded edges.

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I hope you´ve enjoyed the tutorial and it helps you, if you have any questions don´t hesitate to ask me.

Thanks for visiting :)
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