Watch

In this project Janee told us to plan our work and use gradients and iteration copying. Well my plan was start from center and to do the project so that I can all the time see my original one from the bottom layer. That will help for picking up colors and to add them exactly to the right place. I also plan to use gradients as much I can or a bottom color for the part I'm working. This work looks so difficult that I only plan to do it as far I can or even try it. I start painting from the center of the watch. First the hands and other details. Some important details I have paint nearly pixel by pixel and they were many. I choose one diamond which were middle light. That diamond I paint nearly pixel by pixel and then just copied with alt key and do some light and dark parts details to every diamond on the separate layer to give unique look to them.

The bottom ring of diamonds is made with filters and it's having gradient layer over it in overlay mode. Top layer of this group is for details. This work contains around 50 layers and 4 groups. If I explain this method shortly it goes like this:
1. A gradient, then took the eye off for the layer.
2. A new layer, painting details, then eye of for the layer.
3. A new layer, painting more details. Merged down the detail layer's. eye off the layer.....

In this project I didn't use blur tool nearly at all, but a lot of Janee's shading brush with different opacities.

Here' s the original one.

Notepad

Here are some works I finished from last week.

18.01.2009 10:00