My matte painting

Here is my matte painting that I made from several different pictures. This invovled using many different selection tools, custom brushes, and layer styles.

matte painting part2

meteor city part 1

 Here I have my first part of my matte painting. With the city back ground in place I started with the smoke trails that lead to the buildings. By doing that I used a custom made brush called to get a good smoke texture and used shades of light blue and grey to get the color. There is also a piece of the top building falling apart from a meteor hit. I added some depth to the building piece by painting in some black. Last thing I did was add debris falling from the building to add a realistic effect of impact from the meteor hitting the building.

blending pratice

Here I praticed blending colors by using the paint brush in Photoshop. The objects on the left are images i had to duplicate. I found the retangle shape easier to do because of the direction of the the brush, but to help myself for the circle I used guides and rulers to isolate sections and build from there. To help me pick the colors I wanted I used the eye dropper to pick out most of the colors. Lowering the softness of the brush and also the flow were some techniques i used to better my brush. By taking some time I think I matched the colors well and in the end came out pretty good.

my sand textured brush

this is a texture i had to create by making a custom brush. This was originally a picture of desert landscape. i used a refined selection tool to pick out a little piece i wanted.