Phoenix Design Contest Entry

these are my entries for Jerry Banfield's Phoenix Design Contest

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THE PROCESS

first, I sketched a lot of birds and picked the ones that I like.

after finalizing the design, I ink it on paper and scanned it.

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next, I'm going to separate the line drawing from the white background, but before that, I adjusted the LEVELS of the drawing by pressing CTRL+L.

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after that, I go to channels and CTRL+ click the RGB layer. this will make a selection on the line drawing.

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go back to the layers palette and add a new layer and fill it with black.

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now I have the line separated. I added a new layer under the line layer and fill it with white.

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next, I'm going to paint a flat color under the line drawing layer. I use the wand tool and I click anywhere outside the line drawing's layer (or the negative space) and it will create a selection. then I inverted the selection by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+I.

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and fill it with yellow.

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I added red and orange and little details

here, I changed the color of the outline to light yellow.

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usually, the Phoenix have a long tail feather so I go back to my drawing table and draw the half of the tail, scanned and paint it.

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here, I duplicate the right wing and tail, I flipped it and put it on the left side. I use the line to align and center the Phoenix.

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HERE'S THE FINISHED PRODUCT

Phoenix Design #1

version 1

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version 2

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version 3

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Phoenix Design #2

like the first Phoenix Design, I applied the same process here

version 1

version 2

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Phoenix Design #3

.....and that's it. thanks for stopping by.