Textures in my final

The original pictures I used in my Final

I liked how they I ended up fitting them. The cat was the one that didnt quite come out as expressive in my final piece as she was in the original picture. She's like the neighbor's or something but I feed her sometimes and so she always busts in the back door when I open it so one day on a project break I opened the door to go outside and she busted in. I grabbed my camera and a piece of ham and went out to the porch to take some shots of her and while i was reviewing them I seen the picture and how she looked mad as shit about me photographing her when after all she was a single mother trying to get by on minimum wage or something like that. The hands I reconstructed with with copy and paste and paint. What I really like about my final project is although I have a whole bunch of junk cobbled in there it's not too cluttered theres some open space and everything is toned down into place.

My Final Project

This is what I ended up with my final project and I took charlies suggestions in editing a few things in and out and I'm pretty happy with it.

Progress Before Bed

I got some great tool shots at work and heres roughly how i want them but i do have to reposition a few of them and i might lose the table clamo and the coat rack but honestly i love the little peek of the bottom of it through the table and the blood. i was playing around with thinning the blood using a layer mask but will thicken it up a little bit more i also smoothed out the pool itself and cleaned up some layers tonight and a few other details but heres where I am going to bed. I keep flip flopping on the exact texture i want to use for the floor and walls but i have several i am deciding on choosing from but figure all of that out between now and wednesday when it comes time to print. All in all im happy with my progress so far though, I'm happy with my theme and it's something I'm really eager to nail. I'm going to bed comfortable with my project.

Minute Details

Spent all morning on small little errors in such around the gates next will be the blood probably i want to thin that out a slight bit and add somemore glow... I also added a cat drinking the blood. It's an alley cat who basically lives under/on the porch so she's back home. I kind of just have her there looking the way she was when i took the pic. I may consider wrapping her tail around her and also using liquify to see if i can enhance her expression and might use a lighter red so you can really see her blood goatee. Also if you look close she has blood stained whiskers. I redrew her whiskers on the left and they have that hyper realistic look i actually kind of love. I'm getting ready to leave home now so I wont be able to work on this again until tomorrow night. Here is where I stopped today.

Last nights progress... I got people close to how I want them

I like the abstract way the people look in here. I cut down on alot of the dust and added more highlights still got more work to do but its coming along nicely. I still want to add more tools for the table.

Working on it still

I've gotten a few more things the way I want them here the lighting I have the way I want. I Still have to do a bunch of highlights all around and Im going to try to put some hands on the bars...