PIC: Heat (Pippin) -NWS, pubes on show
This pic has been a bit of a marathon. I started it as a standard weekly challenge, but somehow it ended up being more challenging than most. It’s taken six months to finish - what with working on it and taking a break from it when I got stuck or frustrated and working on it some more. It’s been too complicated to explain how complicated it was … if that makes sense. To give you a hint the final image had over 20 layers … and that did not include any of the separate layers involved in building up the background! I have 35 different versions of it saved as full PSDs or PNGs, each representing a significant step in the process. I wasn’t just being a masochist - each element seemed just so right that I just HAD to do the work.
I’ve included a collage of the base images I used to let you see how much I’ve had to do. As you can see the background had very little floor and was also missing parts of barrels, wall etc … and all of this had to be added. The jeans and belt had to be totally reconstructed as hobbit clothing. The feet needed resizing, and repositioning to match the angles of the knees, plus some considerable fiddling of the somewhat dodgy anatomy (these were NOT movie stills, but taken from a costume site). All this as well as the usual problems of matching lighting, colour, and texture. Then it became obvious he needed to be hot and sweaty, to explain the nearly naked pose - so I’ve had to add the sheen of sweat plus a few droplets and runnels as well.
So here he is - putting the lie to Merry’s claim he’s never done a hard day’s work. Pippin’s been toiling in the barn and he’s stopped for a breather, slipped off his shirt, undone his belt and lowered his trousers to get just that bit cooler. The drowsiness of the hot, dusty barn and the weariness of his body have sent him into a day dream of the past - he’s far, far away. The wistful, almost sad smile and look in his eyes hints at where he is, and who he’s with.
There is a larger version available. email me at jayay58@yahoo.co.uk if you’d like the full size version, or if you’d like to be added to my mailing list who always get the larger versions.
Warning - partial nudity, pubic hairs on display
I’ve included a collage of the base images I used to let you see how much I’ve had to do. As you can see the background had very little floor and was also missing parts of barrels, wall etc … and all of this had to be added. The jeans and belt had to be totally reconstructed as hobbit clothing. The feet needed resizing, and repositioning to match the angles of the knees, plus some considerable fiddling of the somewhat dodgy anatomy (these were NOT movie stills, but taken from a costume site). All this as well as the usual problems of matching lighting, colour, and texture. Then it became obvious he needed to be hot and sweaty, to explain the nearly naked pose - so I’ve had to add the sheen of sweat plus a few droplets and runnels as well.
So here he is - putting the lie to Merry’s claim he’s never done a hard day’s work. Pippin’s been toiling in the barn and he’s stopped for a breather, slipped off his shirt, undone his belt and lowered his trousers to get just that bit cooler. The drowsiness of the hot, dusty barn and the weariness of his body have sent him into a day dream of the past - he’s far, far away. The wistful, almost sad smile and look in his eyes hints at where he is, and who he’s with.
There is a larger version available. email me at jayay58@yahoo.co.uk if you’d like the full size version, or if you’d like to be added to my mailing list who always get the larger versions.
Warning - partial nudity, pubic hairs on display