I was working on a logo for myself and I really liked the pose of a pic I took. Problem one was the pics was not all the way in focus. I decided to go more illustrative with the icon part of my logo. I employed photoshop for the task and used layers. Im still tweakin the illustration but here is a layer by layer process on what I did.
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Layer 1 The original photo buts its faded out and Ive erased parts I dont want.
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Layer 2 White layer (the gray background is so you guys can see it). This part helps brighten the white areas and smooth themn out a bit.
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Layer 3 Solid black illustration. I basically drew this on top of the original pic and cut out all the white areas.
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Layer 4 White highlights just to bring out small details in the scales etc...
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Layer 5 Black outline just to make it look more illustrative.
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Layer 6 The eye was a few layers itself to make. I have a colorless eye as well so Imnot sure what I want yet.
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Layer 1 thru 6 The semi-final illustration with all layers put together. Im still messing with it but its 98% done.
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