Avatar works

nomeradona

My daughters kept on buggin me to translate their pics into avatar character...

so they were successful..

Lissa

Lanie

solo

Brilliant Nomer...

Can you give me an idea as to how you did this?

Gaieus

Definitely cool!

(I have already seen your kids once in some picture somewhere I forget now - they are so beautiful!!! Happy father!)

nomeradona

thanks gai thanks solo..

my steps as follows:

using wacom is easier but with mouse its also ok.

using liquify bloat tool to make the eyes a bit bigger.
skin.. jsut use hue, saturation and move them to have the desire blue skin.
skin variation.. paint on new layer and use overlay blending mode and adjust opacity.
pattern on the skin. choose new layer and use lasso tool and just inscribe the desired shapes. then fill it with a much darker color, use overlay and adjust opacity.
white acnes. just use soft brush small diameter and start painting (white) on the new layer again and again adjust opacity.
eyes. select the black part with minimal feathering,then adjust hue saturation/lightness brightness. paint black and paint the specular highlight.
ears i just copied the orignal ones and pasted and use masking.
hair.. same as the ears but some hair i used other peoples braid hair too. byu googling of course.
background.. use avatar stuff also and applied some bluring.

once done.. i combined the images and then i use liquify again. forward warp tool to push nose, eyes to desired effect. also use the burn and dodge tool..