Design a One-Winged Fallen Angel Scene in Photoshop

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To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Model

Ground (Rock)

Wing

Fire

Step 1

Create a new document sized 800px * 1030px with black background. As usual we will start preparing the ground texture. Load the rock texture into Photoshop and select a piece as shown below:

Erase the edges and perspective this as shown below for some depth:

Add the following 2 adjustment layers on top of this ground layer:

Black and White

Levels

Create a new layer on top and use a hard black brush to paint some pattern on the ground, and this creates a uneven surface for the ground:

Use a red brush to paint some fiery texture on the ground as well:

Then, use a cloud brush (set brush opacity and flow to around 40%) and paint some cloud texture above the ground. You can also use the Warp Tool to warp the cloud so it forms a curvy shape:

Step 2

We will add some stone background texture as well. So grab a piece from the stone texture and paste it onto our document as shown below:

Erase the the centre and the edge portion of the texture with a soft eraser:

Add the following 3 adjustment layers as clipping mask to this texture:

Black and White

Levels

Curves

and here is the effect so far:

Step 3

Load the model image into Photoshop and cut out the model, paste it onto the centre of the canvas as shown below:

Add the following 3 adjustment layers as clipping mask to this model layer:

Black and White

Erase the following portion on the black and White adjustment layer mask to add some colour variation:

Levels

Curves

and here is the effect so far:

Step 4

We will add some rock texture over the model just to made the scene a bit more surreal. Copy and paste a piece of the stone texture over the model, and set it as a clipping mask layer to the model layer (put this one above the previous adjusment layers for the model):

Change the blending mode of this layer to “Overlay”:

Load the wing image into Photoshp and cut out the wing, paste it onto our document and attach it to the back of the model as shown below:

Use a soft eraser to fade the edges of the wing to add some depth:

Add the following 2 adjustment layers to this wing layers:

Black and White

Levels

and here is the effect so far:

Step 5

We will add some fire texture onto the image, select the fire portion from the fire image we downloaded earlier:

Copy and paste this fire onto our document, duplicate it a few times. Resize and attach them to various parts of the model and wing as shown below:

Hint: Experiement with different blending mode (overlay, screen, color dodge) and see what effect they bring to the image.

Now we can go back to the fire image and select a few pieces with the quick selection tool as shown below:

Copy and paste the selection onto our document, use the liquify filter to turn them into little strips as shown below:

Duplicate this layer a few times and move them around document, as shown below:

Step 6

We will add some lighting effect to the image. Flatten the image and duplicate the background layer, apply the following Motion Blur setting to this duplicated layer:

Add the following layer mask to this motion blur layer:

and you will have the following effect:

Finally  I adjusted the colour a bit with the colour balance adjustment layer and here is my final effect: (click to enlarge)

That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful! Drop me a comment below if you have any question.

Till next time, have a great day!