In this tutorial, I will show you the process of creating this abstract style, underworld demon lord in Photoshop. We will use a variety of custom brushes and textures to manipulate a model’s image. You will be doing lots of painting and image adjustments along the way. Have a try!
Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)
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OK Let’s get started!
To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:
Model by Null-Entity
Step 1
Create a document sized 1500px * 1500px with white background. Use the grunge brushset and paint some blacks over the canvas. Be creative with your brushes, use a mixture of them and don’t just stick to one brush:
Keep painting, this time we use a white grunge brush to paint over the black colour:
Step 2
We will add the model’s image onto our document. Select the facial area and copy + paste it onto our canvas, re-size it to fit our canvas size:
Use the grunge brushset as eraser, remove the edges off the face layer:
Add the following adjustment layers as clipping masks to the face layer:
Then, load the metal texture into Photoshop, and select a portion as shown below:
Copy and paste the selection over to our document and cover the face area. Make sure you place this layer above the previous 3 adjustment layer. Then set it as clipping mask to the layer below, and change its blending mode to “Color Burn”:
and here is the effect so far with the metal texture applied to the model’s face:
Step 3
We will do some further painting around the face. Create a new layer and again use the grunge brushset to paint some white colour gaps (you may need to use the free transform tool to rotate and resize your paintings):
Use the dirt brush to paint some particles around the face, use the eraser tool to remove any extra dirt:
Use the splatter brushset (small brush tip) to paint some drippings from the eye and month area:
Step 4
We will add some “floating humans” around the canvas. Download the human vector graphics and open it in Illustrator, then export it into a JPEG file. If you don’t have Illustrator, simply download the image below:
Select the following portion from the image:
Copy and paste the selection to our document, apply the following Hue/Saturation adjustment for this layer:
Re-size this human layer into a smaller scale, rotate it slightly as well:
Duplicate this layer a few times, scatter them around the canvas as shown below:
Step 5
We will add some red glows to the eye. Use a small soft brush with red colour:
Paint it over the eye area:
Then switch the brush colour to white, and use a smaller brush to paint a dot at the centre of the red:
and here is the effect so far:
Step 6
We’re almost done! I further added the following Selective Color adjustment layer on top:
and here is my final effect: (click to enlarge)
That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful. Till next time, have a great day!