go to my new site.

http://www.justincoombsart.com/home/paintings.html

it is cool (a few of the buttons dont work yet...)

so this is the culminatino of 20 or so solid hours of photoshopping goodness. The file itself at full res is about a gigabyte. Basically the process it simple. Come up with an idea for an item to put in. Make the shape. Give the shape depth. Give the shape texture (using google image and mayangtextures.com) then rotate it. add highlights with the airbrush.

repeat for every item.

its fun- and i get quicker at it every time. There are also some pretty advanced things to know- in regards to where each layer needs to go. Sometimes you need to fool photoshop into thinking that some things are below others.

This means that if you want to go back and change everything it is really hard. but yeah- the effect is nice.