SPIDER-DOO

Here are the two images I'm going to use to create "Spider-Doo" (Spiderman/Scooby-Doo). They are both high quality large pictures with similar angles and lighting so that should make it a bit easier and better looking in the end. I wanted to use different ones but the school has blocks on certain websites so I could not access them.

Final - Zhino

Here's my final version of the zhino. After shading a bit more I was able to get a desirable result. The shading really made him look a bit more bulky like a rhino is.
I had a little trouble with making the horns look like they were actually attached so I darkened on and around the base of them to give a more natural look in addition to changing the hue/saturation of them so that they were more black and white like the zebra rather than their original brown.
It could always be better, but I'm satisfied.

Zhino Update 2

 I've cropped the legs of the zebra so that they fit the size of the rhino. I didn't want to try to squish the legs upwards because the striping would look very unnatural. I used a feather to make the legs blend in with the rhino's feet.

After the body was finally fit I began to shade with a new layer mask. I used about 5% flow and 100% opacity a majority of the time. The main focus of shading will be to give a natural effect of bulkiness that a rhino has. Some more work on shading should make this zhino look like a much more realistic and believable creature.

Zhino Update

Today I worked on reworking the shape of the zebra to fit the rhino. The head took a long time to get right. I had to restart because it became too warped and the eye and ear didn't look right. Now it is looking better along with the legs as well.

Zhino (Zebra/Rhino)

 I cropped out the zebra using the polygonal lasso tool.

Now I am beginning to liquify the zebra to the shape of the rhino. I roughly warped it first so that I would not have to liquify it so much. I still have to do the legs and head/neck area as well as fixing up the shoulders because they don't look very natural as of now.

Final - Statue of Liberty (Lasso)

Today I finished up the statue of liberty project. It helped me to contrast it to a white background sometimes. I used the polygonal lasso tool the entire time.

Statue of Liberty (Lasso Tool)

I've just started on removing the sky today because I was working on the dog project for a while first. I'm making decent progress and will be done soon.

Today I learned there are
a few ways to remove pixels from an image (lasso, magic wand, etc.)