Crafting (Part 2)

So, from my last post, you know that I've coloured the hands, shirt and ipad. 

Next, using my favourite magnetic lasso tool again, I made the selection and coloured Vendetta's hair. I chose brown because it signifies that this person was just like any other ordinary person. I also try to make the hands look better. 

Now, going into the fine details of colouring Vendetta's face, I zoomed in and chose the right brush opacity, hardness and flow in order to make the correct face impact.

Here's after I finished colouring the face and giving details like nose, moustache, eyebrows.

So the next part, I used this picture (link) as a reference to colour and draw my cup because in my sketch, I felt like the cup lack some elements of depth and perspective. So I open the image I found in photoshop as a layer in the same document, then, creating a another layer to paint the cup and also the shadow.

The cup was really difficult to colour! Spent a lot of times adjusting the brush settings to get the result that I want. The next part, I started to colour the table, as seen in the screenshot above.

After that, I fixed the shadow. Earlier, the shadow was too dark, it look like spilled coffee to me. Haha. I also added a white background layer at this point. After looking at my colouring, I decided to change Vendetta's hair colour to purple. Initially, I felt like portraying this person as ordinary so I used brown but I feel more happy when I coloured the hair to purple. Why purple? Because I feel that this person, craves for attention and he or she daring enough to do things differently.

Now, I coloured the Instagram, Facebook and Twitter logo. I used the images I found online (here, here and here) as reference to select the correct colour. I did this by pasting the images in the same document as layers, then using the eyedropper tool, I picked the right colour.

Next, I added the 'smoke effect' from the cup using brush once again and also smudge tool. I also painted a chair this time. As you can see from the screenshot above, I also painted a lightbulb on the ipad (behind Vendetta's head). This is to show the reflection from the light above and behind this person.

I don't know what struck me but suddenly I feel like colouring green for the background (wall). :/ Don't seem right though. But notice I made some adjustments on the shirt. I repainted it.

Unsatisfied with the chair and background, I deleted the chair layer and created a new layer to re-colour a new chair, with a different style. I also deleted the green background layer.

In order to create the 'reflection', first, I changed the blending options for the background in the ipad. I changed the blend mode to 'difference' and fill opacity to 94 percent.

Next, I created a new layer (Layer 21 - I didn't name this layer), used polygonal lasso tool and used a brush to colour it black on top of the ipad.

I adjusted the master opacity of Layer 21 to 83 percent, so that it it looks more like a reflection. 

In order to make things even more realistic, I tried to add rays of light reflection on the ipad with 50 percent opacity.

I added 'i'm watching' using the text tool with 'chalkduster' font set with 15 percent opacity to add more impact to the artwork. I've decided to leave the background wall to be white colour.

And it's finished! 

References: 

Cup - http://img.ehowcdn.com/article-new/ehow/images/a02/3l/ct/do-cup-through-table-magic-800x800.jpg 

Facebook - http://jonbennallick.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Facebook-logo-ICON-02.png

Instagram - http://www.opensecrets.org/news/instagram-logo-icon.jpg

Twitter - http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/design/2012/6/new_twitter_logo.jpg