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here it is fan(girl) the very first poster/book cover for the Outcasts.

Using photos I already had on my hard drive, and a few random bits of clipart I trolled from Google images, I stared at a blank (transparent) background and a crap load of pictures before I kinda... blanked out and then realized I had about three dozen edits just waiting to be slapped together for a rough n' ready mock up...

No such luck, seems I ended up spending a good 12 whole hours (total) smoothing, shading, erasing, filling, adjusting and blending everything apart before I even started to layer and assemble the main picture...

and then the text and fonts and coloring?

I might have worn a good dozen layers of plastic off my mouse pad, and have had to clean my optical mouse at least twenty times.

this is NOT the best work Ive done, but it IS the most in-depth, (45 layers total, a personal record) and time/effort intensive that I've put together, likely ever in my short graphics working life.

Characters are, from L to R:

Violet Schultz, Face Claimed by Liv Tyler, OCC by K.B. Dennis AKA hinote-kun [link]

William Talbot, Face Claimed by Taylor Lautner OCC by C.K. McConnell aka E.S. Baker AKA ME

Grace Sanderson, Face Claimed by Elsa Hosk OCC by A. Alicea & C.K. McConnell

Marcus Jackson, Face Claimed by Isaiah Mustaffa OCC by C.K. McConnell aka E.S. Baker AKA ME

Keira Graystone, Face Claimed by Christina Ricci OCC by C.K. McConnell aka E.S. Baker AKA ME

The section of City Skyline used in the background is a great photograph of Dallas Texas, taken from stock photos on Google Images for various big city skylines, no photographer info was found.

All done in Adobe Photo Shop CS2

Description
here it is fan(girl) the very first poster/book cover for the Outcasts.

Using photos I already had on my hard drive, and a few random bits of clipart I trolled from Google images, I stared at a blank (transparent) background and a crap load of pictures before I kinda... blanked out and then realized I had about three dozen edits just waiting to be slapped together for a rough n' ready mock up...

No such luck, seems I ended up spending a good 12 whole hours (total) smoothing, shading, erasing, filling, adjusting and blending everything apart before I even started to layer and assemble the main picture...

and then the text and fonts and coloring?

I might have worn a good dozen layers of plastic off my mouse pad, and have had to clean my optical mouse at least twenty times.

this is NOT the best work Ive done, but it IS the most in-depth, (45 layers total, a personal record) and time/effort intensive that I've put together, likely ever in my short graphics working life.

Characters are, from L to R:

Violet Schultz, Face Claimed by Liv Tyler, OCC by K.B. Dennis AKA hinote-kun [link]

William Talbot, Face Claimed by Taylor Lautner OCC by C.K. McConnell aka E.S. Baker AKA ME

Grace Sanderson, Face Claimed by Elsa Hosk OCC by A. Alicea & C.K. McConnell

Marcus Jackson, Face Claimed by Isaiah Mustaffa OCC by C.K. McConnell aka E.S. Baker AKA ME

Keira Graystone, Face Claimed by Christina Ricci OCC by C.K. McConnell aka E.S. Baker AKA ME

The section of City Skyline used in the background is a great photograph of Dallas Texas, taken from stock photos on Google Images for various big city skylines, no photographer info was found.

All done in Adobe Photo Shop CS2