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Published: 2011-04-04 20:28:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 1975; Favourites: 35; Downloads: 137
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Description When I stumbled upon this stock [link] from I know I have to make something out of it. So I went ahead and created afterlife. It turned out a lot different than what I had in mind, but I like it just as much. Hope you like it too!

The reason it is called "afterlife" is because I was listening to the soundtrack from Mass Effect 2 when your character goes in the afterlife club in Omega. I put it on loop and it pretty much guided me through the whole creation. Art and music goes hand in hand.

Tech Brushes [link] by

Infinity Brush Set [link] by

Z-design Tech brushes set v2 [link] and Z-DESIGN Tech Brushes Set v5 by

Light Streaks by Barton Damer. They could be found from this tut [link]

Stock used:
Headphones 3 [link] by

stock.xchng [link]
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Comments: 17

Heartbroken91209 [2011-05-23 17:40:03 +0000 UTC]

can i ask how did you blend brushes with the skin colour? did you use normal photoshop blending options??

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zenvnez In reply to Heartbroken91209 [2011-05-24 03:56:02 +0000 UTC]

I didn't blend the brushes with the skin, I used masking to do the effect. I masked the whole face, then revealed it back with custom brushes. Does that answer your question?

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Heartbroken91209 In reply to zenvnez [2011-05-24 12:39:25 +0000 UTC]

thanks...

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zenvnez In reply to Heartbroken91209 [2011-05-24 16:49:34 +0000 UTC]

Yea, I'm not sure if that's the best way to do the effect, but that's how I did it. Feel free to ask if you have further questions.

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Heartbroken91209 In reply to zenvnez [2011-05-26 17:25:28 +0000 UTC]

haha im not that good with photoshop ^ ^ im just good with illustrator im trying to learn photoshop and i dont know much like you so i was just asking .. actually i had to make my portfolio so i wanted to add these effects on the cover with my picture but i think its still too difficult for me so i think i will use illustrator instead and design something else ... thanks for telling me.

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FiendOFDA [2011-04-05 20:36:40 +0000 UTC]

freaking awesome

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zenvnez In reply to FiendOFDA [2011-04-05 21:02:49 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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FiendOFDA In reply to zenvnez [2011-04-05 21:33:42 +0000 UTC]

your welcome

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Mister-Useless [2011-04-05 20:21:10 +0000 UTC]

Man ! I love it so much that I'm using it as my wallpaper ^^
Again, nice art ^^

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zenvnez In reply to Mister-Useless [2011-04-05 20:29:24 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you like it, it's my current wallpaper too. Cheers

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Mister-Useless [2011-04-05 20:18:37 +0000 UTC]

Nice art
It some how reminds me of Ergo Proxy (don't know why, though)

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hunajakoiso [2011-04-05 20:07:07 +0000 UTC]

some very neat effects here.

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zenvnez In reply to hunajakoiso [2011-04-05 20:39:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the kind words. Some of the effects were really happy accidents

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hunajakoiso In reply to zenvnez [2011-04-05 20:46:12 +0000 UTC]

heh. sometimes art feels more like alchemy, experimenting with stuff without a clear end result. always fun.

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kgifted91 [2011-04-05 04:44:47 +0000 UTC]

This looks really cool I like it a lot very well done art and music does go hand in hand and mass effect is awesome

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zenvnez In reply to kgifted91 [2011-04-05 05:14:52 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! Can't wait for ME3

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kgifted91 In reply to zenvnez [2011-04-05 05:16:33 +0000 UTC]

Me too

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