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I
went to an exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago yesterday
on treasures from the Forbidden City, which included a number
of ceramics that were made to imitate natural and man-made
forms. One brush holder that caught my eye was made to look
like bamboo, and it inspired me to try to make a bamboo
thicket of my own for the cobra.
All the bamboo stalks are derived from a single initial
stalk: I began with a long vertical rectangle and filled
it with a yellowish color, then used the burn tool to add
shading on the sides and the dodge tool to lighten up the
middle of the 'stalk'. On a separate layer, I drew a joint
(squiggle) in brown, duplicated it spaced out over the length
of the stalk and then applied an emboss layer style. With
the basic structure of the stalk in place, I then lengthened
and narrowed the stalk with the transform tool. From there,
I made multiple copies of the stalk and rotated each slightly
and to different degrees and directions, combined them into
a single layer, duplicated that and flipped it horizontally.
The final 'thicket' consists of several layers of these
grouped stalks, with the color of the layers being darkened
the further 'back' they were in the picture. A couple of
individual stalks were added to provide a little further
irregularity and drop shadows added.
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