Stretched skin

I’m doing a site for a tattoo artist and i need to make a large section of stretched out human skin. Needs to look like a tanning hide sort of stretched out and pined down. I’ve tried a couple ideas but nothing looks right.

Any ideas or tutorials that could help me?

hmm :-\

If I were you I’d hijack a pic on google of some skin… then go from there…

use the liquify tool maybe, I dunno :slight_smile:

Ya i decided to start looking for pictures of body suspension which is no treat. Some ppl do weird things to there bodys. I have found a couple pics that have the shapes i want so i’m going to try to blend them together to make the base.

I’m still open to any toehr suggestions.

That’s gonna be tricky dude…
I did this in Poser 4 pro in like 2 seconds …
Good luck, I will keep my eyes out for ya!
____jMkM:beam:

I have it all pieced together. Now i have to blend it and tone it into one nice piece.

http://www.sintax321.com/jody/skin.jpg

What u think so far.

it looks pretty sick just because I know it is skin…it looks good but it does not look like it is tense…like it is stretched to the point it is going to rip.

Ya i’ll be tweeking that when i blend and tone it. Adding more streatch lines and making it look tighter. ANy body know of soem good teniques to blend this?

I figure i’m gong to desaturate all of it then work form there. Get the levels matching then starte to blend it together.

Any suggestions or ideas are welcome.

Ok so i’m jsut about donw the blending and my next step will be coloring and toning the skin.

http://www.sintax321.com/jody/skinbw.jpg

i’m still tweeking to make it looked more streatched out every time.

hey that looks pretty good! the first one was just nasty though…gave me the chills. i think redViper knows some good skin colouring technics cause he has done some good face manips. if not then i would use the colour selection in PS and just pick a colour from one of the other ones.

ya it looks like a total mess hen u first put it together. NOw that it is blended it looks way better. I want to make sure i have it realy good before i color it.

Bah, too bad I just gave all my fathers leather to my uncle. He had some tanning hide that would have been perfect to scan in, but alas, I no longer have it. Sorry :frowning:

The black and white image looks good though, just need to add the color and stuff :slight_smile:

Ya i was trying to find pictures of tanning hide or stretched leather but couldnt’ find any. IT was easy to find the body suspension pics though and it should work our the way i want it.

Once the color an the nails are in it should looke really good.

Good job dude… That’s pretty d@m nas !!

ok here is the first round of coloring

http://www.sintax321.com/jody/skinc.jpg

so far so good?

::EDIT:: PS sorry about the copryright pattern. I jsut dont’ want to find some has taken this image an modifyed for there own use after al this work. Not that any kirupian would. You guys understand.

omgosh! that looks so good! whistles that is an amazing job! how did you go about colouring it?

That is pretty darn good there sintax… great work :thumb:

thanks guys. All i dd was hue/colorize it. Then i made some layers and blayed with soem blending options. I’m adding hte nails now.

hey sin your copyright pattern how did you do that? I have been trying to do the for quite sometime…The skin looks tight man

I just opend up a new PS file 100x100.
Then typed in my name and rotated a bit.
Then i croped down.
Leave the background transparnet and go Edit>Define Pattern. Then jsut make a new layer on the image u wnat it on.
Then go Edit>Fill and form "Use"select “pattern” then select “custom pattern”.

Your pattern should be in there and then u can overlay it or reduce the trasparancy.

Thanks for the compliments. Nails are just about in.

Thanks man…I must say man you have gotten progressively better with every piece of work you have been doing…The way you go at it you have a bright future in design. And I still have not forgot the work you have done for me…hint hint