The Girl Who Cried Wolf by Katie Watersell
In this Photoshop tutorial we take a look at a piece by Katie Watersell called The Girl Who Cried Wolf. Bringing together a series of stock photos of wolves, along with two model images, Katie creates this incredible piece. By presenting the image in black and white, Katie can really emphasize the textures and lighting.
Final image:
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I am gobsmacked! What fantastic work.
wow, just stunning, beautifully done
Truly Inspiring, the black and white tones are perfect.
Thank you for the tutorial! Very inspiring! I couldn’t find the link to the wolf photographers’
work, would be nice to see his work…
Thanks for pointing that out. I just added the link.
Loved this work, beautiful, I would have liked a little more information on how the additional fir was added and if the hand painting was done on wolf layer or separate layer and what it looked like before adding. I love the result either way. Walt.
On this gorgeous image I was wondering what exactly overpainting is and how it is done, for instance, on the wolf’s fur? Is it just shading? adding cloned or copied areas? or actually using a special brush to draw freehand? Thank you 🙂
I contacted Katie about this question. Here is her answer:
About fur’s overpaint: when I added shadows with brush tool on the wolf’s body the fur become not quite visible, so I drew light on fur that is under shadow layer to make it more pop out …I didn’t use any other tools but brush and eraser (for additional adjustments I used curves, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation)…not sure I explain it in good way-_- its all was made in Photoshop, I found a good wolves photos so I just placed them in the poses I need (by cutting out and free transforming body parts, overpainting zones which is on the cut zone). I used standard sharp brush, nothing special. I’m using Wacom intuos tablet.
Thank you.
Unbelievable!