JUNGLE: Poster Image Process

The conceot behind my album poster was to make it look as though the album was laying in an urban setting with the shadows of a canopy over top, and a snake out of view

 I started with a few effects on the album cover itself, first I applied a gradient, so that it wouldn't look so flat, I then applied a drop shadow so that it would look like an object.

 I drew out some leaves of a canopy roughly, and applied a Gaussian blur

 Here i started on the snake with a base of white

 I then added some pattern

 The lines are for perspective refference

 Here i started drawing out the scales, i then realised that this was tedious and wouldn't look very effective, so i tried something else

 I took an image of a grid

 warped it

and used that to create a selection of black within the grid

 I used the refine edge tool to round out the harsh squares

 I then used bevel and emboss tools, and applied the patter as an overlay over the base snake colours

 Ithen began to add some shading using pure black and white, and Gaussian blur

 Further detailing

 The snake didn't look very lusterous, so i added lots of white specks and blurred them to add a little bit more shine around the edge and along the spine of the snake, I also added a photograph that i took for the background image

 Final adjustments, such as hue and saturation, aswell as a dark Vignette