Wings and Freedom

Those are my thumbnails about "wings". When I saw this topic on Illustrator Friday, I came up with those ideas which relate to "freedom".




 "Wings" Thumbnails 

When I see wings or birds, those words always relate to freedom in my mind.



Here is my ideas came from:


   

Chukar Partridge - flight lab

This image is from the magazine - National Geographic.




Single wing of bird (Cock-of-the-rock)

Cock-of-the-rock is South American category's bird. This image also is from the magazine - National Geographic.


   
 
A bird in the cage

 I search this image online and it inspired me. When I saw this image, I came up an idea about bird cage.



Process in Photoshop:
 

 

First step to create my poster

I chose one of my thumbnails and placed it in to Photoshop. This thumbnail expresses a stronger concept toward the topic.


 

Start working on the bird and cage 

In this step, I downloaded a bird cage's image and used pen tool to make a new path for the bird cage. Also, I color it using black. Then, I deleted the original bird cage and used pen tool and layer mask to work on the bird. I used brush tool to create the black edge around the bird to make it more stand out.


 

Making feathers

 I used pan tool and layer mask to make the feathers in every single piece. Also, I used brush tool and layer effect to make the shadow under each row of feather.



The other side of wing

 In this step, I use pen tool to create the wing in the other side. I did not put a lot of details on it because it is behind the front wing. Also, I used brush tool to create a pick background for my poster.




Working on feathers 

In the last step, I created several feathers around it because I wanted to show that it's freedom is taking away.


 

Final poster 

This is my poster "Wings and Freedom". ^U^