20 PROFESSIONAL TIPS FOR PHOTOBASHING TECHNIQUES
- USE STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY
FREELANCE CONCEPT ARTIST SEBASTIEN HUE BREAKS DOWN ONE OF HIS AMAZING PHOTOBASH
CREATIONS, SHOWING HOW STOCK IMAGERY IS MANIPULATED INTO A COMPLETE ARTWORK
01
USE YOUR IMAGINATION
Imagination is very
important in photobashing,
because you need to see beyond
just pieces of stock. In this case, I
just took a photo of a car motor
as a start for the head of my
robot concept. Then I developed
the rest of the face with other
elements that would help the
design of the character.02
BLEND AND
BE ACCURATE
In greyscale, I tried to blend the
elements together through colour
corrections or [digital] painting to
create something coherent and
consistent. I tried to have a head
that looks like a head and so
anatomical notions are key points
as well when tackling characters,
even for robots.03
BUILD THE CONCEPT
Here I developed the
concept further by texturing the
materials of the robot through
metal and rust textures. The light
source is very important when
selecting your stocks, so I fleshed
out my concept keeping that in
mind, paying attention to which
stocks I picked to avoid incoherent
reflections and heavy corrections. © SHUE-DIGITALBeforeAfter- PICK THE PERFECT PHOTOS
Finding the right images for your photobash work is
really important, as Tony Andreas Rudolph explains: “I
select the images [based on the] perspective and light
direction that I need for my concept. When I want to
print the final result, or when it will be used for a more
detailed view, sharpness and noise inside the images
are very important. Colours are not so important...
However, as well as finding the right images, you also
need to be careful where you are sourcing the images
from and how they will be used. “I am always looking
for my resources really carefully, as well as using my
own images. I mostly look for images in the
DeviantArt Stock Image section and on Flickr with the
Advanced Search set to find only images where it is
allowed to use them for commercial work and where
I am able to edit them.”