Sources all sorted now.
Thanks to the stockers:
Marcus Ranum, DracoStock, MagikStock and Marchetooo Stock of DeviantArt
Half synthetic, half human warrior...
This is the very first time I have every really tried to do a human surreal type manipulation. I usually make abstracts and such.
Made with 2 stock photos
heart by hakze
and the second
(man) untitled photo by butter
The circuitry is drawn, ALL THE ARMOR is made from the spokes image. Different overlays and the eraser are used a ton to blend.
Looking at rocks, inevitably I thought of age, from age to fossil, from fossil to dinosaur, to skeleton, back to fossil and back to rock (if any of that makes sense).
Using the supplied image I warped the biggest stone to more of an egg-like shape and used other smaller elements of the picture to create a base for it. Combining an image of dried earth warped with the liquefy tool to map the stones shape i tried to replicate the stone cracking. I also incorporated a less than scary image of a Godzilla statue and cropped and modified pieces of it emerging from the fossil in shade to appear more menacing.
Images of the night watchman (from Casablanca) and various background images were cropped to encircle the lone figure with a torch. Lighting and lens flare tools helped imitate the torches spotlight.
I probably went a bit off topic from peaceful pebbles along the shore haha
cheers guys
*Note: All photos used are sourced online using the 'creative commons' filter; all are licensed to be modified, adapted or built upon.
On this piece of work,
I play aound on the original pict,
and no other source,
hope u like it =D