Bloody Tentacles Effect
Tutorial in Advanced, Drawing, Effects, Goodies
I will now show you how to create tentacles on a wall, splashed with blood. We will use a brush to draw the blood stains. In the tutorial, you will find a link where you will be able to download the brush from.
Open a new document (300×300px and transparent background).
To begin, download the wall texture by clicking this link.
Open the texture, copy it (Ctrl + C), and paste it into the new document (Ctrl + V).
Create a ((New Layer)).
With ((Rectangle Tool)), draw a black thick line as shown in the following image. Ctrl + Click the layer in order to activate the selection.
Create a ((New Layer)) and fill it in with white.
Don’t deselect yet.
Standing in the rectangle layer, apply ((Filter))-((Blur))-((Gaussean Blur)).
Now press Ctrl + E to unify the layers.
Press (Ctrl + T) to ((Free Transform)). Then right-click and a drop-down menu will appear. Choose the option ((Distort)). Drag the inferior sliders towards the center. Take a look at the image below.
Go to ((Filter))-((Distort))-((Shear)). Try to imitate the graphic that appears below.
After applying this filter, this will be the result.
Then ((Filter))-((Artistic))-((Plastic Wrap)). Use the values that appear below.
Double-click the layer, select ((Drop Shadow)) and apply the following values.
What you have to do right now is to duplicate the layer with the tentacles and apply a different variation of the ((Shear)) filter.
Here comes the funny part. Download this brush: brush. Install it and so the following.
Create a ((New Layer)).
Choose #a2171a as the front color.
Using the Brush with the blood stains, paint some stains on the tentacles (remember you need to pain in the new layer).
Change the layer style to ((Multiply)).
Finally, go to ((Image))-((Adjustments))-((Brightness/Contrast)).
Final result.
