Waterdrop (Original Art by @ninaprdolina)

Creativity was always one of my strengths but unfortunately, sometimes I'm too lazy or preoccupied with doing everything but expressing myself artistically. Before some time I learned a bit of Photoshop and discovered how it is very easy and fast software for creating very cool art.

I always thought that African-American women are beautiful and that they look amazing on photography, in the modelling world and in arts. Their special features helped me this time to create this art. Hope you like it.

First I have seen this beautiful model in some Rihanna's commercials for lipgloss and then I've got an idea to create something.

Idea was to combine this photo, with some background, so I tried with waterdrop because it seemed cool.
I found this photo also on the internet.

Step by step process

1. Step - Background

Firstly, I took background photo and set it as background, logically. I removed little drop and its shadow from original photo with Spot Healing Brush Tool.

Then I added Hue/Saturation effect to get some crazy colours.

2. Step - Placing model

The second step was to remove a background from the model (making it transparent) and placing it like new layer on the background photo. Idea is to create a mask on the model layer so it can be brushed and formed in any shape it supposed to be.

To make this I also rotated, resized and brushed some forehead away from the model. So it can look like she is getting into the water. To make this correctly you must be familiar with Photoshop masks (which is nothing special and hard to learn).

3. Step - Mirroring

To make it look more realistic, I decided to put shadow. That I did with another layer of the same model. Idea is to create a mirror and decrease opacity. I didn't know how to mirror 1. layer so I did it step by step and made new layer looked like it was mirrored (but it's actually not the same and real mirror effect). I also used Liquify effect and brushed mask so it can look more realistic.

4. Step - Channels

I wasn't satisfied with colour so I changed channels and completely turned of red colour in the picture.
And now it looked like this.

5. Step - Finish

Finishing step was to reverse image for 180* because it looked better to me. And also adding some Maze effect.

I hope you all enjoy it :) @ninaprdolina

Images source:
http://awk-studio.com/les-dents-du-bonheur/
http://averadigital.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=42