A quick breakdown movie of how the image you find in this post has been made using Photoshop and Photoshop alone. I know, a lot of you fans out there might get disappointed by the fact that there is absolutely no 3D involved…
The painting techniques used here are common among analogue painters as well as many contemporary digital concept artist. One of those cools techniques is to take a random piece of photography and start fiddling around with it and painting over it in Photoshop until you brain starts recognizing patterns and images.