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The belly was finished off and blended into the body by brushing some of the darker body colors over the edges at low opacity with a soft brush. A shadow was added on the lower area to enhance the roundness and help the blend. A shadowed white piping was rendered in by brush on the upper edge of the bathing suit with some color picked from other shadowed areas of piping. A shadow was also added under the left breast.
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The forward leg is perfect for simply resizing/distorting. Isolate the leg on it’s own layer and use the distort tool to shape it to make it look fat. It’s the best way to enlarge a body part when possible. It retains all of it’s textural characteristics unless the distort is extreme. Unfortunately this works well only in areas where the entire selection is to be affected. A slight trim was made on the leg where it touches the chair edge.
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The next step is working on her back to further the fat illusion. Again I duplicated and isolated a portion of the back as in the left image and using the liquefy tool used the same technique of carefully “pulling” the outer edges of the back to create some bulging around the suit back, some on the bra strap and a bit near the waist area. I also used the liquefy tool to enlarge her other leg, mostly on the underside.
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