Cloud Strife shirtless

A picture edited by me of Cloud Strife, shirtless and bleeding after the final battle with Sephiroth!

How it is done:
Done with Photoshop.
I attached Cloud's head to the body, then played around with the colour and orientation till it sort of fitted. I even had to crop out Cloud's facial skin to recolour it to retain the colour of his hair!

The cuts and wounds on his body are hand-drawn, using lasso, brush, burn and smudge tools. I had to follow the contour of the muscles of his body to make them look realistic. Finally using a polygonal lasso tool I selected strands of hair and used a soft brush to create the blood effect on his hair.

The original picture of the body had the person wearing a pair of jeans and had his shirt sort of over his hands, so I had to mask them with Cloud's pants and random cloth taken from his arm sleeve.

I absolutely do not own the copyrights of any part of this picture, and of the original pictures that I based on to create this picture!