New Daily Deviation! [breaking down the photo]

Hello my Sweethearts!
Today I'm here to share with my joy of appreciation. We got another honor of recieving "Daily Deviation" award for my "Lich Queen" photoshoot!
There won't be any Dzikan photography without your support and love I'm recieving. Which means, this is OUR award )

I think, today is also great opportunity to share on small inside how winning shot was done )
I think I've never shown you how source photos looked before going to post. Glimpse of them you might grasp in Backstages.
So, this one specific shot was created by fusing two different shots. Here are both of them, "find similiar parts" ) Honestly, there were about 5 different photos, but I took very small things from them, so they weren't so impactful )

It's always very challenging to achieve perfect image, while working with amature models. Mostly they don't know how to pose, make needed facial expression or as always do both at same time. Since modeling is not their professional activity, I need to take that in consideration while shooting.
So during post-production, I always end up in such situation: There - face is better, there - body posture is better. Sometimes there are a lot more struggles with one specific shot.
If we put it simple, I took head from one photo, some body parts from another, cape is a strange fusing of brush skills and what originaly was shot, sword and hair  same story )
And we are not talking about usual retouching process like: erasing tattoos, correcting skin imperfections and skin tone, changing body proportions in order to fit more "feminine look", correcting shadow and light if needed, "improving hair".
It's not like I'm doing something surreal, at least it's one of my jobs and minimal requirement to every retoucher )

And amount of work on model's visual appearence differs from model to model. Not everyone hits the gym, eats healthy or just not lazy in general.
But as a photographer, I think, I need to be able to make people look more beautiful than they are in real life.

Remember ZeroTwo? I didn't like how "Bang" looked like, soooo I redrew it on every photo. ) But in other parts, I didn't do much on post, because model looked good in most of shots. I think there was only two shots that were as complicated as "devianted" shot from Lich Queen. (Small note: both models are different people)

This long post wasn't created to just brag about how everything is hard and complicated. But to show how I am grateful to every of you. If you liked my works and decided to support me as the artist, that means you saw more than most of people usually see.  It's already 2 years since I started to fully create on Patreon, but people still missing me up with models from my projects or giving all credit to them for finished project, hehe...)
That's why thank you once again from the bottom of my heart for your support! And for finding time to support other artists who are working hard everyday. )

Hope, it was interesting "inside" for you. If you liked it, make sure to let me know, I'll try to break down by parts more shots in future posts )

Have a great day my Friends! I'm working hard on Marie Rose photoshoot and soon I'll share on it's progress ) For now, please stay healthy and happy!