Lava Practice VD-S05

In this weeks Visual Design lesson we were playing with layer styles to get a lava effect. We started by drawing lava cracks on a black background. We did this with a yellow, hard, round brush. Then we applied inner and outer glows to the layer we had drawn on. This made it look very much more like lava. To top it off we added a texture.

Then we applied this technique to a pre-existing image to practice for our homework, making a lava monster. We were given an image of a clay rock monster model and we had to use this technique on it to make a lava monster. I also added a gradient map to make the colours blend with the rock better.