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 Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:24 am
So, I was searching around for images so I can get some sort of inspiration for a drawing which I would like to do for a certain someone..and I had an idea.
So here's what I had in mind:
In this thread I plan on putting random photographs, and I would like to challenge all of us to take one, or several, and do something with it. Whether it's a free hand drawing, something with digital or fractals, or whatever. I'd like to see what sort of different things we all can come up with using the same images, and I encourage you to find and add your own photo's (be they random, or ones you've taken yourself) for all of us to toy with in our own ways.
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:38 am
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:23 am
Aye aye mon Cap-i-tan! Stuff shall be done with this, post haste.
So this is going to be a horse? I'm a bit confused by the directions, but I shall do it in your name, oh holy Brain Storm!
I must succeed!
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 2:55 pm
Okay, so the other pics didn't load, but I did the water one.
Before:
After:
 The Docking
I decided to go with a Dali-esque surreal piece, of which this will be my very first. Its supposed to be a 3Dish pic too, so let me know if my altering of the lighting aspects comes out okay, please.
Thanks.
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Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:41 pm
For this one, I did two variations on the project with the same woman. I made this into a fractal and used that to flood fill the woman and give her the hue of tribal war paint (yes, she's clothed in armor, you just can't see it.... fantasy armor, go fig).
The first was done as a scene and used as the fractal I pixelated for the background of the picture, the second as a water color piece.
 The Camouflaged Warrior v_ 1 and 2 
I'm also keeping these images the same size as the original-- more for the challenge than for any other reason.
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:23 pm
I will have to try this... I think I'll sketch something.
Er.
Actually, I'm incapable of sketching, since I get carried away with defining the lines... It makes erasing a very stressful ordeal. sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:20 am
I can't wait to see what you come up with hon.
And your attention to your lines isn't a bad thing at all. Not only does it make 'your style' your style, but also shows how much you care as an artist about your work.
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:42 pm
The fractals always blow me away. Your ship picture is very cool. I picture a ship full of pirates crashing into a wall of water and all of em sayin..s**t now what?
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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:51 am
wo0o... sorry but I'm not good with editing images D:
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:38 pm
They don't have to be photo manips... but now I think I might want to try that... 8D
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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:13 pm
Actually, I'm going to go back and do some sketching by hand of these. I had a back injury a few years ago and now my hand drawing sucks. . . But I don't believe in letting anything get me down permanently, so I'm gonna post them no matter how dreadful they come out.
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:33 am
yeah, it doesn't have to be any specific thing. You can draw it, photoshop it, paint it, bake it, grill it..wait.. ugh I need more coffee holy hell.
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:36 pm
Okay, here's one that will bake your noodle. It started out with an idea of altering the moon to a black/purple hue. Then I took the mist picture and ....
 This is a thumbnail, of the emergency broadcasting system. This is only a thumbnail.
Please don't ask how I came up with this. I don't know. And oddly enough, it didn't take that much editing. I took a point-to-point selection tool over the mist valley and set it to 5 opacity. Cut off the sky and lower dark parts (tree or hill tops). Took that into Mr. Contrast, made it the same hue as my moon. Put the moon on a layer, dropped it down.
Took a free-ware web background with spirals, and overlaid that upon itself several times for the desired ' u'-shaped bowl effect and Mr. Contrasted that for the same coloration, then dropped that down below the mist valley. Set to 0 opacity, I took my selection tool and did a shape of a funnel. Then I flood filled another layer with black behind it.
I took another free-ware web background (I literally have tens of thousands) and flood filled it as a tiled background, setting the layer to the bottom of the image. It isn't seamless, and isn't supposed to be for the effect.
....Oddly enough, I use the backgrounds more in art than I do on web pages... go figure...
Anyway, I then went back to my mist layer, took a cloud tube (transparent backgrounded image for PSP) that I had (finally) successfully made black and semi-transparent. I copied and pasted it over the rim of the mist, giving it the cloudy look. I also copy and pasted an oval-shaped area near the outer rim of the mist and pasted as a new image. Then, using Mr. Contrast, I switched the settings from Color to Saturation and changed it to a purplesque.
I used pre-made, downloaded tubes (from someone else) that were the purple stars. I used several pre-made lightening tubes, but took them into Mr. Contrast to correctly shade them. And viola.
The Birth (enter echo) of Darkness (another echo all Sci-Fi and dramaticy like that).
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 12:42 pm
THAT! is awesome! I love the way the moon turned out in it. Great color selection as well. I dig it!
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:51 am
Why thank you! I love the way it came out myself. I wanted to go way out of the 'norm' one might do with these pictures. And I was amazed at how lovely the mist came out. (I would have scrapped it if it hadn't.)
Thanks for the feedback Brain. (LOL!)
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