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Sorry about that. I posted other pics earlier in this thread so maybe the same thing has happened with those ones.
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Sorry about that. I posted other pics earlier in this thread so maybe the same thing has happened with those ones.
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What are you meaning. 'Me' or generally everyone?
Gawdzilla Sama
121.92-meter mutant fire-breathing lizard-thingy
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SlackerBabbath
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If Marcel Duchamp can draw a moustache onto a print of the Mona Lisa and re-name it L.H.O.O.Q. (which, when pronounced in French, form the sentence "Elle a chaud au cul", which translates as "She is hot in the arse") then I don't think you have a problem with copyright.
Love those waves, and your use of light is really good.
Thankyou.
Here's one of my own seascapes.
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Manopolus
Metaphorical Anomaly
Here's another pshop collage:
That's actually the Earth behind her, not the moon... using a luminosity layer. The Arabian sub-continent is fairly apparent once you know that.
That's actually the Earth behind her, not the moon... using a luminosity layer. The Arabian sub-continent is fairly apparent once you know that.
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That looks like a movie poster Manopolus.
Another of mine.
This is a view of my own town of Burnley with Pendle Hill in the background.
Another of mine.
This is a view of my own town of Burnley with Pendle Hill in the background.
Milbrandt
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I made this portrait a while back, but only recently got a scanner. It is basically a manual printing/reproduction of a black and white photo of the Amazing One himself.
The style was inspired by Salvador Dali's "Lincoln in Dalivision" and the fact that I didn't have a printer back then:
In a way, it is a sort of pareidolia. I think it's interesting to think of how low the resolution has to be for it to become a "true" pareidolia; if it were only 6 "pixels", would you still recognize who it is? If not, where's the threshold?
I also used this technique to counterfeit the Mona Lisa, though I doubt it will fool anyone:
ETA: Way too huge pictures, I'll repost them. ETA2: They work better when they're really small anyway:
The style was inspired by Salvador Dali's "Lincoln in Dalivision" and the fact that I didn't have a printer back then:
In a way, it is a sort of pareidolia. I think it's interesting to think of how low the resolution has to be for it to become a "true" pareidolia; if it were only 6 "pixels", would you still recognize who it is? If not, where's the threshold?
I also used this technique to counterfeit the Mona Lisa, though I doubt it will fool anyone:
ETA: Way too huge pictures, I'll repost them. ETA2: They work better when they're really small anyway:
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TeapotCavalry
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Awesome. The big ones work well if you squint, basically morphing from pixelated mess into lifelike photos. What technique did you use to get the shades that exact? Some computerized pre-processing of reference photos (like photoshop filters or some such)?
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TeapotCavalry
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Been trying to practice black-white values recently.
~2-3 hours
Somewhere around 5-6 hours
~2-3 hours
Somewhere around 5-6 hours
12AX7
Banned
So, I can interpret it as somewhat related to my guitars? Howlin' WolfHey fellas!
Here's four of my junkers!
Milbrandt
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Thank you. Yes, the bigger ones work too. Part of the fun of those is that they get clearer when you squint. It seems counterintuitive, but my best guess is that the fuzziness makes it easier for the brain to "connect the dots" and recognize it. Perhaps because the fuzziness creates round edges, which is more natural for a face.
(When I said "way too huge", i referred to the original scans I posted originally, which were something around 3500 by 2500 pixels)
I used GIMP to get the blueprint for my grid paper. I desaturated the original photo's and tweaked the brightness/contrast, then I scaled and cropped them to the available number of pixels on my paper, and finally I used the "posterize" filter to reduce the number of colors to 6. This got me a pixel by pixel blueprint in black, white, and 4 shades of gray. I used 4 special coloring pens for the gray, and a regular one for the black. I didn't have to fill in the white, of course.
Nice! How did you make those, on a graphics tablet?
Awesome instruments! Is that a Whamola(-banjo) on the right?jhunter1163
beer-swilling semiliterate
I've never really shown anyone my art, such as it is, because it doesn't photograph well; I have a gift for tiny writing, and I mean tiny. I could, literally, write the entire Gettysburg Address on a penny. I don't use a magnifying glass or any apparatus; just my naked eyes and a very steady hand.
12AX7
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Thanks! All my junkers are used with slides.
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Gosh! Nice work, everyone! I was thinking of putting up a card from a new CCG deck I'm working on, but you've all put me to shame.
Very cool. What do you write with?
jhunter1163
beer-swilling semiliterate
I use either an 0.3 mm mechanical pencil or a single-hair brush, depending what I'm writing on. If I'm using the pencil, I'll rub one side of the lead to wear it down to make it thinner. Mrs. JHunter1163 saw a street vendor once who would write your first name on a grain of rice; I wasn't impressed. I could write your full name.
I use either an 0.3 mm mechanical pencil or a single-hair brush, depending what I'm writing on. If I'm using the pencil, I'll rub one side of the lead to wear it down to make it thinner. Mrs. JHunter1163 saw a street vendor once who would write your first name on a grain of rice; I wasn't impressed. I could write your full name.
I'm very impressed! I do wish I could see some photos.
TeapotCavalry
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Yeah, it's quite weird. I recognized Mona Lisa of course, but Randi's pic seemed like a mess until I squinted. Our brain is a powerful post-processor, smoothing out sharp edges and filling in missing information. It works especially well with faces, since we're wired to recognize and look for them everywhere.
Aah, ok. Thought you used Photoshop's pixelate filter. Haven't used GIMP myself.
Yup, graphics tablet and Manga Studio 5 (I don't like Photoshop for anything other than photo manipulation). Had a reference photo on the side, desaturated to see the black and white values.
ETA: for the second pic (Dannii), I recorded a workflow video.
I have rather terrible 'artistic eye', so my method is basically sculpting - erasing and redrawing - from blocks of gibberish into something that starts to resemble the subject.
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Milbrandt
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Thanks! All my junkers are used with slides.
I see, that explains the high action as well. But that is a whammy bar-type handle at the top to change the tension of the strings, right? (Struggling with the terminology here, but I think you know what I mean).
Oh come on, no reason to feel ashamed! Look at what I did, I kicked a year-old thread to show off something that only really required some planning. Once I had the blueprint, not much additional creativity was required. Besides, we're all really nice here... right?
Looking forward to seeing your artwork soon.
12AX7
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Which one are you referring to?