Here's how it goes. I post a piece of artwork and I will give a description on how I made it.
Many of you have seen this before, it was the first non joking photoshop I did that I was ever proud of. All of this started when I wanted to stray away from doing the plain old copy&paste style photoshop humor as seen in many "Photoshop Phridays" on SomethingAwful.com and do something, I don't know... slightly more interesting. I wanted to take a figure, whether it be real or cg modeled, and texturize it with pre-exsting forms. I started with creepy Beksinski and Giger painting and now have moved on to real life objects such as roots and gravel. My first attempt at this, was a picture I made back in October of 2002. I was halfway through my last semester in college and I was very miserable.
Now the final result is titled poser because I used the program "Poser 4" to make the figure. Poser if you didn't know already, is the program Jesus uses when he wants to make crude cg porn. I was introduced to this program by the citizens of FYAD, who use it to make such hillarious compositions as this gem of an image right here.
Yes... well isn't that lovely.
Anyway, I created the figure. Colored the skin blue and the background green... much like how they set things up to do composite imagery for movies. This makes areas of light and dark easy to select later in photoshop when I import it as a .bmp file. I know I've been given much praise for some of the stuff I've done, but honestly it's so very simple. You take the figure, select areas of light and dark with the magic wand tool, and simply just make a layer mask. With each new layer, paint on detail from another source, in this case I used a Giger painting, and apply it in the appropriate areas. I did this with 3 layers, adjusted the properties to "vivid light" then merely changed the overall color and added a little zoom blur. Wallah! Finished. Now I just need to learn how to edit the style sheet of this blasted blog busines and then you'll see some really cool stuff.
