Underseer
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I haven't done this in a long, long time.
I stopped around the time it became obnoxiously hard to get FreeHand to run on newer versions of Windows, and I was uninterested in learning a new vector editing program. Yes, I learned FreeHand instead of Illustrator because various places I worked at used Aldus PageMaker for page layout, and sometimes you could get bundle deals from by buying other software from the same publisher, so yeah.
Anyway, I love impressionist paintings. I love how up close the paintings look fairly abstract, but if you take a few steps back and/or squint, the image resolves to a realistic depiction of something.
I break up an image into individual color channels (usually CMYK), posterize each channel, break apart each channel into separate images for each gradation, then use vector editing software to create rough approximations of the shapes in each separate sub-image, then combine all the separate channels back into a raster image editor like Photoshop.
https://talkfreethought.org/album.php?albumid=30
The butterfly is from some stock photo I got from I don't remember where. It was an earlier effort.
The other three images are from scans of Polaroid pictures I took. The guitar player and the Coke can are different crops of the same Polaroid picture. The toddler is my nephew (he's a teen now). My wacky brother and sister in law decided to put dark grey carpets and furniture in a room with light grey paint on the walls in their living room/home theater. This caused my Cheerio-munching nephew to really stand out, which is why I took the photo.
I know this thread is technically a rehash of at least one thread we've already had, but what the fuck. We have some new faces around.
I've not done anything creative for decades, but I figure that if I start the thread with my awful-looking crap, other people will feel more free to share their creative efforts, whatever they might be. Share anything creative at all. Art, poems, music, short films, whatever it is that you do.
I stopped around the time it became obnoxiously hard to get FreeHand to run on newer versions of Windows, and I was uninterested in learning a new vector editing program. Yes, I learned FreeHand instead of Illustrator because various places I worked at used Aldus PageMaker for page layout, and sometimes you could get bundle deals from by buying other software from the same publisher, so yeah.
Anyway, I love impressionist paintings. I love how up close the paintings look fairly abstract, but if you take a few steps back and/or squint, the image resolves to a realistic depiction of something.
I break up an image into individual color channels (usually CMYK), posterize each channel, break apart each channel into separate images for each gradation, then use vector editing software to create rough approximations of the shapes in each separate sub-image, then combine all the separate channels back into a raster image editor like Photoshop.
https://talkfreethought.org/album.php?albumid=30
The butterfly is from some stock photo I got from I don't remember where. It was an earlier effort.
The other three images are from scans of Polaroid pictures I took. The guitar player and the Coke can are different crops of the same Polaroid picture. The toddler is my nephew (he's a teen now). My wacky brother and sister in law decided to put dark grey carpets and furniture in a room with light grey paint on the walls in their living room/home theater. This caused my Cheerio-munching nephew to really stand out, which is why I took the photo.
I know this thread is technically a rehash of at least one thread we've already had, but what the fuck. We have some new faces around.
I've not done anything creative for decades, but I figure that if I start the thread with my awful-looking crap, other people will feel more free to share their creative efforts, whatever they might be. Share anything creative at all. Art, poems, music, short films, whatever it is that you do.