happy holidays from a legendary family

okay, have you been waiting in suspense?! 

happy late Christmas and new years! 

i took each of my siblings and made us all famous statues (though no actual body parts were photoshopped, with the exception of my arms  (or lack thereof). it took...some doing. at least, i was up all night Christmas eve and jonny (atlas) stayed up with me. so it's kind of our sibling Christmas card.

it's not the most thorough photoshop job, but it gets the point across. 

points to who can name the statues all correctly!

maybe i'll make a bitty (but rad) piece of art for the winner..... 

:)

all sortsa nerd

i'm tonks for halloween.

and i just couldn't help but make this....

(i obviously intentionally ripped off this image.)

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it was a fun process, and i did it rather quickly. after 40 minutes, i went from the first photos on the left to the second image.

from that point on, the other 2+ hours were just tweaking and awesoming.


in short, i -- desaturated the photo, cut myself out, added grain, adjusted lighting and contrast, cloned part of the lower half of the body from the second original picture, painted fog, and added facial highlights.

the hardest part for me was painting the rim light and highlights. but i think i got the gist of it.
























i really needed a break from work/freelance/classes to recharge my artistic brain, and i think it worked. happy halloween!