Well, meow there !
Went to freaking ice cold D.C. and visited three states in one day back and forth to get stuff done. After all, felt like beasting it out like the Medusa.... And being exhausted, just kept on going until my mind could not carry my body for any longer and had to nap. It was cram time. Thank goodness, that the boss saved the time to get things lined up....
So did the two slam magazine thingies.... Unfortunately, the pics I took, went all sour. But one stood out, with no potential of a clear cut photo- just really blurry. What to do ? How can one salvage garbage ? Sometimes there is treasure in trash !
So did the second version of the slam magazine, and it is the boy with the long hair, Chris- at the Student Life. He has such georgeous hair, he will make any woman jealous ( or man )....
I decided to use Lightwave for text, not happy about the bottom part- but after about eight hours of dedication, the dedication wore off for the night and ended up just leaving it, too tired to go on after being in the same room from 7:40 ish a.m. til 9:30 ish p.m... The marathon is over for the day!
Anyway, after rendering the pics from Lightwave in different textures and putting it into a png format- Photoshop covered the rest. I made several copies of the same edge glow photo, and dragged,rotated,warped, stretched it, etc and then added a few flame brushes to it. The folio for this one is the two brush swoosheeezzz....
I was too tired to focus harder on the folio and would redo it later, if so... I wanted to do something better, but just the time it took to do all of this was spent with all energy on the beefy part, not the side dish....
The first version is a " Tree Woman" something I had in mind since 1994. I had an old painting I winged half of a lifetime ago, and I decided to stick with my first thought. That thought was, that some day I would redo this picture. I did not know then, what Photoshop was, and did not know, that I would redo it in Photoshop.... So I used it as a base for my main idea, added pieces of photos from landscapes that I had taken in the past and then used some special brushed for rock texture etc. But all I do, I create all of my stuff myself, almost all of it. I do not like using stuff from the internet, and make it mine, unless there is time constraint, or lack of local resources. It is nice to use your own work... And when all fails, then the internet of course is the best option. But to have things, that are original and created like the food at the dinner table and not a drive through style art job- it just feels more rewarding and genuine in character, well at least to me. The thing is of course, that all of this is really much more harder to do,because of a huge investment in time.Anyway, the first version is mixed media, between painting, photography and digital painting.
So going back to the last one version- I did use the images for some of the past SLAM magazines to create a clipping mask for the word itself SLAM. Kinda to honor the past SLAMMER's ....
Using the eraser brush helped to blend it along with the Clone Stamp tool- to merge partial images together...
Well that is all for now...
Here is the first and the second version.
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