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[pieces o nine]

Insomnia strikes again...

Here's a little wallpaper design altering the digital labyrinth I drafted for my circle. It's now completely under water and that little blob floating in the middle is a camouflaged toad fish.


If yer gonna be starin atcher compyooter ennyweighs, ye jest as well be sailin thru thee labyrinth t' induce calm an sarennitea an such.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

That's nice, what program did you use?

[pieces o nine]

Thank you.

I use Illustrator and/or PhotoShop for all my digital art.

If I ever sprang for one of those lovely fractal makers or some of the 3D modeling software I might never pry myself away from the computer!

[Black Bart]

I am inspired to do more artwork with photoshop but I am also trying to improve my cartoon skills using traditional methods.

Here's one of my latest Spot the differences which was created using Adobe Illustrator:

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Ice flaking off the 'berg on the left side, extra snowflake at the left-upper.  Clouds at the upper right.  Bubbles alongside the right side of the iceberg.  Diving penguin.  Yellow fishy.  Extra waves in water, in near-foreground.   Background land is blue on the left, green on the right.

( I can shift my vision from one drawing to the other rapidly, which makes the changes appear to "blink". Is that cheating? )

[Aggie]

Extra/missing penguin, two left of speaker & flipper position of second-from-right penguin.

I can't do Bob's trick, so I scaled it and visually superimposed it by crossing my eyes - same effect, the differences are in a quantum state of visibility.

[Opsa]

Hey PO9, nice graphic! I tried to actually follow the labyrinth, but there seems to be no way in to the toadfish! (Maybe it's just as well. He might prefer the privacy.)

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Oh! I missed one change.

In the back row of penguins, the 2nd one from the right has raised his flippers in the right-hand picture.

Ag-- that cross-the-eyes is a cool trick. I must try it at once.  (I used to love those 3-D cross-your-eyes to see pictures...)

Edit:  it works.... many of the features that changed appear to flicker, in the central composite picture.

Nice trick, A!

(corrected the incorrect name reference, too...)

[pieces o nine]

I like the penguin art, bart.
Do you use 'mesh' to create your gradients, or the gradient palette, or the old blend-two-points method?


And if you could do "spot the Differences" for 3D glasses, it would be très cool.

[Aggie]

Oooh...  like the labyrinth (hadn't checked it yet - work doesn't like deviantart, apparently).

[pieces o nine]

Thank you.

The site name "deviant" itself might be off-putting to your work server, even apart from some of the NSFW photos!

[Aggie]

Who knows?  They cut out some strange stuff, and leave other stuff intact.

They don't allow any 'net radio, but apparently don't know about the U of C station.

[pieces o nine]

I invested squandered used my leisure hours to perpetrate execute make a subtle-y Halloween-y wallpaper:   Ruby Slippers.

Initial drawing in Illustrator, then each section imported into PhotoShop and manipulated. Save a copy with the layers & effects merged, then merge that copy with the merge version of another section... gah!



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Looking at other portfolios of what can be done with little effort and even less artistic talent, by downloading someone else's 3D computer-generated figures and "customizing" them with yet another person's texture mapping program(s), I feel a bit like a scribe who has learned to chisel all 5,000 hieroglyphs onto stone tablets, only to meet some young whippersnapper with a printing block from the local bazaar and rolls of papyrus paper...

[pieces o nine]

Here's some seasonal art you may take and have fun with, if you wish.     

DISCLAIMER:  The Pears Soap Witch is from 1899, but I colorized her and gave her some garbs, because it's kinda *cold* in October (not to mention at high altitudes!).

Pears Witch

Red Velvet Devi garb

Casual Friday garb

Leather

Black Velvet

[Aggie]

Paper dolls? Nice work!