Key to My Heart

original sky image in sbs. Thank you for viewing. All comments and critiques are welcomed. updated image. played with the lighting a bit...took out some shadow that didn't need to be here. Perhaps its not perfect..but..i'm content.

For: mixed manipulations 4 contest

"The Unexamined Life...

Is Not Worth Living." ~Socrates~ additional source in sbs.

For: mixed manipulations 4 contest

through the looking glass

thank you Mr. Carroll for inspiring me through the ages...from my youth to my age of now.... "Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I - I hardly know, sir, just at present - at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.' 'What...

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Sunny Day Feeling

i played around with the pieces of the rope, all using 'warp" in free transform. check sbs for original source pictures used in the making of this.

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Rolled like Marbles

Saturation decreased, levels adjusted, brightness and contrast adjusted.

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Evil Siren

In the classic version of the siren, they were depicted as half bird, half woman. but after searching the link, i found that they were also depicted as evil versions of the mermaid, set out to lure sailors to their deaths. i took the concept of the siren and i made it my own. instead of a lovely ...

For: water creatures contest

Sea Witch

my favorite character from the little mermaid was Ursula, the sea witch...This little lady may not be the vision Disney had for their witch, but....I think its more suiting to what i'd envision. According to wikipedia, the octopus person is known as a cecaelia. Read more on this here: http://en....

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Baby Its Cold Outside

thanks to xx Stacey xx @ dA for the model stock, and flashtucka@dA for brushes. my first attempt at this. there aren't too many tutorials out there to teach how to do this effect. seems they all repeat themselves. So i just mixed a few things from each of the tuts and added my own spin to them. ...

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beaute interne

barely finished this in time to post, and i haven't had time to finish an sbs. basically just used source from the undiscovered contest as an overlay for the body forms. Used a filter on a layer of just hair to smooth it (paintdaubs) and then blurred the hair, dodged highlights, then used plastic ...

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Portrait of an A.L.F.

Far past the distant galaxies on a planet yet to be discovered by earthly men, lives a race of interstellar life forms. They take shape in the form of a female humanoid, with no body hair. the bright pigmentation in their skin glows under ultraviolet lights, and during full moons season. This season...

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Any Man

He could be any man. He could be any woman for that matter. A face in the crowd, the checkout person at the grocery store, your brother, your sister, your aunt, your best friend...There is an estimated 33.3million people acrossed the planet living with HIV or AIDS. Did you wear your red ribbon? ...

For: all red contest

Anarchy

i've played with light painting with all sorts of light sources in the past..from lighters to glow sticks, flashlights and fireworks. Certainly won't be the most awesome of the entries, but i couldn't help but share.

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City At War

thank goodness for cosplayers, or else i wouldn't have had the sources to do this. Check sbs for background source image taken from my own stock. Considering the images i used are not actually of the real batman and joker, i don't see any copyright infringement..and all the sources were up for cre...

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"let them eat cake"

this makes me laugh. i kept toying with different ideas and finally settled on this idea. :D hope you guys find it as entertaining. its good for a laugh anyway. Check sbs for original source photo taken by myself.

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Fields of Daydreams

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Drop Dead Gorgeous

yeah..minimal use of brushes...however,i won't deny that i used some. thanks to the artists out there making decay brushes for this sort of application. some hand painting and overlay...really quite simple manip.

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Come a little closer....

most of this was done with liquify. was done a while back, but i did some adjustments to it and added some coloring that i think really suits it. original picture in sbs. no outside sources used.

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Autumn Stroll

sky source to be found in my sbs.

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Love's Truest Language

"Flowers are love's truest language." - Park Benjamin

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Lestat

"I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised, all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." -the vampire lestat by Anne Rice

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Blue Mood

No reference used... I find myself more drawn to picasso's blue period, and that is what i was aiming to achieve with this piece. Done in oil pastels on velum bristol.

For: picasso td contest

"If i don't have red...

I use blue"-Pablo Picasso "Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. " — Pablo Picasso "There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats." — Pablo Picasso no reference. no red paint. :P Acrylic on Canvas

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Monochromatic Dreams

something i came up with for the dream contest last week but didn't have time to enter. Hope you all like it.

For: mixed manipulations 8 contest

ground shot

the camera survived. however, my face about suffered trauma. :lol:

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