the image it self is dramatic for sure , for me it was not clear is it a photo , a drawing, painting or a render.
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the image it self is dramatic for sure , for me it was not clear is it a photo , a drawing, painting or a render.
It's a mix of many things as I so often work. I use photos, and sometimes I scan objects, so it is my upside-down studio, don't know if you have heard of it. Use whatever technique I think can give me the result I'm looking for. In this case, a picture with a look that reminds you of an organ but is not a real organ, as I said, trying to "personify it," make it a new living being that in reality, doesn't exist and will never do.
Have you seen my picture "The heart"? It's probably my best in this category, and I have sold more copies of it than any other picture I've made in this style. That picture originally was a crust frozen root, whit similar decayed leaves from the last summer frozen to it that I found one winter, cars had run over it, and people walked on it, totally in ruin. I saw the form of a heart in it and first isolated that form in PS (which I use primarily for my after-work end edits but also many other small programs and effects, in this one here, I'm trying AI for the first time, for example, one new weapon in my arsenal) I had to try to lift it, and that's where the drawing comes in. To lift it and get better 3D I had to draw shadows, especially near the edges, and layered many pieces from other photos onto it to get the look I wanted, a Heart of dead and decayed leaves.
In this picture, it's similar. Removed all background, drow dark deep edges, and shadows to make it more rounded, as well as on it to get the feeling of a ball/bladder, get from other sources this and that I wanted but wasn't in the original picture.
I put a copy of the picture The Heart along whit this comment so you can see similar work.
And one more thing. Just got back from the hospital, and it's over! (for now at least, not at all certain if it will happen again but might).
This is innate; I have never heard of such a thing. Being born with bacterial cysts in the lungs, which under certain circumstances can grow and make a person so sick that it can become serious, but when this was discovered in May, I was told immediately that it was serious without any explanation as to how serious it was.
Well that sounds like a big relief , congrats on sinking the submarine :)
hope your recovery goes well too.
Thanks :)
very nice to read and understand how the picture came to life , looks like a lot of work while all i do is walk in the garden and press a button. The heart looks amazing .great work keep it up !
Yes, it can take one or two days just to finish one picture if I'm not doing anything else, but sometimes the motiw is all alive in the photo, scan, or however I make it, then it can be just one or two hours.
But collecting material that could one day be a picture or material in another is most of the work. I don't post often here on HIVE. First, my sickness stopped me, and I lost touch with photographing then, haven't got it back, really, primarily working from all the big collection of material I got now.
Also, losing health changes one's thinking; what is it in your life that is most important, what do you really want to do, with whom, and where to live? all kinds of questions.
So I have been going through old stuff. I'm 62, I have got pictures since I was a teenager and young man, I have published 13 books, I'm a dancer, I have done so many things in my life, but at this crossroads, I still don't know what I want to focus on. Probably nothing, just this one day and another thing the next. Just what makes me feel well and happy.
But I can still work, so it's not all play and fun. I love my work, so it will not change; it's what I do after work that has changed and probably will keep on changing. Now pictures like this one got all my attention, the possibility of AI. It's no magic in it, I watch people make silly kitsch cliches pictures in it because that's how the AI is programmed. But I found a way to get out of it what I wanted. I feed it with such freaky text that it freaks out, can't handle it, and then often I get some creasy stuff I can use. But usually, not; it takes many attempts to get something I can work whit because I also can never know how the AI will freak out. But sometimes, I can see in its forms that I can isolate and manipulate and draw on to it, and; wow! I got what I wanted and left the AI lost and mindless of what it was doing.
Yeah life passes by way to fast, it's like only yesterday when i fell down on my first bicycle and next month we will be turning to level 56 🤣 , i see live as a game each year i gain another level. And later this year i will get to be grandpa for the first time. I'm a poor writer myself , but publishing 13 books sounds like a lot of work to me.
I started to do some volunteers work to get me out of the house again, i posted about it soome weeks ago :
https://ecency.com/marketfriday/@stresskiller/volunteers-work-in-progress
It keeps me bussy and i can share my knowledge with others, and you get to meet new people.