Tuesday, December 13, 2011

faces in the background


     This is one of the reasons I love creating random backgrounds first.  Sometimes the faces just appear out of nowhere.  All I did was follow the red spots with the black and it all came into focus.  Fun stuff : )

5 comments:

  1. I like how this one maintains all those 'Vincent' qualities, but now the skeletal face seems to have retreated a bit into the murky background, merging and undulating with it. It kind of amps up the creepy a bit now that the face is looking at us from the corner its eye. or worse, it hasn't seen us yet!

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  2. As I was scanning this and preparing to post I also noticed how the face definitely seems to merge with the background. There's even a couple of incidental lines that seem to suggest cheek bones.

    As for the side-eye, I seem to be trending towards that lately. I've got a few other pieces I completed in the past couple of months with similar orientations.

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  3. I love a good side-eye! And I'm really digging this technique.

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  4. I just noticed, the thumbnail view of this piece in the sidebar. It takes on a more substantial quality at that distance. Perhaps also I am sitting too close to my monitor. LOL On the smaller one, the background becomes almost rock like. Very cool.

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  5. You're absolutely right. The area behind his left "cheekbone" seems further away, making him seem to emerge from the rock. I even looked at the original from a distance and the same holds true. Good catch!

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