Back in the days before color film, photography studios often "hand colored" portraits. I've always enjoyed scanning and colorizing old family photos, and the current j-contest stirred that interest yet again, even though it's a reverse effect/process from the one explained in jia's tutorial. So, combine that previous pasttime with my trying to ( Read more... )

I have seen several different people do sets of Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies before, but never to my complete satisfaction. The names were gotten wrong, or the base images were of unacceptable quality, or the format wasn't to my liking. I saw someone on a community using an image from the frontispiece of the book, which reminded me that I have ( Read more... )

I know, I know, you guys are still recovering from the huge flower posts. But I always feel somewhat incomplete when I don't have saving/base-i-fying to do. Which further proves my addiction. :P

So, I have 800 body bases for you. Some pretty faces, but mostly closeups of hands, eyes, lips, feet, legs, stomachs, backs, breasts, necks. There is ( Read more... )

More bases! Yay for more bases. I really AM an addict, heh.

I raided Corbis for some pretty pictures. All pictures were found there ( Read more... )