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11: Sandman fanart (2x Death, 1x Del, 1x Desire)

Feb 28, 2007 08:45

All characters belong to Neil Gaiman.

1: Woodstock!Death. Because a vague plan to draw Death through the ages can only result in tie-dye.

( Woodstock!Death )

sandman: desire, fan art, sandman: death, sandman, sandman: delirium, art

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amazon_syren February 28 2007, 12:44:34 UTC

Re: Tie-dye: Eeeeeeee! :-D And she bearsa striking resemblance to Janis Joplin. (Which should really not suprise me. :-) (I also like the Debbie-Harry-based one. ;-)

Why do you want us to ignore Delerium's shoes? They look like those little ballet-flat slippers that are so popular over here right now. (Albeit with slightly pointier toes).

Re: Desire: Interesting how you did the face. totally androgynous. Nicely done. :-) Looks a bit like s/he's fading out of a stone surface. How'd you do that? :-)

latin_doll February 28 2007, 20:02:34 UTC

Thank you :D

I think Del's are somewhat shapeless, and also I ran out of paper at the bottom.

Re: Desire: there's a function in GIMP (that should also be in Photoshop; as far as I understand, GIMP is a free and slightly less luxurious alternative to Photoshop), probably called something like 'thresholds'. Basically, you define a shade of grey, and anything darker than that will be turned black. What I did, here, was not cleaning up the paper before scanning, doing the thresholds thingy, and shrinking the picture afterwards (which is why there are greyshades after all. I think.)

amazon_syren February 28 2007, 22:48:26 UTC

Re: Thresholds: So... anything *lighter* than that will be turned to... white? :-) Or is that just *way* too easy... :-)

Re: Delerium's shoes: Well, slightly, but that's part of why they look like slippers. Plus, hello, it's Delerium. She strikes me as a slippers or barefoot kind of gal. Usually, anyway. :-)

Re: Running out of paper: Doesn't it suck when that happens? So annoying. :-P

latin_doll March 1 2007, 20:28:14 UTC

Re: Thresholds: So... anything *lighter* than that will be turned to... white? :-) Or is that just *way* too easy... :-)

Ah, no, I oversimplified. It has two functions: defining a shade and turning everything that's darker into black; and defining a shade and turning everything that's lighter into white. These two don't have to be the same, though.

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luckystar37 March 1 2007, 03:52:28 UTC

Really interesting work! Thanks for sharing

latin_doll March 1 2007, 20:28:45 UTC

You're welcome :D Glad you like them.

that_fire_ball March 1 2007, 11:07:40 UTC

irgendwie scheint es mir so, als hättest du den kontrast zu niedrig geschraubt. kann aber auch an meinem ultrahellen monitor oder sonst was liegen.

latin_doll March 1 2007, 20:30:09 UTC

Ich hab die noch mal an 'nem normalen Monitor angeschaut und du hast vermutlich recht. Ich bearbeite die Bilder an 'nem Laptop, dessen Bildschirm mir so oder so ziemlich wenig Kontrast zeigt, daran wird's wohl liegen.