HP Art: Bubotubers

[gnatkip]

Title: Bubotubers
Fandom: Harry Potter
Media: ArtRage, Photoshop
Notes: Imitation of Vincent van Gogh's Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers, for hp_fringeart's Imitation Challenge.

"They looked less like plants than thick, black, giant slugs, protruding vertically out of the soil. Each was squirming slightly and had a number of large, shiny swellings upon it,

Comments

[elana_m]

I love this movie. When you did the background, I had the feeling if I reached out for the screen my fingers were gonna get yellow, because the colour was still wet.
Amazing!

[gnatkip]

Aw, thanks! That software is so cool; it's all smoodgy.

[ratcreature]

This is very cool (though yeah, kind of obscene with the phallic shapes and the oozing...*g*), and I love the progress video. Interesting to see how you layered the colors. BTW how do you capture this kind of thing for a screen video?

[gnatkip]

Thank you! I think there are several programs that will record from screen nowadays, but I use CamStudio. ArtRage has unlimited undo/redo for as long as the window remains open. So after I've finished drawing, I undo all the way to the beginning, start recording, and redo all the way to the end. The last 13 seconds are in Photoshop, and there I just started recording and made visible each layer in succession.

I think Open Canvas does "real" recordings, but I don't have that.

[ratcreature]

Oh, the undo/redo thing is a neat trick, I hadn't thought of that. Unfortunately ArtRage (under the Wine emulator) doesn't really run problem free for me, though I played a bit with it. And Gimp reaches the end of it's rope fairly quickly with the undo, or needs insane ressources if you extend them further back.

[dun]

I LOVE it! Great to see the process, too. :) Perhaps you're right about the leaves, though when I first looked at the picture I liked that the roundness and bulbousness was such a contrast to the original ...and then I really noticed the 'oozing bits' *blushes at the suggestiveness* ;)

[gnatkip]

*showers you with ooze*

...Er. Wait. :D

Thank you!

[torenheksje]

So Van Gogh! Nice to see you posting again. ;c)

[gnatkip]

Thanks! Yes, yay, hi!

[laurelwood]

I love this! And watching the video is fantastic, not only in a tutorial-ish way (I struggle with lighting, so watching people who know what they're doing is very helpful), but also to get to see that bubo actually swell and explode, right before my very eyes!

I'd totally put a bouquet like this on my dining room table. Well, maybe with a protective cloth underneath. Just gorgeous!

[gnatkip]

Thanks! I don't know that I'd say I know what I'm doing, but I love it when people show their videos, too.