xenophora's photos

Collage and decollage on board. Originally posted 10/29/06.

Same card, run through the "Artistic: Smudge Stick" filter. Originally posted 10/28/06.

Collage on board. Originally posted 10/28/06. This made it onto the promotional postcard for a local ATC show a few summers back. If I find the promo, I'll put it up.

Same picture, after the "Rotate Image" option, the "Blur: Radial" filter and a going-over with one of those brushes that looks like a single eyelash. The eye was re-oriented with the Clone Stamp and a little help from the Blur and Smudge tools:

Collage and decollage on board. Originally posted 10/27/06.

A mix of effects used here. There's some "Artistic: Smudge Stick" filter in the yellow field and over the big eye. Some other tools, too. There's an "Artistic: Sponge" filter over most of the green field. This is one of my first attempts to convincingly alter an actual drawing with computer pencil. Those "paint" smudges over Mrs. Suburbia and her cooking project came with the original picture (from a Pet milk recipe pamphlet), if you were wondering. Originally posted 10/26/06.

Collage, decollage, and colored pencil on board. Originally posted 10/26/06.

This redo of the previous card uses a trio of Photoshop filters called "Artistic: Underpainting," set with the "Brick" option. A few other tools, as well. I was aiming for the look of those exterior wall-sized ads that dot the downtown landscape around here. Or at least they did at one time. I rarely get downtown these days. Originally posted 10/25/06.

Collage and colored pencil on board. Originally posted 10/25/06.

The same card, worked with a pair of filters. The attempt at a raised effect here and there is from "Stylize: Emboss" again. The background "pencil" look comes from "Texture: Grain- Horizontal." The Blur, Smudge, and Clone Stamp tools are also involved. This was only the second card I ever did. (The first was never posted, but it's similar to this one, but with a vertical composition.) I like the 3D effect of the filters a lot here, especially around the "windows."

Collage and decollage on board. Originally posted 10/24/06.

The same card as before, run through a pair of "Distortion: Glass" filters, then worked with a few other tools. This was a very early card, and the first one I thought was really successful. "Glass" has numerous variations, and these are different than those used back on 10/5/06.

Collage, decollage, and colored pencil on board. Originally posted 10/23/06.

Same card, using the filter "Artistic: Accented Edges," and some more of the Clone Stamp.

Collage, decollage, and colored pencil on board, originally posted 10/22/06.

Same card as previous, run through the "Distort: Ripple" option, and worked with the Clone stamp, etc.

Collage and colored pencil on board. Originally posted 10/21/06.

Same card, run through an amalgam of "Artistic: Rough Pastels" filters. Then the bars on either side got worked with the Clone Stamp and Smudge tools. This style of card didn't have a name until somebody --I forget who-- started calling them "Bubbleheads."