So, I've been playing with gimp a lot more lately, trying to learn to paint like I used to. Keep ending up with psychedelic stuff like this. Here we see coy guy A exhibiting sexy-eyes. The funky light and shadow I achieved by using the divide effect on a gaussian blurred, color curved image of flowers from my yard under the top layer after merging all the layers. I've been painting on this scrawny bastard for more hours than I can count. The only way I could get him to look right was to try equal parts smudging my lines and the stomp-brush looking brush in the palette. That left a dirty look so I tried sharpening, unsharp masks, and all sorts of stuff, and the burn filter too. The eyes I took a single-pixel brush to.
I was wondering, since NG doesn't really like any elements of photography or too much digital manipulation -- and the lights and shadow overlay is quite obviously a (very mangled, absolutely destroyed) photograph, should I or should I not submit this to the portal?
VicariousE
It's a good point, you'd have to hail an art mod. If you had shot the subject matter yourself, might be a lot more legit. I've got music (and art) I cobbled together for my old TV show, and I don't feel like it's something I could submit to the audio portal for the same reason :/