Three Lips With Sticks

Lips On Sticks

They fit better with the lollipop lips series that I worked on a while back (Surreal Lips and Stage Lips, Feb 08). Instead of floating in the sky, they now sway on very long lollipop sticks.

Three Lips

Three Lips

I am still in re-hash mode. I have used the lips import yet again (Lips, Feb 08). This time without the lollipop stick. These are floating lips in a blue-gray textured sky. Maybe they are flying in formation. I wonder what they would look like with long sticks.

Headdress

Headdress


Headdress 2

I played around with a couple of different backgrounds for these two ArtRages. The "headdress" areas are just random abstract shapes. I added the three quarter profile layer (Three Quarter, Mar 08) then flipped and tilted it down a bit in the transform layer option.

Flower Power

Petals

This ArtRage is brighter than many I have been working on lately. Maybe it is the sunshine and nicer walking weather. This one reuses the lower profile from an earlier digital artwork called "Shoulder" (Two New Lower Profiles, Jan 08). It is an imported layer that I flipped horizontally in the transform layer option. The "flower petals" are also duplicates that I flipped both horizontally and vertically to get four identical shapes.

Saint

Saint

Another "Three Quarter" face with tube lines in an under layer. It has a bit of a nun's habit look that reminds me of an old favorite - "Song of Bernadette." It reminds me of the end of the movie when the bitter old nun realizes the suffering of Bernadette and carries her around before she dies. Gets me every time.

Another Three Quarter Face

Three Quarter Alt.


Background Three Quarter Alt.

Another version of "Three Quarter" from a few days ago (Three Quarter, Mar 08). This one has a simple, warm background with two imported layers of the earlier face. One is a transparency of only 60% while the upper layer of the face is at 100%; both are partially erased out so the under layers show.

Disturbing Face

Disturb

Getting a bit darker again with the imagery. Somewhere in there is the face from an earlier image called "Forward" (Forward, Jan 08). I added black paint around the features and made an under layer with the paint tube feature on ArtRage, similar to "Caged" (Caged - Using Tube of Paint, Feb 08) only with a different mood.

Three Quarter

Three Quarter

This ArtRage is much more painterly than many of my other faces. It is more female as well. I am also stressing the black and white of the lips less. It has a sadness that the others do not have; it is more about the eyes. It reminds me of a girl that I have seen a couple of times at the local Target. She wears makeup like a goth, porcelain doll.

Lips Again

Lips With Lines


Porcupine

Back to lip exports for these two ArtRages. They are more about texture and dark values this time. I think I will try more of the hole punch lips.

Tilt

Tilt

I am not in love with this image or the one before, but I do not feel done with them either. I keep bringing this unfocused-eyed face back and working on it. I started "Tilt" with another face underneath and brought in the exported layer from the ArtRage done earlier (Gray, Mar 08).

Gray

Gray

Pulled out the old forward face from a while back (Forward, Jan 08). Mixed up some gray colors and lots of layers. I like the balance of whites, blacks, and grays. There is a bit of a hairdo thing going that reminds me of Gary Oldman's in The Fifth Element.

More Profiles - This Time in the Desert

Desert


Desert 2

Here are two side profiles added to an abstract ArtRage that reminds me of the desert. The yellow gold in the abstract looks good with the yellows in the reversed profiles. The second version may look better than the first because the larger profile on the right has better contrast around the features. However, I do like the first one's overall look; the movement of the patterns is nice.

Stage Lips

Stage Lips

The lollipop lips on a stick from the earlier "Pops" (Surreal Lips, Feb 08) made me try the stage idea again. This one is low key (darker values) and very layered. At first the stage was more realistic. It needed roughing up.

Double Profile

Double


Three

I was just playing with a new abstraction and decided to add my old profile (Two New Lower Profiles, Jan 08) and forward portrait (Forward, Jan 08) from my earlier ArtRages. I like the effect of the background face showing through in "Three." I added some of the golden color from the profiles as a layer in the forward face by using the eye-dropper feature.

Surreal Lips

Pops


Pale


Tissue Box Floral

Here is a series of three, high-key lip ArtRages that I did this evening. My favorite is "Pops." It looks a bit like lollipops on a stage, while the red candy invokes the visual cliche' of rosy cheeks on a face. There is a strange French mine thing going on that I like. The sticks are just lines of the paint tube feature going behind the lips.

"Tissure Box Floral" is my answer to all of the Kleenix tissues that we have been going through this cold season.

Caged - Using Tube of Paint

Caged

"Caged" uses the same half-portrait that two of my earlier ones did (Still On Forward Faces, Feb 08). This one has texture from the tube-of-paint feature (reminds me of a basket). The bluish-green comes from the air gun feature in ArtRage on another layer. I like the textures showing through on the bridge of the nose.

Silly Lips

Dressing Gown

"Dressing Gown" is an ArtRage that I did a while back for fun; however, tonight, I decided to add some lips to it. The effect is comic with a twist. At first, I tried positioning the lips all over the place with differing sizes. It didn't work until I went for "literal" lips. The misplacement in terms of anatomy is strange because the "face" seems so serious even if the lips are out of place.

My love of the show Project Runnway must be coming out.

Lips

Grass Lips


Flounce Lips

Here are a couple of abstracts with black and white lips done with ArtRage. The lips are for a Flash animation that I have been working on for a Media Production class. I used a photo of lips as a 50% transparency with black and white lip shapes underneath. The black upper lip and the whtie lower lip correspond with my earlier portraits.

More Forwards

Neck


Disappear

Here a two ArtRage artworks using the face from "Forward" (Forward, Jan 08). This time I cropped them at the nose. "Neck" is a straight import with only one layer besides the abstract underneath. "Disappear," which I called "Inferno" when I made it tonight, uses the double face technique described in tonight's earlier post. "Neck" feels a little military to me, perhaps because of the darker blue-greens.

Still On Forward Faces

Horizon


Blue Circle

Here are a couple of cropped forward faces using the face of an earlier work (Forward, Jan 08). I get the semi-transparent look by importing the face and making a duplicate. I make the first face semi-transparent so the abstract underlayer shows through, while keeping the duplicate face at 100%. I erase areas of the duplicate so the semi-transparent layer below shows through. I leave the brow and lips alone so they stay black and white. The faces are different colors because of the layer below.

Forward

Forward


Automaton 1


Automaton 2

I wasn't satisfied with the past bunch of faces that I attempted. They needed the jawline, neck, and hint of shoulders. This latest bunch are not there yet, but I am getting closer. They eyes are not looking in the same direction. I think I like that. Not sure yet. On "Forward," I decided to start another face on the same background that I used for the first lower profile piece (Not Sure Which Face, Dec 07).

The two automatons are the same in the faces; the only difference is I transposed the abstract background by flipping it horizontally and vertically. The holes that I erased out of the face layers show different colors behind them. I like the hat effects for these two. Compositionally, I like the second one best.

I need to figure out how to tag these blogs. ArtRage, Paint Software, Digital Art should all go on there.

Two Attempts

Twins


Shades


Ocean Breeze

These two were a bit of a struggle this evening. I tried a three-quarter profile that just wouldn't come together, "Twins." Finally, I tried this face and got a comic effect where the two negative spaces in the light aqua blue areas suggested eyes, "Shades." I think I prefer the original abstract.

Two New Lower Profiles

Shoulder


Breeze

Two more of the ArtRage profiles. I used the profiles from "Lower Face" (Not Sure Which Face, Dec o7) and "Speed Racer" (A Better Speed Racer, Jan 08) as import layers. The profiles all look alike since they are variations of the first lower profile. Can't say for certain, but I think that I am done with this series. I think I will start sketching some other portrait views for a while. If I ever print this series, I may show them with the original abstracts. I enjoyed the cut and paste aspects of these works. The Transform Layer feature on the Edit bar came in handy.

Helmet

Helmet



Black and White


Still working on the lower-profile group of digital artworks. "Helmet" uses the profile I drew for "Rising Moon." I brought it down and used the existing white lines on the abstract background that I had worked on a week or so ago. I get a feeling of a slick motor cyclist from the early days of racing. The white line on the far left looks like a hunched shoulder much like a person on a motor cycle would have.



I am posting the original abstract design along with "Helmet" to show how I changed it to fit with the face.

Profile Three - Rising Moon

Rising Moon

Another profile added to a previous abstract (Downloaded ArtRage 2 - Nov 07). I added the face by using the import to layer feature on the File menu. I then transformed it to make it lower in order to add a bit more nose. I needed to erase out the white from the transfer so the under layer would show through. The pink and black vertical shape looks a bit like a tree trunk with a large face-moon behind it.

A Better Speed Racer

Speed Racer

I wasn't satisfied with the profile on the first "Speed Racer," so I used the same profile from the earlier "Lower Face" (Not Sure Which Face Dec 07) as a template and used it as a layer. The features in the original digital artwork were also on layers, so I made them invisible by clicking off the "eye." I was able to use the same colors by using the eye dropper feature. The Nike chin has been softened, but, overall, I like it better. The speed skater hood is still there; it is more defined now.

Speed Racer

Speed Racer

This one is a profile similar to the one I did a couple of days ago. Or was it yesterday? I have been working on these during the day and again at night so I am off on what day I have done what. This ArtRage piece is a combination of a landscape that I turned upside down and numbered (earlier blog post "Back to Numbers" Dec 07) along with the addition of the profile. The title is a reference to the leotards that speed skaters wear during competitions. I see a Nike symbol on the chin as I write this. I think I will continue combining the landscapes with faces since I like the feeling of outside space that I am starting to get.

Flames Two

Flames Two

I didn't like all of the dark around the face in "Flames," so I decided to rework the background. This is more Rock-a-Billy with the 80's hairdo. I used a comb looking stencil with the purple lifted from the face using the eye dropper feature. The look on this face is more confrontational than the first version's.

Flames With Pallet Knife

Flames

Still doing the illustrative faces thing. This one is very passive, resigned. I didn't try for realistic eyes. One is a spiral and the other is a mass of darks with a light spot rubbed out with the pallet knife. I did the spikes of light with the edge setting on the pallet knife.