No sleep make me go something something

[Gr8t100]

Well, not much of any sleep today, what else is new. Spent majority of the night out with friends, stopped at wal-mart, came back to my apt to find the water not working, and worked on this in photoshop.

It's of a friend I know, this piece is based on a overlay image, done in photoshop 7. This was mainly for fun. Anywho, here it is.

http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v67/gr8t100/girl.jpg

[Gumdrop]

I like this. The squiggly-ness of it is great, and I dig the colours. Do you have any more done like this?

[Gr8t100]

Thanks man, I appreaciate the comments. I see myself going back and working on this some more, maybe do one w/o color and some strong contrast.

Here is another version of the similiar style. It was a personal piece, but I've come to realize that the only person who truely understood it was me, so I just have it sitting somewhere in a comp folder.

Anywho, here it is though.

http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v67/gr8t100/final.jpg

Thanks for taking interest. I just want to make it clear for others viewing this thread that the images you see are paint-overs of already existing images, so majority of the work was done by using the history brush in photoshop 7.

Naturally, I prefer working from my own photos (such as the top) where the bottom one was actually from a porn site, so I try to stay away from outside sources as much as possible when doing such image manipulations as you see above. For copyright and personal reasons.

[TheDirtSyndicate]

whoa. that last piece is great.
beautiful work. i love the colors.
was that all traditional?

[Gr8t100]

Thanks for the comment, it was created with the brushes supplied to me from the "Photoshop 7 WOW! Book." While it's a bit pricey ($50-$60) it's totally worth it. Only thing I have a gripe with, which is a personal thing, is that I hate having to use somebody else's images to create something to showcase as mine. Even though I am more then willing to give full credit, and if possible contact the source, I still feel guilt from doing so. However being I own a dig. camera, that problem is fading away, thankfully.

As far as the brushes used, being more specific, they were an oil based brush, and an acrylic brush. There's also water color, stipple, and I believe one or two more which I can't remember which they are exactly. It's pretty handy.