I was very enthused when he got in contact and offered to do a collaboration with me. We sent each other an artpiece and were both meant to take them and modify them in our own styles. No rules were stipulated. He took my image "Self-observance" and created this.
Then it was my turn... I hope you like the somewhat different direction I took his piece into... ;)
What I did:
Here is the piece Daniel sent me, entitled "Flying With Cats":
Now, my process was a bit odd here... I started backwards, by trying to think of a different title first. When "Dying with Cats" popped into my mind, I had almost a complete idea of what I was going to do.
First, I needed to make those limbs look awkward. Easily done. (I left the cats alone... They already seemed kinda flattened to me, as though they'd fallen from a great height). I also grey-scaled the image.
I then used JWildFire to produce a few fractal blood splatters, chose two of them, and went to work, copy-pasting, and erasing with different levels of opacity. You can see the process here:
And voila.... "Dying with Cats" was done:
My only reservation was that, when I was done, it seemed like I had put maybe a bit too much blood. But every time I took any away, it just didn't look right, so I ended up leaving it all ;P
Thanks, Eugene, for offering to collaborate with me! It was a lot of fun. And it was also the first time I'd done a collaboration =) ... I'm hoping we'll do more in the future.
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