A little while ago, I met @debart here on Steemit. We've since done three collaborations together (which you can see here, here, and here) and we're planning to do more.

This is another one of those collaborations, and I'm very pleased with how it came out. Instead of taking his image and manipulating/merging it with my own style, I created a piece from scratch using his and @opheliafu's collaboration as an inspiration. I quite surprised myself with this, I gotta say =)

"The Square"

Max. Print Size: 21" x 21"

What I did:

Here are the two pieces done by Daniel and Ophelia respectively:

"As One"

"The Triangle"

So the first thing I knew was, I have had zero experience in drawing figures. I could have even attempted it but I have yet to buy one of those digital drawing pens/boards, so all I have is my mouse. How did I get the figures...? I cheated ;P ... I did all sorts of googling, looking for contortionists, and then traced their outlines... After that, some puppet transform and wave filtering in Photoshop got me the twisted figures that I had had in mind.

The rest was just selection tool and 20% opacity eraser =) :

The main reason I ended up doing this was because when I saw Ophelia and Daniel collaboration, with the two pieces being a circle and a triangle, I was reminded of the symbolism of the square, triangle and circle... Pain, pleasure and eternity. So I just had to do the pain part of the triptych! =) ... I'm actually not sure anymore where I read that about these shapes' symbolism... I think it was in Frank Herbert's Dune. (My favourite science fiction series.)

Thank you, Eugene and Ophelia, for the inspiration to get out of my comfort zone for a bit. I actually almost gave up on this piece several times, which is why I'm posting this a few hours later than my usual time.

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"The Square" | Inspired by the Collaboration between @debart and @opheliafu

"The Square"

What I did: