Soul Eater
The Inspiration
Garbage is one of my favourite things in life. Discarded tidbits, read not timbits, wherever my eye spots them. Thousands of photographs. Some really wild shots that I loved. Many mediocre ones. Enough are absolute trash, just like the trash subject matter. I would delete everything except the good shots and some that were mediocre, which I use as reference for carving miniature sculptures at times.
Before joining Hive, I never took my photography seriously. It was always a backseat base player to showcase my sculptures in the fine art world that I used to be a part of. If it wasn’t that, photography was playtime, or saving me drawing time. Be a good little workhorse camera and be a fun toy. Nothing more.
Digital art is all new to me as of this year. I’ve never done it before. Being on Hive inspired me, seeing so many digital art pieces that were interesting and beautifully created. Whole new world. I had to shift my way of seeing to create digital art. It boggled my mind a bit at first. So many options. So many styles. Where am I in that? I have no idea what I’m doing. Same thing with NFT’s. What’s all that? I’ve learned, with some bumps and blips.
I see my photos in a whole new light now. They are a great source of inspiration to create digital art with. Ones that would typically hit the recycling bin hard, utter trash. I rather enjoy hitting the delete button. Now I keep photos I’d trash because I see something in them that moves me to create a piece of digital art.
"Soul Eater" is the second in the series “Beyond the Veil” and is an exploration into the unseen world. A hidden glimpses of things cloaked behind the curtain. A dark vision of what feeds on human energy and souls.Source Photo
The Process
This is the only photo I used to create Soul Eater, completely unedited. This is a photo of a discarded black garbage bag that I found lying on grass after a heavy rain. I took several macro shots of it. None of them are usable as a photograph, they’re all trash photos, but I kept them for whenever, whatever I wanted to create. Garbage is glorious. Imagination is all that is required.
This particular one stood out to me. I could see a face in it. I liked the tones of blue-greys, the contrasts, the way the water droplets looked. A couple of weeks ago, I was looking through some photos for something else and stumbled across it. An urge to work on a digital art piece using it came from nowhere, so I just acted on it. All elements and colours are derived from the source photo. I created Soul Eater using Photoshop. I used five additional layers comprising elements cloned from the source photo, which I altered and blended into the base layer. The rest was completed using various brushes and hand painting.
I don’t take in process screenshots because it completely interferes with my creative process. When I create digital art, I don’t do a step by step process. I work very intuitively and loosely all over the whole piece at once. It’s a similar approach as that of actual painting.
“Soul Eater” is part of the collection, “Beyond the Veil” and will be minted into a single edition NFT. A full size image of Soul Eater is included as a downloadable with the purchase of the NFT.
Available for purchase on NFT Showroom:SOUL EATER
All photos taken by Nine with a Pentax digital 35mm camera and 90mm Tamron macro lens.
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I'm so a fan of this hahah :D love the silver tone and contrast! it really feels this man is gonna eat my sould lol really awesome!
LOLOL, thank you @ailindigo! I seem to be going in a dark direction with this series.
I find that second one mildly (more than mildly) disturbing to be honest.
That's all, enough said.
(Creativity might come in handy on the WE this weekend.)
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THE SOUL EATER!!!!!!!!!
runs away screaming to hide
I do not think it's disturbing to be honest. Your infatuation with garbage however, quite disturbing, have I introduced you to @Brandt?
If you were disturbed by it I'd say, "Where's @dandays, who is this imposter??!"
You don't have an appreciation for the sublime subterfuge of garbage hunting, you're too much of a bloomin' pink princess that has to have everything served up on rose tinted silver trays, no muss no fuss, not even cookie crumbs, just Get out!
@brandt, @otherbrant, @ @ @ I lost count @.
Just call him Brandy.
Is that like candy?
garbage garbage !GARBAGE
and thanks for stopping by, lol, to whip it good
It's cool that you take these way-out shots and turn them into art.
Seeing the face that stands out to you is called Face pareidolia apparently, same as when we look like a pattern in wood or carpet and see eyes, noses, and mouths. Human eyes and minds have a tendency to seek to identify persons or faces.
Decades ago, people were skeptical and paranoid, they might have said that you suffer from a form of psychosis. Yet, this trait is actually common in humans. This trait allows us to quickly notice predators as well as quickly notice persons to socialize with.
Yes, it is called pareidolia. I didn't know there was a specific name Face Pareidolia. I see all kinds of things, always have. I know others who do as well. Interesting what you've said about it.
Thanks for checking out my post and leaving me your thoughts!
Perhaps it is even something that is better/enhanced/different in artists? The ability too see something in something and then bring it to the fore.
Like a sculptor looking at stone and bringing forth shapes.
I really don't know if that is the case. I'd say it has more to do with how much one has developed their imagination and kept that alive.
Both the original one and the art are definitely one of a kind, I love it! I'm currently learning how to do fractal art, the best ones I got so far are a demon in flames, a spider, and some comets :) ...
Thanks, although, I still think the source photo is crap every time I look at it 😂
I know nothing about fractal art. That's cool, do you have a link so I can see?
Thanks for checking out my post! 😊
🤣 I'm quite sure your source is in a landfill by now 😂...
And here's the spider:
The demon one is a cover image for one of the Just Down The Road posts. I'll have to look for it :)
Those are all interesting. My favourite is the golden divide and the spider. What do you use to create them?
Apophysis, I'll look up the link soon. There's a 3D edition too, but I have yet to try that.
Thanks for the name, I can find it from that. I'll look at the 3D edition also. Sounds like fun!
Someone said the 3D version is really slow unless you have a high end computer. Still, fractal art is fun 🙌
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Yes, it would take more RAM to run it. It sure looks like fun!
It really is fun :) Please tag me if you post any :)
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I'm all up in another digital piece now, not fractals, but it will be a bit before it's finished. I most certainly will tag you if I can get the fractal thing figured out to fractal. 😂
What are you working on now??? You have me curious 😂
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😂Too funny! Welllllll.........
It's the third in this series. Inspired by some very tiny life forms I've been researching for a while combined with a photo I took that I again, saw this "creature" in that made me think of one those tiny life forms, so it's loosely based around that. No garbage bags this time, the photo is more "thin air", if you want to puzzle play with that 😉, can't give the story away before it's published. Probably will be a few weeks or so, much more hand painting in this new one.
Nice 🙌 It sounds like it's not very "concrete" yet 😂
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LOL, the basic form has been layed out, still adding to that, then on to the details. It will tell me when it's done cooking in the oven.
That's some good lookin' garbage right there.
I'd pick it up if I could, but times are tough and it's hard enough to put !BEER on the table every night these days.
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Right on! I knew you'd appreciate my garbage tastes. If you saw the troves of garbage here, you'd be stunned at the fact that you could outfit a house and all you needed from the pickings and there'd still be more left over.
I was walking around today and looking at garbage as I walked (way too much to pick it all up) and saw a pair of jeans, don't know what happened to the guy that was in them, maybe he jetted to outer space.
Thanks for appreciating with your dark heart love of garbage! 😁
note to self, go photo more garbage
Normally when you see clothes lying on the ground without any people in them that means you just missed the rapture and are going to hell.
I guess that's why we're both still here isn't it? I heard the rapture was seriously over-rated.
Yeah. Hell's gonna be a party, can't wait.
Get your flame thrower attachment belt, lock and load, this shite's about to get heavy.
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Interpretation is in the eyes of the beholder...
Is that what they say about art/photography?
Here is the face I see...
A Politician...
I interpret it to be a politician based on the name you have given.
Soul Eater
Or Fraudster
Or Demons
Or Crooks
Or Liars
Or Shysters
Etc.
That's pretty much what I'd like, people to interpret based on their perspective and maybe expand on what their experience of it is, otherwise, I'm left in mysteryland, LOL.
You're dead on with picking out the face. I like your interpretation, it covers many bases and well, you're on the mark with where you went there.
Thanks for checking out my latest attempt at digital art! 😁
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