I don't know if this can be called art, but I had fun exploring photoshop filters. Have you tried taking an image or painting and throw at it different filters just to see what happens. I guess this can happen only to newbies like. Although the final result is nothing special, the prosses was really fun !
1.Started with a normal photo!
And I am sure you will never guess what was the initial image I started with :D
It was a pretty normal old photo of me, before I grow beard. The photo is taken in an acting class. We were putting a piece from Alan Ayckbourn, called "Tons of money". Here is the photo:
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2. Wave and some other random filters.
I had no idea, what I am going to do, just started trying different PS filters till I see something interesting.
The first stop that I fount interesting was this distorted image. I remember using the "wave" filter and some others:
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3. Copy, Paste, Horizontal Flip, Drawing and Neural filters.
Then I thought, Ha, this head looks like Alien, lets play some more. Then I doubled the head, filled some missing part, draw a coat, gave it some fancy neural style filters and got this ugly thing:
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- Another strange thing.
Then I saw this is getting more and more stupid and started something else that ended in this image, witch eventually ended as the purple background in the Final Yoda :D
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5. More editing, more neural filters, some hue and levels and..
We got what you saw at the beginning of this post. Can't say I am proud with this art, but the process was fun, and if you can share some encouragement or critique, I can take them ;)
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6. Some real art after all.
For those of you that were searching art and didn't found it, I will give you some, from Polyxena's secret stash of unpublished pieces:
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If you have read till the end
I have a secret engagement task for you:
Give me your definition of Art! :) or post something that is not art.
Good luck and have fun!