Hello LMAC and Hive members. I wanted to share with you my current freestyle collage whose theme entails the watchers after dark. Often, after dark is a scary situation when venturing into an unfamiliar environment.
For those not accustomed to venturing out at night such as myself, I conjure up all types of mishaps that might occur. Among those mishaps are unsavory individuals or animals meant to do me harm. Those feelings are intensified in the dark. I can only imagine being stranded and help isn't available, such as you vehicle breaking down alongside a road.
Now, I'm venturing into a short story fiction as I usually do when imagining certain scenarios and visions just around the next corner or behind you. But I'll save that for another design.
My style of collage is a Freestyle. Although I usually do, I wasn't required to utilize any contest photo in my design. However, if you'd like to join in visit: # Let's Make a Collage - A Contest for All Creatives on Hive - Round 246 - ✨50 HIVE in the Prize Pool!.
In preparing my theme, I envisioned incorporating various elements that represent the nighttime environment. Of course, scary sounds are prominent. Spider webs that one might run into are an easy element to incorporate into the design.
I utilized one of my pure fractals to represent this. My particular fractal, however, has several different colors. Another free-sourced image I used to represent a gigantic web was a plaited rope. Imagine getting caught in that and sensing what arachnid would come rushing out to greet you. Scary, to say the least. For the eye, I wanted it to flow red.
I utilized Canva to blend the different type images. Below are my steps in which I began with a blank, white canvas, then added layers of elements, removing backgrounds, detaching elements from their backgrounds, resizing, duplicating, colorizing, and repositioning items as needed incorporating the tools at my disposal in my Annual Pro Membership Subscription.
Below are the images I included to complete my theme.
| Item | Contributor | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Female Silhouette in red | Pixabay | Link |
| Crow at night in woods | Pixabay | Link |
| Orange Rope | Pixabay | Link |
| Brown Flower scrapbook page | Pixabay | Link |
| Brown tree limb | Pixabay | Link |
| Cobra | Contributed to #LIL by  @agmoore | Link |
| Blue Eye | Contributed to #LIL by  @alex2alex | Link |
| Purple Flower | Contributed to #LIL by  @mariale07 | Link |
| Hand with eye in center | Contributed to #LIL by  @quantumg | Link |
| Pure Fractal Titled "Red Flowers" |  @justclickindiva | Link |
| Pure Fractal titled "Fan Hut" | @justclickindiva | Link |
| Bomomo-Abstract blue and brown lines | @justclickindiva | Link |
| Brown scrapbook paper background | Pixabay | Link |
Below is my completed collage:
Thanks for your visit. I appreciate it. I hope you like my freestyle collage theme.
It is imperative that you read the post LMAC School - Public Domain Picture sources (Free Materials for creating collages) by
| What is Let's Make a Collage? | It is a photography and collage contest where entries can be submitted. |
|---|---|
| Who created the contest? | @quantumg is the contest owner. |
| What type of contest is it? | This Contest utilizes a single photo provided by the contest owner as the basis for you to create your own photo collages by adding to the photo provided. |
| What are the rules? | 1. Use as your starting point for your collage the photography provided by the contest owner. It is located on the contest owner's post for free use without any copyright protection. |
| 2. Entries are required to be posted to the LMAC community and must contain a link to the contest post. | |
3. Entries need to set the LMAC account ( @lmac) as 20% beneficiary to be eligible for the dynamic component of the prize pool.; | |
| 4. Extra support with the LMAC trail to all collages where LIL assets have been included AND the respective LIL-contributors set as 2% beneficiaries; | |
| 5. By submitting your contribution you agree that your artwork remains public domain and that it can be copied, modified and distributed, even for commercial purposes, without requiring further permission. | |
| 6. Any graphical element that is added to the photography either needs to be your own original work (e.g. own artwork or photography) OR needs to derive from sites whitelisted by LMAC. | |
| 7. IMPORTANT: Indicate the source of all materials used in your accompanying post. Otherwise your entry can NOT be put up for the final vote. | |
| 8. All sort of editing, modification and/or manipulation is allowed as long as no copyright is affected. | |
| What do you win? | Prizes listed on the contest owner's post. |
Good luck everyone with whatever your endeavors.
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SOURCES:
a) JustClickindiva's Footer created in Canva utilizing its free background and images used with permission from discord admins.
b) Unless otherwise noted, all photos taken by me with my (i) Samsung Galaxy 10" Tablet, (ii) Samsung Phone, & (iii) FUJI FinePix S3380 - 14 Mega Pixels Digital Camera
c) Purple Butterfly part of purchased set of Spiritual Clip Art for my Personal Use
d) All Community logos, banners, page dividers used with permission of Discord Channel admins.
e) Ladies of Hive banner used with permission of and in accordance with the admin's guidelines
f) Thumbnail Image created by me in Canva.
g) "Flames." What is Apophysis 2.09. https://flam3.com/
English is my native language.
If translation included, I use DeepL to assist my readers.
Thanks for your patience an understanding.
