19: Tribute To

Kaptain Kobold, originally uploaded by gingerpig2000.

Today we had to choose someone in the group who had inspired us, so I chose 'Kaptain Kobold' as his work was similar in some ways to my interests and he also encouraged me by comenting on my images.

I had to select one of his images and re-shoot it. I enjoyed the opportunity to hand draw the background and the boxes, as it gives photography more flexibility when you can actually draw in your own content. On the flip side, it is a lot more work to design the strip and then to take all the pictures and then render them down to a useful format.

6: What Mood Are You In?

I really need to get out and go somewhere, shuttling between work and home is no life if you are looking for inspiration. It is also a struggle trying to do the simplest things with a program you are as yet unsure about, such as Gimp, which would not let me draw a simple circle.

I started with a green background with just the facial parts, but then decided to dump the green and go for this cartoony image, reminiscent of the kind of drawings I have seen made by inmates of prisoner of war camps.

4: The Kissing Project

This one was complex to process, having to cut and paste images, and I did not have enough time to do anything about the colour balance between images. The top right image is also out of focus, again that lack of time to achieve that professional finish - but is that really important? If you could achieve a professional finish given the right equipment and time, but lack one or both of them, is it not better to invest the available time in the basic concept behind the image?

Like yesterday, it is a four shot collage, but this time in a balanced square format to try and give it the feeling of a cartoon that the images suggest. If I have the time I would like to take a copy, shrink it down to a quarter area and paste that in place of the the emptier top-left image, and then do the same with that image.