Basking

Concept final piece

Mythical creature

Chimera

This was when I was still deciding what path to choose. I cut out a snake, lion and goat and merged them together like the Chimera. I grey scaled them to make the merging easier (which I could've done another way now) and then coloured it like I did with Mrs. Big Lipped. 

Headless Horseman

I don't like the pixelated flames nor the colour of the background. Infact I hardly even like this photomontage. The background could've been more dramatic.
It's all so copied and pasted. Nothing is alive or real here.

Monsters

Mrs. Big Lipped

This was my second creation. It's rather simple I created this. I enlarged my lips and used a black pen tool to create the eyes, then used my iris and enlarged them. Afterwards used the common trick of duplicating the picture and layering it transparent over the original. Then I added different colours and gaussian blur. 

Zapper

 

The origin of this one is pretty funny though. I was on a skype call warping faces of Jim Carry and Nicolas cage. I tried to recreate my friends character and out popped this guy. At first we were laughing and then we realized this guy had a fantastic design! 

It's called Zapper because the character it was based off was called Zap.

Skin and bones

Skin and bones

The original

I was just practicing morphing the face using the new skill I learnt; Layer Masking and Liquifying. I was watching a tutorial on how to morph an animal face into a person. I didn't like the results, so I looked for inspiration for my new techniques. I found a photo manipulated picture of a woman with a skull jaw, and the universe in her eye. It gave me inspiration. So I inked the red eyes, liquified the cheek bones like a skull and using the mask layer I applied a skulls teeth. This I think shows my improvement. It all looks very real and dynamic. 

 Filtered

 This is my favorite filter. It sort of reminds me of a gorilla that found it's way out of a horror movie and to your front door. It's certainly the scariest of the bunch.

Fun

Railroad

This was just a random mess of madness. I tried to create a rail word face inspired by Moppaa's work (see bellow) but unfortunately this is just terrible. Yes it does look weird like the rest, but I clearly didn't know what I was doing. You can see my chin and the railroad was just a bit to clear. I think I could've added a bit more color to it at least. 

Cartoon Me

Using a photograph I turned myself into a cartoon using the smudge tool, but leaving my top just the same. I also added a black line around it like cartoons. I'm pretty pleased with it but at the same time it just looked like a blurred out mess. 

Potato Head

Now this one I really do like. My friends were mesmerized by this piece. I think the quality of the hands could've been better (I didn't know about the mask layer at the time) because they look rather cut and pasted. Despite this flaw the actual face, presentation and design is rather brilliant. It looks so real and disturbing. It is possibly one of the best I ever created but it isn't one of my personal favorites. 

ONE

Now this was a piece I did for fun, and lead me to try more photo manipulated monsters with myself. This is a monster from Pan's Labyrinth. As soon as I saw this monster I fell in love with the concept. It was so imaginative and so creepy. So out of appreciation I manipulated myself to look like him. Despite not knowing the techniques I know now, this actually turned out really nice. Most of this was copying and pasting, then using a soft eraser to smooth it all in. I of course darkened the mouth as well. This is my first piece and still possibly one of my favorites. 

Moppaa

I'm completely in love with this DeviantArt artists work and his illustrations for children horror stories. All I know is his job and that he lives in Russia. There is not biographical information on him as of yet but I still love his work. They usually feel like portraits, only disturbing and full of monsters.

He makes these from his own resources and then he manipulates them onto photoshop, creating the most disturbing work imaginable. I love the concept of this photograph. It reminds me of pollution, and perhaps the figure being death. It maybe seeing the whole city, everyone, as horrible people and sinners. I assume this because in the background there is a cross. He looks like he could be drooling a river or train rail lines from his mouth but it's rather unclear. The emotion I feel from this is pure hatred and disturbance. For his technique, I'm guessing he used greyscale (with a tint of color) and a photo of a city as well as a picture of enlarged teeth.

I'd love to pick out another photoshop image of his but I don't think I could. My brain is literally battling itself and screaming at the fact there's to many fantastic works to pick from and write about. 

Link to his DeviantArt account http://moppaa.deviantart.com

Albert Fish

This may not look as pleasing as the rest of my pieces, but it was the one that inspired me the most. It gave me the idea to follow the route of Moppaa and photo manipulation. I love the unneat cut out head. It just gives it it's personality.