"The Hanged Man (Ending)"

"The Hanged Man (Ending)"

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Two variations of a digital collage made in GIMP with a picture from pexels.com and a tarot art motive from wikimedia commons (public domain), representing the Hanged Man ending from the videogame "Who's Lila?" by Garage Heathen. I used the dithering option in GIMP to get the ditherpunk effect.

Further thoughts below the cut:

This one really felt like being hit over the head with inspiration; I saw the picture of what is the background in this piece and was immediately like "Hanged Man Ending!" and then found the Hanged Man tarot art and they just - fit. So well.

It took a couple tries and iterations to get it exactly how I wanted it to be, but I am really happy about how this piece turned out.

Fun fact, I tried to use the 'Tomiho' color palette for the first version of the pic. As a treat for the fans of the game.

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"You Do Not Belong Here"

Two digital color alterations made in GIMP of screenshots from "The Oldest View" by Kane Pixels on Youtube, which includes the Julien Reverchon Giant artpiece made by Kevin Obregon.

Additional thoughts below the cut:

Similar in style to the movie poster mockup I did, these ones actually came first and were the practice works for the final poster(s). I have a collage variation of these two in particular that I might eventually post as well.

They work well to emulate a style that the video series itself uses, that is, showing monochromatic humans in a green-ish, natural (forest) environment. So I simply used a similar concept for both Wyatt and the Giant, but added a contour around them to further make them stand out.

I really enjoyed making these, they were among the first things I made when I got back into GIMP.

Hi everyone!

So I recently rediscovered GIMP and making collage art when I was sick a few weeks ago. I hadn't touched it in years and didn't expect much to come of it, but I actually ended up making a couple things that I feel good enough about to share.

For now, I plan to purely use this as an art blog to post my stuff (and, if I am lucky, to get into conversations with other fans of the same media/people with similar interests). I have a small backlog of stuff to post, afterwards, we'll just see how this goes. This is very much a work in progress atm.

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"Untitled Album/Song Cover Art #1"

Digital collage made in GIMP with a stock photo from pexels.com.

Further thoughts beneath the cut:

So I guess I accidentally designed an album/song/playlist cover. Huh. Its not a color scheme or style I would normally gravitate towards, but I like how it turned out nonetheless. Kinda retro, kinda surrealist. Also goes to show just how far one can get with a single stock photo.

Originally kinda inspired by the song cover for "Leave" by Kane Pixels, but the stockphoto didn't quite work for that and it instead turned into its own thing halfway through.

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"Aesthetic - Poolcore + Dithering + Turquoise/Cerulean"

Aesthetic/moodboard made in GIMP with stock images from pexels.com. Uses the dithering option in GIMP and has a main focus on the colors of turquoise/cerulean.

Additional thoughts below the cut:

Inspired by the Cerulean Waves Mall playlist on Youtube, which I listened to while making this. I also wanted to see if I could use the dithering filter/effect I used while making my "Who's Lila?" artwork for other things, and this is pretty much the polar opposite in terms of colors and style. So I am very happy how this turned out, the colors are very pretty imo.

"Who's Lila? -Wheeliam" aesthetic/moodboard

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Aesthethic/Moodboard made with GIMP using stock images from pexels.com for the character "Wheeliam" of the videogame "Who's Lila?" by Garage Heathen. Both the game and this piece of art make use of 'dithering'.

Additional thoughts beneath the cut:

I feel so sorry for Wheeliam and I also love the imagery and scenery of when the players gets to meet and interact with him, so I decided to make a moodboard for him. Again, part of challenging myself to do so only with stockpics. I quite like it.

Also, random sidenote, but there weren't a lot of sycamore stock pics on pexels; I had kinda hoped for showing a whole tree but alas, I think this still gets the point across. Bonus fun fact, 'sycamore' has apparently been applied to different types of trees (source: wikipedia). Huh.