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Patterns (as PNGs) of The Rolling Giant from Kane Pixels' "The Oldest View" on Youtube, made with screenshots in GIMP. The Julien Reverchon Giant was originally made by Kevin Obregon.

This is from my phase of finding out how to make patterns and becoming a little bit obsessed with making them. The intention was to make some stuff that fans could potentially use for a fanpage or blogs, for example as backgrounds. I got a bit lost in the various filters and options in GIMP as well lol.

"Annihilation - The Deer"

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Digital collage made in GIMP. Inspired by the deer-creature(s) from the movie adaptation of "Annihilation" by Jeff Vandermeer. Made with stock images from pexels.com.

I originally didn't plan on posting this separately and only using it in a 'Annihilation' moodboard/aesthetic (that I haven't posted yet), but then looked through my files and decided to clean it up a bit and actually give it its own post.

Again, this is partly meant to look artistic, part realistic - the branches are from a stock photo but edited so they look almost hand-drawn, and almost as if they are sprouting from the deer's head. The branches make the deer look very alien but regal, just like the ones from the movie did.

Still not quite sure what to make with the text(s) on these pieces however. I'm not sure topography and choosing fonts is gonna be one of my strengths. But the pic looked a bit unfinished without some text imo.

"Annihilation - The Deer"

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Digital collage made in GIMP. Inspired by the deer-creature(s) from the movie adaptation of "Annihilation" by Jeff Vandermeer. Made with stock images from pexels.com.

I originally didn't plan on posting this separately and only using it in a 'Annihilation' moodboard/aesthetic (that I haven't posted yet), but then looked through my files and decided to clean it up a bit and actually give it its own post.

Again, this is partly meant to look artistic, part realistic - the branches are from a stock photo but edited so they look almost hand-drawn, and almost as if they are sprouting from the deer's head. The branches make the deer look very alien but regal, just like the ones from the movie did.

Still not quite sure what to make with the text(s) on these pieces however. I'm not sure topography and choosing fonts is gonna be one of my strengths. But the pic looked a bit unfinished without some text imo.

"Who's Lila? - Tanya Kennedy" aesthetic/moodboard

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Aesthethic/Moodboard made with GIMP using stock images from unsplash for the character "Tanya Kennedy" 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:

This moodboard was both easy and difficult to make; easy because I managed to choose a set of pictures that immediately seemed to 'fit' for me and that I ended up using. Difficult, because we find out a lot about Tanya's inner life in the story of 'Who's Lila?', and she has connections with so many characters - so narrowing down what to put in this moodboard seemed a bit daunting before I started.

I think in the end, I managed to convey a couple things about her but haven't dipped too much into spoiler territory - I feel the relationship with William is hinted at in the pic with the cigarette (which has her face hidden, which I think also fits well in regards to her character), her phone hints at the connections with various people etc.

Maybe I'll make a part II one day, or a moodboard that focuses more on specific parts of Tanya's story. For now though, I think this turned out quite well.

"Who's Lila? - Tanya Kennedy" aesthetic/moodboard

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Aesthethic/Moodboard made with GIMP using stock images from unsplash for the character "Tanya Kennedy" 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:

This moodboard was both easy and difficult to make; easy because I managed to choose a set of pictures that immediately seemed to 'fit' for me and that I ended up using. Difficult, because we find out a lot about Tanya's inner life in the story of 'Who's Lila?', and she has connections with so many characters - so narrowing down what to put in this moodboard seemed a bit daunting before I started.

I think in the end, I managed to convey a couple things about her but haven't dipped too much into spoiler territory - I feel the relationship with William is hinted at in the pic with the cigarette (which has her face hidden, which I think also fits well in regards to her character), her phone hints at the connections with various people etc.

Maybe I'll make a part II one day, or a moodboard that focuses more on specific parts of Tanya's story. For now though, I think this turned out quite well.

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Ditherpunk/Glitch art made in GIMP.

At the point that I am preparing this post, this piece was already made a month ago, I just completely forgot about posting it. Now that I have looked more into glitch art and the likes, I finally feel like I can gauge what I even made tbh.

Just some random experiment, but I think it really looks cool. I originally planned to use this as a background for another piece but I think it looks good on its own too.

"Incognito"

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Glitch art made in GIMP with a free stock photo from pexels.com.

I discovered some cool effects I could get by combining different layer effects (partly by accident). The result is a bit like halftone, a bit like glitch art, but I achieved this with only a few layers - that's it.

I quite like how these came out, I couldn't really settle on one color scheme and just did a few ones to test out different options and combined them. The resulting piece reminds me a bit of Roy Lichtenstein and a bit of Andy Warhol for some reason.

I think especially the upper two color schemes are something I will go back to in other pieces of art; the upper right corner gives me some 80s/90s vibes that I really like. The upper left one is a color scheme I have used in a few other works that I will hopefully post in the future; I like calling it "Raspberry Lemonade".

"Have you seen this p̷̟̾ë̵̱́r̵͔̿s̴̡͛o̸̝̍n̸̛̙?"

Made with a screenshot from the game "Who's Lila?" by Garage Heathen. The glitchy text is called "Zalgo Text" and was made with an online generator. The text in the 1st pic is inspired by the "This Man" art project.

This one happened completely on accident; I had copied a crop of William's head in GIMP and it temporarily became available as a brush because of that. So I tried the brush out and ended up with this. Not very refined or fancy, but I love how eerie it looks.

It reminded me of the "This Man" art project (which turned into a meme), which kinda fits with the game, considering how Tanya dreams about Lilith etc. So I made a version that references the meme, which also fits considering the role of memes in Who's Lila, *and* used the opportunity to use some Zalgo text. (The version with the title of the game is the first one I made.)

"Have you seen this p̷̟̾ë̵̱́r̵͔̿s̴̡͛o̸̝̍n̸̛̙?"

Made with a screenshot from the game "Who's Lila?" by Garage Heathen. The glitchy text is called "Zalgo Text" and was made with an online generator. The text in the 1st pic is inspired by the "This Man" art project.

This one happened completely on accident; I had copied a crop of William's head in GIMP and it temporarily became available as a brush because of that. So I tried the brush out and ended up with this. Not very refined or fancy, but I love how eerie it looks.

It reminded me of the "This Man" art project (which turned into a meme), which kinda fits with the game, considering how Tanya dreams about Lilith etc. So I made a version that references the meme, which also fits considering the role of memes in Who's Lila, *and* used the opportunity to use some Zalgo text. (The version with the title of the game is the first one I made.)

"Polyhedron"

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Glitch art made in GIMP with a free stock photo from pexels.com. Makes use of dithering.

I saw the original image and thought of the Polyhedron from "Pathologic" and the song "Polyhedrons" from Disco Elysium, hence the name of this piece.

I originally made the full-sized image back in August, but have since returned to it in my files folder multiple times and wanted to post it. Now I have gone and cropped it and want to share it online.

I love the colors in this one, it gives me vaporwave vibes and I find it really calming for some reason.

"Polyhedron"

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Glitch art made in GIMP with a free stock photo from pexels.com. Makes use of dithering.

I saw the original image and thought of the Polyhedron from "Pathologic" and the song "Polyhedrons" from Disco Elysium, hence the name of this piece.

I originally made the full-sized image back in August, but have since returned to it in my files folder multiple times and wanted to post it. Now I have gone and cropped it and want to share it online.

I love the colors in this one, it gives me vaporwave vibes and I find it really calming for some reason.

"Head In the Clouds" (album/playlist cover + 2 variations)

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Digital collage made in GIMP with stock images from pexels and unsplash. My first attempt to make grunge-poster-style art.

It took me *far* too long figuring out how to correctly modify/use the noise filter plus a few other settings to get the 'grunge poster' type artstyle I had seen and admired online. Once I figured it out, I did a very quick test and also tested out 2 variations, which you can see here.

Not 100% the look I am going for, I want to do black-and-white artwork with colored/colorful highlights in the future, but for a first test this is pretty nice imo. Reminds me a bit about the soft grunge days on tumblr tbh.

Can't wait to properly get into grunge and maybe even xerox style art - I would really love to design posters for example.

"Head In the Clouds" (album/playlist cover + 2 variations)

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Digital collage made in GIMP with stock images from pexels and unsplash. My first attempt to make grunge-poster-style art.

It took me *far* too long figuring out how to correctly modify/use the noise filter plus a few other settings to get the 'grunge poster' type artstyle I had seen and admired online. Once I figured it out, I did a very quick test and also tested out 2 variations, which you can see here.

Not 100% the look I am going for, I want to do black-and-white artwork with colored/colorful highlights in the future, but for a first test this is pretty nice imo. Reminds me a bit about the soft grunge days on tumblr tbh.

Can't wait to properly get into grunge and maybe even xerox style art - I would really love to design posters for example.

"Memories"

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Fanart for the "Backrooms" series by Kane Pixels on Youtube, focusing on the character of Ivan Beck. Made in GIMP with free stock images from pexels.com.

(I am actually made this today and am posting it way ahead of schedule - I have multiple months of work in my backlog at this point oops. But considering we got a new video I felt its warranted.)

So I not only found - what I consider to be - perfect Ivan stock images, but also an image that reminded me of the Backrooms/Found Footage 3, and so I wanted to make some fanart with both. I initially tried to emulate the style in how Kane Pixels' song covers on YT look, which seemed fitting, but kinda ended up doing my own thing.

I really like the result - of course we do not have a lot of info about the character at this point, but there have been hints that there are themes of memory involved and that Ivan is linked closely to the Backrooms themselves. I like to think this piece managed to capture that.

"Who's Lila? - Martha Jennings" aesthetic/moodboard

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

This one took me longer to make than the other ones; only when I accidentally found the 'love' decoration did I get to finish it tbh. I am glad I managed to find enough pictures to do so.

I didn't want it to solely focus on the (possible) fate of Martha, but like with Mike, I wanted to try and include what little we learn about her; 'fast food for breakfast' and all that. The picture of her opening her eyes wide is more about the confrontation on the roof for example.

One of the more difficult aesthetics I have made, but I like interacting with the game and its characters in this way, it makes me more aware of some of their characteristics and quirks.

"Who's Lila? - Martha Jennings" aesthetic/moodboard

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

This one took me longer to make than the other ones; only when I accidentally found the 'love' decoration did I get to finish it tbh. I am glad I managed to find enough pictures to do so.

I didn't want it to solely focus on the (possible) fate of Martha, but like with Mike, I wanted to try and include what little we learn about her; 'fast food for breakfast' and all that. The picture of her opening her eyes wide is more about the confrontation on the roof for example.

One of the more difficult aesthetics I have made, but I like interacting with the game and its characters in this way, it makes me more aware of some of their characteristics and quirks.

"Silent Treatment" (Album/Playlist Cover)

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Album cover/playlist cover made in GIMP with a stock image from pexels.com.

I actually set out to create a pseudo-heatmap type effect but got sidetracked - oops! I really like the 90s/00s neon aesthetic of this piece and just went with it. It turned out pretty well.

Fun fact, I did this in only a few steps/with a few layers, the same of which I have used in other art I posted. It's a super simple process in theory but a bit fiddly in the execution - lots of fine tuning. But the results are really, really neat so far.

"Wheeliam #2 - Variation (Front Facing)"

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Digitial collage made in GIMP using its dithering option, with stock images from pexels.com and wikimedia commons (license). Depiction of the character 'Wheeliam' from the videogame 'Who's Lila?' by Garage Heathen.

Further thoughts below the cut:

A variation of a collage I posted earlier, this one has Wheeliam directly face the viewer of the picture instead of solemnly looking towards the Sycamore trees. Made just because I wanted to see what this variation would look like.

"The Biologist"

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Digital collage made in GIMP. Inspired by The Biologist from "Annihilation" by Jeff Vandermeer. Made with stock images from pexels.com.

"The Biologist"

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Digital collage made in GIMP. Inspired by The Biologist from "Annihilation" by Jeff Vandermeer. Made with stock images from pexels.com.