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"(Ivan Beck and) The Backrooms"

Digital collage made in GIMP with stock photos from pexels.com. Inspired by Kane Pixels' iteration of the backrooms (on youtube), the character of Ivan Beck, as well as the OST/music and its cover art for the series (also on youtube).

Some thoughts beneath the cut:

The mystery of who Ivan Beck is, what happened to him and his motivations are fun to dig into. There is a lot of symbolism in the Backrooms series and its supplemental material that I just really enjoy exploring visually; eyes, the sun and the sea for example. So making this while further trying out GIMP was a lot of fun.

I am particularly proud of how I turned the iris/pupil of the eye into a sun and made it look good.

As an aside, I find it is a good challenge to try and make art only using screenshots of a series or only stock images, hence why I have made some other art in this way as well that I will hopefully post soon.

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"Who's Lila?"

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

Thoughts beneath the cut:

My first aesthetic/moodboard! I challenged myself to make some art for media I liked using only stock images as well as trying to recreate the style used, and Who's Lila became an easy choice once I discovered the dithering option in GIMP.

I enjoyed trying out different color options, choosing and arranging the different pictures. Maybe in the future I will try out some of the different color palettes this game has to offer, for now, I decided to stick with the 'standard' one.

Making this gave me the inspiration and confidence to try out making different aesthetics for other art pieces/media as well, so that is an additional plus. I also made some more Who's Lila pieces as well.

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

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

Thoughts beneath the cut:

First character-based aesthetic! I think this turned out pretty well, considering I haven't made that many aesthetics yet. I slightly adjusted the settings I used from the last one and added a layer to make the colors pop a bit more. Also I love the picture for the "shh"/whispering/mystery part of Lila - the shirt saying 'stop' is a nice touch.

I also find it is a neat challenge for myself to try and emulate a specific artstyle; it is a good way to try out the various effects and filters while having a clear goal in mind.

I wanna do digital art I wanna do pixelart I wanna do glitchart I wanna do ditherpunk I wanna do abstract and surrealist art I wanna make patterns I wanna make textures I wanna do photography I wanna pick up drawing again I wanna do more digital collages I wanna make more aesthetics/moodboards I wanna do digital stamps for neocities I wanna do vaporwave art I wanna do album covers I wanna do movie poster mockups I wanna do fanart I wanna do original art I wanna do art in GIMP I wanna use Aseprite I wanna learn Blender I AAAAAHHHHH-

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"Annihilation - The Bear (version 1)"

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

This is less of a 1:1 interpretation of the bear, and more of an abstract, experimental, artistic representation of it. After I made the dolphin, I remembered the bear from the movie and thought about recreating it, and was actually quite surprised (in a good way) when I managed to do so.

The pic is meant to be half-realistic, half artistic; the skull kinda looks like it was drawn over the bear, and kinda as if the skull really portrudes from the bear's head. I really enjoyed the 'shared eye' as well, it came out looking really well.

I have a second picture of the bear that I will post in the future; it looks very similar but is not completely identical. Overall, this concept was a lot of fun to try and adapt, and I learned a few new things along the way.

(Fun fact, the bear actually has a name. It's 'Homerton'.) (2nd fun fact, I am almost sure that the art for Tom Rhodes' 'Don't Fear The Reaper' cover features the same skull I used.)

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"Out Of Place"

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

Additional thoughts below the cut:

These are the variations of the movie poster practice pics I posted earlier. This style takes a bit of inspiration from surrealist artist René Magritte actually, what with taking a human(oid) silhouette and replacing the inside of it. These also serve as mirror images to each other with how I replaced Wyatt and the Giant, in a way showing how they are both 'out of place' in different points in the story.

These were really the 'prototypes' for the movie poster(s) I then did. It was a nice challenge to try and find pictures that would not just be great mirrors for each other, but also had distinct silhouettes *and* fit into each other.