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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.

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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.

"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.

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.

"Frutiger Aero Inspired" (Aesthetic/Moodboard)

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Aesthetic/moodboard made in GIMP with free stock images from unsplash. I tried to capture the general aesthetic of 'Frutiger Aero'.

Further thoughts below the cut:

I am pretty sure I didn't manage to be 100% accurate to the Frutiger Aero aesthetic, but I think its passable for a first attempt. I just tried to capture the 'vibe', the general imagery and colors associated with it.

(Sidenote: pexels.com makes it a lot easier to find photos again, whereas with unsplash, it took more effort. I recommend getting an account and making picture collections to easily find the photos again.)

"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.