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"Untitled Album/Song Cover Art #2"

Digital album/playlist cover made in GIMP with a stock image as well as various stock images converted into textures from pexels.com.

Most of the sources listed are pics from pexels.com that I turned into textures. They made creating this piece a lot of fun. This was mainly just me trying out stuff and then building onto the result of that experimentation, so this was a great piece to make purely for learning purposes.

"Jurassic Park - Dr Ellie Settler" + Peach Color (Aesthetic/Moodboard)

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An aesthetic/moodboard made in GIMP for the character of Dr Ellie Settler in "Jurassic Park" (1993, directed by Steven Spielberg), made with stock images from pexels.com. The color theme I chose is soft peach.

I originally planned to use a VHS-like effect over this aesthetic (and maybe I will post that version in the future), but I actually find that I like this version a lot better. It is very calming, in the way I feel the character is.

I mixed in several points of her character in this, sadly I couldn't find more paleobotanist related pics when I originally made this - I made it earlier than some of the pieces I have already posted. But I still really like how it came out, it mixes several things that important parts of her life.

(Also, sidenote, I might change the layout of my posts a bit, first giving the title and then adding the sources, I think it might look a bit nicer, so I am trying it out to see if I like this layout better.)

"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.

[sources: The Giant / The Pompoms]

"The Cheering Giant"

PNG digital collage of the Rolling Giant, but with pompoms instead of flower hands. Made in GIMP with a screenshot from The Oldest View Part 3 - The Rolling Giant from Kane Pixels (which includes use of the Julien Reverchon Giant made by Kevin Obregon) and a stock image from unsplash.

Additional thoughts under the cut:

This came to exist because there is no cheerleding emoji and because I wanted to cheer on someone who is making TOV related media, hence, this little png was created. Not exactly this iteration, but one similar to this, was the first thing I tried to create when I got back into GIMP all those weeks ago. It was a good starting point to get back into the program (and hilarious to make).

I decided to make a smaller sized one for convenience as well, seeing as the first one is bit big for, say, discord or the likes.

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"Annihilation" - aesthetic/moodboard (based on a mix of movie and book version)

An aesthetic/moodboard made in GIMP based on the Southern Reach books and movie by Jeff Vandermeer. Made with free stock images from pexels.com.

Further thoughts below the cut:

One of the earliest aesthetics/moodboards I made when I got back into GIMP, and before I even really got back into 'Annihilation' again, going purely off of memory to make this one. Not the best I have made imo, but still part of my art journey, so I am posting it.

Also, I kinda like simplicity, how 'ordinary' everything looks, while the book and movie themselves contain weird and uncanny imagery.

Either way, I liked making this, which is the most important thing. And it sparked my attempts to make creature collages later on, like the dolphin with the human eye.

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.