Re: Double Take *edited*

Did you sketch that picture on your avatar? If so what was the medium used?

Well you can call it a multi media effort. But mostly graphite (background) and colored pencils (for the moon), then manipulated a bit with my windows 'paint' program. 

Several years back I made the switch from engineering school to art school. It felt so much better to me, moving from left to right brain. In the very first drawing class, the instructor had us take off one shoe and place it on our desk and spend 15 minutes to draw it. All I had with me was a lead penicil.  During that 15 minutes, I absolutely fell in love with that 'empty' space of drawing my old beat-up tenna shoe.

After the term ended, I took some slides of all my assignments and filled out an application for a local art fair. Later I was judged into the next fair. I devoted most of my spare time to doing lots of larger pieces. One of which was a scene of an obscure distant figure crossing a desert-like lanscape in front of some pyramid structures. When I started playing with the computer and the internet, I took some digital pictures and loaded a few of the drawings into my paint program. The setting of the digital camera that I chose put a nice blueish hue over the black and white works.

This is the first avatar I came up with. http://curezone.com/upload/_A_Forums/Ask/tn_dhyana_journey_0031.jpeg

So when it came to making another avatar, I liked the image of the traveler, so I played around with reshaping it digitally with the 'paint' program till I got it to where it was acceptable. I liked how the textured sky looked on another piece and pasted that in as the base layer. http://curezone.com/upload/_A_Forums/Ask/camel_walking.jpg

 http://curezone.com/upload/_A_Forums/Ask/DSC00052.jpg The moon was also taken from the other piece, enlarged it and pasted onto the sky. 

Then went back to the traveler and dropped him in after that. Then I flipped the whole thing added the slight wave effect (available in paint), copied this image, and then went back and pasted it to the bottom of the other image to form the reflection.    

Anyway, I have never tried uploading these images to the tinyMCE format, hopefully they also came up to help show you the process.

Cheers -*- turiya