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My envision of death is a black, endless, nothing encapsuling our soul within it's silent womb. This old man is facing the knowledge that his whole excistence is being held in his own hands. The moment he stops smoking he will disolve and disappear completely. The only thing remaining will be his pipe - and his legacy. The colors symbolize his soul, and the smoke his remaining will to live. I believe, no matter how dull a person, his soul will always have some unseen color being supressed by the feeling of loneliness. The light and glow represent his good deeds and accomplishments. It can represent his role and warmth as a father-figure.
Time spent: 10+ hours (about a week on and off)
Technique: hundreds of layers with smoke brushes shaped into a face using the transform tools of photoshop. NO DRAWING
I got inspiration to this piece from
, after she had seen my deviation called "Soulcatcher" . She suggested that I did something similar, but with a pipe, and I couldn't get the idea of a portrait smoking itself out of a pipe - off my mind.
Time to think was made with resources from these deviants:
Stars and light-effects: [link]
Smoke: [link]
Smoke: [link]
Smoke: [link]
Pipe (Crestock): [link]
I used a photo from ~salemwitch as a reference when making the face. [link]
The size makes it perfect to use as an iPhone (or other smartphone) background
Time spent: 10+ hours (about a week on and off)
Technique: hundreds of layers with smoke brushes shaped into a face using the transform tools of photoshop. NO DRAWING
I got inspiration to this piece from
, after she had seen my deviation called "Soulcatcher" . She suggested that I did something similar, but with a pipe, and I couldn't get the idea of a portrait smoking itself out of a pipe - off my mind.Time to think was made with resources from these deviants:
Stars and light-effects: [link]
Smoke: [link]
Smoke: [link]
Smoke: [link]
Pipe (Crestock): [link]
I used a photo from ~salemwitch as a reference when making the face. [link]
The size makes it perfect to use as an iPhone (or other smartphone) background
Image size
2480x3508px 2.95 MB
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Overall Vision Originality Technique ImpactBeautiful work. I love viewing art that gets your brain moving with the aspect of an illusion. I honestly almost missed the face when I first looked upon this. I think most of that has to do with the wide assortment of colors. Though, that's not necessarily a bad thing - coinciding with what I said in the beginning, illusions in art can be wonderful! I firmly believe that you captured that very well in this piece. If an illusion wasn't the main goal in this piece, then perhaps fewer colors would have brought the face out more? This is definitely going into my collection of favorites, however. What a fun, colorful piece!