Connie's Ramblings

Here is my 3rd image in the 5 round one-on-one Battle I’m doing on NAPP.

I named it "Strolling Through the Universe"

Rounds 1 and 2 can be found in this post.

Another member on NAPP challenged me to a one on one battle in which we bat images back and forth between each other keeping at least one element from the previous to create a new image. The battle is for 5 rounds and so far I’ve done 2 – below are the images I’ve created.

First here are the starting images I used for the first round. The image of the girl is what was served to me.

Completed image.

And here is my 2nd round.

Hard to believe I haven’t posted since 24 August… Well actually maybe not… I lost a harddrive in there right before Labor Day Weekend… No data was lost – luckily I regularly backup… but it did take awhile to get things back up and running smoothly.

Battle 131 started with:

I rendered some cylinders in Illustrator and then set the image as the surface to come up with with the fireworks. The wicks were made with a custom brush I created in Photoshop and the fire was simple painted:

Then there was Battle 132‘s starting image:

I used the pen tool in photoshop to trace several of the front petals and then took 3 of the petals and morphed them into a butterfly wing. That was then duplicated and rotated about the horizon to create the butterfly…

Finally, last weeks (Battle 133) image was:

The framing on this was created using another image from stock-exchange of a bamboo ladder.