The Stack

[pasithea]

The Stack by ~dv-girl on deviantART

Sort of a strange abstract piece I did in my sketchbook a while back. Decided to play around with it by first making a vector drawing in illustrator and then throwing it into photoshop where I added a canvas texture layer and then used (for nearly the first time ever) the Liquify tool with some masking. I tried to make this piece all about really subtle texturing. I really wanted to put brush strokes over the canvas texture and use illustrator as nice clean mask lines but photoshop doesn't have a good mechanism for that and, try as I may, ArtRage just continues to infuriate me. Every time I think it should be able to do something, I find myself wrestling with it for an hour and then giving up in despair.

Still. I think I'm pleased with the result even if it isn't perfectly what I pictured.

Comments

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

It looks like a sort of undersea smoke stack. Maybe a geothermal power plant placed on a volcanic vent at the bottom of the ocean. Perhaps some sort of tide powered factory made out of a baleen whale.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

That's an odd looking penis.