How to make Sham art that looks real. 50 Hive NFT prize for engagement!

in Alien Art Hive3 years ago (edited)

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Hi, I am Dany, and I am the creator of Sham Yoga! Sometimes soon I will show you some of it, but today I created another Sham discipline. I present you

Sham art methodology

This is a methodology that works for anybody who can't draw. If you are an academy artist you can see this as an plagiarism. Still it creates beautiful work, it is fun and it can teach you how to see the visible world not only in forms but in light, just like a real artist or a physicist :)
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Examples

First I will gave you some examples of sham art made from me in almost the same way.

Example 1. Fully digitally made. No hand-drawing. Looks almost academic.
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Example 2. Step 1.
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Example 2. Step 2.

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The methodology

Step 1. Make or Find a photography you like.
In my example I use this free picture from Unsplash.com (It is a website with free for commercial license)

Step 2.
Open it in photoshop, make it black and white, make highlights lighter and shadows darker, increase contrast.

It should look something like this
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Step 3. Make a new transparent layer. Take a brush or some other drawing tool in photoshop and start drawing over the photo. You could chose two paths:

  1. Draw dark color over the dark areas.
  2. Draw light color over the light areas.

Experiment with drawing, lines, scrambles, dots, anything... just make sure that you distinguish dark from light areas.
In my example with the alien I was making white dots...
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You can see that the more light is the area the more dots I have put.

When you are ready, remove the original photo and you get something like this...

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You can fix some more, compare, examine the light/dark draw some more, experiment...

Step.4 Photoshop filters time. Go to filter and check all filters in Stylize, Pixelate, Noise and distort. Of course you can play with transform.

While checking the filters, make a copy when you see something that you like.
Later combine... when you like the look of it, distort it, make the face like another human/alien, sculpt it with liquify, make him look fatter or taller, look up or down(with light twirl filter), totally change his facial expression with shear. Feel it like you are sculptor and the image is you soft material to distort.
You can decide how realistic or crazy it can be.

In this example I decided to make pixelated Alien. But you can take a look at the 2 two human faces upside. Both of them are coming from a single photo and they look like different people. Or the two steps of Example 2 Look how the second one looks up.

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This is a cool technique. I agree that this probably would be considered plagiarism, but if you use your own photos that would solve that problem. I could see this producing some really interesting artwork.

Yea, learning to see the visible world as more or less light is amazing tool for creating art, no matter the path. I know some of the great painters have used a grid system to transfer what they see, I am sure that if they had the technology, they would use it make their work easier and create more beautiful pieces. And with own photography its all cool :)