This is one of my favorites. I think of
it as a lion god depicted in an ancient relic of a faraway
culture. In actuality I created it from a photograph of white
lace (I make a lot of pictures from photos of lace—the
designs in it are just so easy to make new pictures out of!)
which I copied symmetrically, morphed slightly, and colored in.
But it looks like an old and exotic relic, doesn't it?
For this picture I used an
extremely small bit of photographed white lace, and after I was
about halfway done coloring it in, I copied it symmetrically to
make it four times its original size. Then I morphed it to
distort the symmetry and finished coloring it in. I'm actually
quite glad that the line of symmetry didn't fall right down the
middle of that flower-like thing, because a flower with two
centers is far more interesting than a flower with just one. It's
a very exotic species.
The other thing I like about this picture is the shadowy elf-like shape above the flower. That's the main reason I use symmetry so often—it's so good at creating shadowy human shapes where I least expect them.
This is a drawing of a piece
of glass I saw in a restaurant once. Actually, the glass was
entirely red, but my drawing shows what the glass should
have looked like. I really like the glassy texture I achieved
here, and the red color is shown off to much better advantage
with a few other colors mixed in than it was in the actual glass.
I also like the way the patterns of the composition accommodate
so much randomness within them without ceasing to look patterned.
This picture began life as a photograph of flowers.
It's been a while since I created it but I don't recall doing
much of anything to create it except splitting it into red, green
and blue channels and then running a "Bas Relief"
filter on the red channel. It was quick and easy and turned out
very well.