Monday, April 27, 2009

shadows on tombs




And below is the original from which I made the alien hand. You can see the obvious thing I did, but the subtle thing I did was make the arm a touch more curvillinear. (Yeah, I'm proud of that touch.)

5 comments:

Susan Hasbrouck said...

The first one is so striking, with its drawn out proportions, I think I would have cropped the second one and made it an arm duo. Everyone's a critic!

Steven Taylor said...

I like the top one as well (both, actually, but especially the top). Was that that actual shape of the shadow, or did you manipulate the image?

Mike Bailey said...

Steve Taylor: It's your arm, freak-o. Does your arm look like an alien's?? I'm just saying...

jonbon said...

RE: the top one. "ET phone home"

Mike Bailey said...

Jonbon--I wanted to make the first one more creepy, natch, so at first I had it upside down and reddish, indicating a post-death direction. But it didn't work. I can't explain why, but trust me, it just didn't have that feel to it. So I decided to go all "cool colors," and the result was more alienesque. And I thought of E.T. as well.

So we got that sh.. goin on for us!