Squat for more power...

Here was the start - I wanted to poke a little fun at the fact that he is trimming down. Used a "Face in a hole" app to start things off.

Am I Arty, Or What?

ToonPaint - RIGHT out of the gate. I have to stop using that app. I get carried away.

But I LOVED what it did, and it made me think I could move in a couple of different directions.

"Building" Muscle (See What I Did There?)

When I saw the black and white version - I immediately thought of "The Scream" - But I wanted to try to flex a bit before I went that way. Really see if there was something else in there... 

City Scape

You see posters like this in NY. I love that people walk right by a poster of Lil Kim, thrusting her cootch out into the face of a bloated man who appears to be begging for mercy - and nobody notices.

Maybe they would notice the sausage sling on this one... 

15 Minutes of Meh...

Tried it. Liked it well enough to think, "What if I  placed THAT on the side of the building?"

It sucked on the building, by the way.

Zine Time!

So I thought I would try out a Zine style look. Low Budget, Photocopy cover type of thing.

I LOVE this one. One of my favorite ones in the set.

Mixed Like Oil And Water.

More of the Zine Style, but mixed with the city backdrop.

Didn't work. Just didn't tie together.

Flogging A Dead Horse (Televised version)

Old Style Zine Image? 

Yep. 

Old Style Television?

Yep.

Together?

Nope.

Let this be a lesson...

Just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean that you should.

This one is the essence of lameness. I hang my head in shame.

Mr. Motivator!

Oh. 

Now this... THIS is quite different. I like this one alot.

Please notice the Black Sabbath reference.

Newsworthy...

Have I mentioned my LOVE of the Newsifier App?

Seriously...

Scream-Be-Silent...

Touch Retouch on the iPhone - and the Scream dude is vanquished into the void.

Look - I knew it was going to come back to the Scream thing. But I HAD to see if the other roads had any merit. AND - for the record: I was pretty happy with a few of them. I'm glad that I took my time.

Subtle change to the original?

I just didn't think anyone would be able to tell what I had changed from the original... Had to work a little harder.

Again?

Toonpaint, again.

I know - but the app is GOOOOOD.

Really Good.

And I am getting better at using it.

(I hope)

Paintin' Ain't Easy, Yo...

Here's my first attempt at repainting this.

Why the hell did I use pink? Seriously... I think I may have had a stroke, or something. I can't think of another reason why I would make that decision.

I painted 6 different versions of this. I am NOT going to make you sit through all of them (as if anyone is reading this, anyway).

Final Stroke

So here was my final painted version.

Remember kids, I can not paint. If I made a mitake in here - it's because I am a hack. A no talent hack who has technology that can make up for my short comings.

Like George W. Bush.

Art Cred...

Maybe if I made it look like someone was painting it, people would "get it" and se what I was trying to do with the overall image?

But you lose a LOT of the original image. You know - the one that you worked so hard on...

(Nods head slowly... It hurts, but some things have to be done.)

Another Angle...

Still working with the same idea, but a different angle.

Pitcherday noticed that they were both being painted outside, and that my image was decidedly more of a "Studio Piece."

She's very Smart. You should listen to her.

Start here.

Scream 2

So there it is. My sequel to the masterwork.

I had a TON of fun doing this stache. I had to really stretch to be able to even get the "painting" part to look close to right. In the end, I may have given up a little resolution for the final image (the last app that I used to place it in this studio setting dropped my size / quality by about 45%) - but I gained in overall composition and execution.

I loved that the painter had his arm bent, and it looked like he was sort of comparing the lines on the arm to his own. Maybe just a small thing, but it seemed like it was meant to be.