That was a fun, photos + edit 3 hours before the deadline, wish I would have decided to enter sooner and made the effect more realistic!
Thank you everyone for that amazing score and great comments, I never expected this last minute entry to do so well!
A few people wanted to know how I got the effect so here it is… basically I splashed paint on a white cardboard, took a photo of it, and used that as a template to make a rough “brush”, painting in more circular spots, erasing a few streaks, duplicating the drops in different sizes, and distorting a few of the drops. Then, I “splashed” the paint drops multiple times in several transparent layers, altering the shape of the brush as well as the direction. I loved how the effect made it look like the shirt was disintegrating! My Original idea however was just to splatter the background, but it didn’t look quite right, so the effect I got was a complete accident =)
For those interested, here is the one without the splash
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Place: 1 out of 90 Avg (all users): 7.9563 Avg (commenters): 8.5217 Avg (participants): 7.6034 Avg (non-participants): 8.1200 Views since voting: 10245 Views during voting: 518 Votes: 183 Comments: 43 Favorites: 17 (view)
Congratulations on the ribbon. It is a really nice portrait on a great portrait made more interesting with the splatter. You can ribboned in the last three challenges (all Expert Editing). Very nice work.
I absolutely love this... I'll be amazed if it doesn't blue. Superb retouching on his face and the splash looks like his shirt is disintegrating. Ten from me.
wow, marvellous picture. in my top 2 for this challenge definite ribbon winner, same as male portrait but cant remember name or go look it up hehe but well done, love the effect, but the eyes make it.
elsapo? Quite easily a front page contender. Excellently done, hope you posted details on how you did this...been wanting to do something like this for quite some time.
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