ok, this image comes from klassylady25, who posted it originally in the 'honey' thread. i 'threatened' her that if she didnt make it a separate art challenge that i would. she said post away! so, here it is :)

it's a great picture of an unusual butterfly. she had two pics of this insect. i chose the one with splash of color for this thread.

have fun and make sure you say thanks to klassylady25 :)

craig

I did vector simplication using Autotrace. I blended the various vector layers in Mayura adding the line outer trace for the B layer (I created 4 vector layers listed A through D). I then exported the bitmap into GIMP and did bumpmapping. Added Toadies Metalwork to the blend and some additional lighting effects via the GIMP and done. :)

Glad you went ahead and posted this Craig (and thank you Klassylady2 ) it is a unusual butterfly and very pretty
Ikroll your stained glass is great
I had trouble with this one, i am happy with the butterfly but not when it is on its own, so added flower and not happy with that will have to put my thinking cap on later

Palms

Studio Artist and Photoshop for blends and masks.

Nice image Craig. When you see an image this good it's hard to do much to improve it. But here's a quick manip.

Steve

you guys are good. i only posted this yesterday and already four responses.

lk,
i like the contouring effect. it sort of extends the theme of the paned butterfly wings.

palms,
if it aint done, den it aint done :) i still kind of like it, though. look forward to the finished version :)

kiska,
nice impressionist type. i like how the background looks sort of like waves of paint.

and steve,
i agree about it being hard to improve, but you seem to have done so. nice 'van gogh' sort of look. very well done!

i had a go also. added a gradient fill layer on top of the duped original and simply erased bits here and there at various opacities of the erase. did a little hand touchup with push to finish.

craig

Thanks Craig. And as for your version, don't know why, but I keep looking for CHANEL #5, (or similar), written across the bottom somewhere. 8-) Good one!

Steve

you guys are good. i only posted this yesterday and already four responses.

steve,
i agree about it being hard to improve, but you seem to have done so. nice 'van gogh' sort of look. very well done!

i had a go also. added a gradient fill layer on top of the duped original and simply erased bits here and there at various opacities of the erase. did a little hand touchup with push to finish.

craig

Here is my attempt using Photoshop, sort of minimalist.

Gee, Craig... here's what I epected from you...

Nice Photo, Klassylady.

Very good Swampy, and in my books 10/10 for knowing Craig ( he has got a bit of a reputation hasn't he ? ) :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Palms

Gee, Craig... here's what I epected from you...

Nice Photo, Klassylady.

Yup; Craig slipping on us. :lmao:

I like them all. Have to get ready for a concert (play Clarinet) at the park in about 45minutes, so I hope to see more when I get back. :)

steve,
if Chanel wants to buy it, i'd be happy to sell it to them :)

very nice, veryweird :)

dee dee,
very cool!
the trick was to get you guys to copy my style. so, i win! ;)

craig

Palms... I got him pegged! :classic:

Hey, Craig, No one can copy your style, hon. You're in a class all your own and that's why we love ya. :wink: Actually, I wanted to do your thing before you came back with a second version.. :tongue:

stained-glass window came to mind...
thanx for the beautiful photo

stained-glass window came to mind...
thanx for the beautiful photo


Why didn't I think of that? Like it Cyber. :)

thanx lkroll :)

dee dee,

you are a dear. thank you :)

cybercat,

ditto what lk said. very cool :)

craig

Sometimes less is more...

ok, this image comes from klassylady25, who posted it originally ...
craig

First used cutout to reduce the color palette and then painted in Deep Paint using slightly modified crayons..

Btw, Frank.. yours is really cool :bigthmb:

frank,

interesting. i had rotated the original to the right once while looking for something to inspire me. somehow the wings looked wrong when i did it, but in your version it looks right. nice :)

drach,

nice. that 'pitting' reminds me of some paintings done on metal i saw years ago.

craig

Kraellin & Drach

my original intent was to make a stained glass window with it.
The first thing that I did was rotate the image and clean the JPG artifacts.

Then I noticed that Cyber Cat had already taken that road, so it meant that I would have to come up with something different. But the "muse" wouldn't talk to me... :-(

Once it was clean and rotated, I thought it looked natural so I decided to leave it alone.

thanks frank :)

has anyone else noticed anything a bit odd about the wings? (the original picture). every picture on google of this type of butterfly has the same thing. see if you can spot it.

craig

Left and right are of a different size. Only the one wing has color markings.

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Craig, odd thing to me was .................second set of wings missing

A different stained glass window...

Swampy, I have to give you credit for the most unusual. It made me think of the Twilight Zone.

I've enjoyed them all. Craigs and Franks, Cyber Cat and lkroll.... beautiful and those I didn't type the names of. You've done this picture proud.

Hugs to all....
Candy (klassylady)

cyber cat has it right. what you're seeing is only one wing. the other is hidden. yup, this threw me at first too. i did manage to find another pic of this type of butterfly where you can see the outline of the other wing. the attached is the other of klassy's (i hope) which shows the other wing.

very nice, frank :)

thanks, klassy :)

craig

Thanks, Klassy.. :-)

Here's my try...don't ask me to remember the steps! :P

Here is one of many.

here's another. Fast Fix plugin to wow the colors and saturation, duped, desaturated with Fast Fix and duped. ran 32 band gray plugin with a wild mix, some blend modes and a very heavy digital camera noise removal.

craig

Thankyou klassylady for the lovely photo and also to Craig for posting it..

Lots of interesting renditions have been done....

Heres mine dark and dramatic.....I used amphi softs, artifactor filter...

Patricia... :wavey:

Nice one Patricia , but as it is dark does this make it a moth ?

Palms