Category: GIMP

redbubble_logoLast week, I joined the online arts community/store Redbubble, and there are now 17 of my artworks up for sale as prints, posters or greeting cards. I have already documented some of my process of making these works, but you can also find more details in the descriptions for each image and in my public profile statement.

This has been a year in the works so far. I’m excited to see what kind of response my work gets, and my profile is only going to grow in interest as I get further into learning Processing 2.0 and using databending techniques.

Check out eRoGK7’s profile and portfolio at Redbubble!

I’m just about finished with my first series of GIMP art images, made with GIMP version 2.6 for Ubuntu Linux 12.04. Using only the filters which come loaded with the program, I apply different filters and settings intuitively until I am satisfied with each image. It is very much exploratory, obsessive and satisfying work.

I started this series with a single image downloaded from some Google Image search – don’t remember what I searched for. This is what I usually do now. Maybe I feel like looking at images of furniture or living rooms, or maybe it’s Craigslist pictures. I find an image and begin to work on it.

Here’s y8vis1t5l6tn5jrg:

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I turned it after a while into this:

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I’m not really satisfied with this image any more, but I liked a lot of the shapes I was seeing at high magnification, so I grabbed 30 or so screenshots from it to work with as a series. I’ve produce about 20 finished works and I think the series is done.

Here’s Numbers 10, 20 and 4, with HQ closeups:

y8vis1t5l6tn5jrg-himag-screenshot-10-030213-1230_WEB-FULLy8vis1t5l6tn5jrg-himag-screenshot-10-030213-1230_WEB-CLOSEUP-1y8vis1t5l6tn5jrg-himag-screenshot-20-030713-2109-WEB-FULLy8vis1t5l6tn5jrg-himag-screenshot-20-030713-2109-WEB-CLOSEUP1y8vis1t5l6tn5jrg-himag-screenshot-20-030713-2109-WEB-CLOSEUP2y8vis1t5l6tn5jrg-himag-screenshot-04-032113-1230-WEB-FULLy8vis1t5l6tn5jrg-himag-screenshot-04-032113-1230-WEB-CLOSEUP2y8vis1t5l6tn5jrg-himag-screenshot-04-032113-1230-WEB-CLOSEUP-1I’ll be posting more. If you like them, let me know. I may be uploading them for sale soon.