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October Art Challenge - The Lensman

The Lensman

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I've been wanting to do something like this since I created my Chaplin as Doctor Who avatar. I was torn between using Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd as Spock. Keaton had the perfect unemotional face (hence his nickname "The Great Stone Face")...however, in the 1920's and 30's, round glasses of the type made famous by Lloyd came to typify the intellectual or nerdy intellectual (especially in the first Thin Man flick).

It was trickier being true to 20's era posters because they didn't have taglines on them. I wanted one like "on a distant world evil lurks" or something in that vein to "explain" the presence of our two monster guys.

And while I meant to get rid of the ciggy Fairbanks has....it was a low priority thing that grew on me, so I kept it in.

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Nice photomanipulaiton. Those guys blend in just about perfectly!

I must say though, it seems like every month someone does the fake distressing effect. I hope to see NONE of it in November. YMMV of course.

Nice work though.

--Alex
 
Nice photomanipulaiton. Those guys blend in just about perfectly!

I must say though, it seems like every month someone does the fake distressing effect. I hope to see NONE of it in November. YMMV of course.

Nice work though.

--Alex


Thanks for the kind words! As for the "fake distressing effect"....Guilty as charged. 99% of my stuff looks like that...I just love old stuff. Not just the sense of design, choice of fonts, but making the stuff look beaten and weathered.

Especially when it comes to photomanipulation for alternate worlds. It add's a little more flavor for me. So there's a pretty good chance my next entry will be the same. Call it my particular style. :)
 
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