Hi, I am Dany, and I am the creator of Sham Yoga! Sometimes soon I will show you some of it, but today I created another Sham discipline. I present you
Sham art methodology
This is a methodology that works for anybody who can't draw. If you are an academy artist you can see this as an plagiarism. Still it creates beautiful work, it is fun and it can teach you how to see the visible world not only in forms but in light, just like a real artist or a physicist :)
Examples
First I will gave you some examples of sham art made from me in almost the same way.
Example 1. Fully digitally made. No hand-drawing. Looks almost academic.
Example 2. Step 1.
Example 2. Step 2.
The methodology
Step 1. Make or Find a photography you like.
In my example I use this free picture from Unsplash.com (It is a website with free for commercial license)
Step 2.
Open it in photoshop, make it black and white, make highlights lighter and shadows darker, increase contrast.
It should look something like this
Step 3. Make a new transparent layer. Take a brush or some other drawing tool in photoshop and start drawing over the photo. You could chose two paths:
- Draw dark color over the dark areas.
- Draw light color over the light areas.
Experiment with drawing, lines, scrambles, dots, anything... just make sure that you distinguish dark from light areas.
In my example with the alien I was making white dots...
You can see that the more light is the area the more dots I have put.
When you are ready, remove the original photo and you get something like this...
You can fix some more, compare, examine the light/dark draw some more, experiment...
Step.4 Photoshop filters time. Go to filter and check all filters in Stylize, Pixelate, Noise and distort. Of course you can play with transform.
While checking the filters, make a copy when you see something that you like.
Later combine... when you like the look of it, distort it, make the face like another human/alien, sculpt it with liquify, make him look fatter or taller, look up or down(with light twirl filter), totally change his facial expression with shear. Feel it like you are sculptor and the image is you soft material to distort.
You can decide how realistic or crazy it can be.
In this example I decided to make pixelated Alien. But you can take a look at the 2 two human faces upside. Both of them are coming from a single photo and they look like different people. Or the two steps of Example 2 Look how the second one looks up.
Engage, share a tutorial and win a NFT for 50 Hive
- Do you think this is art or plagiarism or something between?
- Share in comments your own post with easy way to make something beautiful suitable for people with no drawing skills. The best tutorial will win a copy of my First NFT on
