And I did!
I'm very happy because this time I'll be on time. It took me a lot of work to get a result that was decent for me. It's a tough competition. I've seen beautiful work full of creativity and loose imagination. Somehow I felt overwhelmed by the inspiration and I said to myself that I cannot let go of the initiative and, above all, the goodwill.
I want to thank @Quantumg with all my heart. Their classes are wonderful. I didn't know anything about Gimp, and I told myself that it would be foolish not to take advantage of what was so generously being offered to me, so I took their posts and set out to make my participation a small learning project.
It's full of mistakes, but I'm very proud of it and I don't think it's such a bad result for my first project all at Gimp, from scratch and without knowing anything, and my second digital collage. I really found everything very motivating, I learned a lot of things and had a lot of fun.
Following the @Quantumg classes, I've done light effects, shadows, cut-outs. As I am a teacher, I know what it means to know that your teaching effort has been useful, so I leave a record in the blockchain forever of my gratitude to @Quantumg for how much it has taught me and how much I hope to continue learning.
Friends, I invite you to get close to this contest (rules here) and to follow the @Quantumg classes, even if you don't want to make collages but to make other kind of digital art.
I also thank Shaka and the community of ¨ Lets Make a Collage for the opportunity to create in this contest that makes Hive artists grow creatively. I hope to grow and improve myself.
At the end you will find a visual summary of the process of making my collage
Summary of the process
I started from the idea of self-referentiality for the composition of the scene that aims to capture a post-apocalyptic world. The procedures that guided this composition are fundamentally repetition to make the elements of photography resignify and the opposition between living nature and objects.At first I had a lot of images, but I realized that sometimes less is more (hehe); so I radically cleaned up my scene and closed it with the image of the runner's sign. People are only present as a representation within the representation (and this is very similar to my nightmares). It's horrific but I hope you enjoy it.
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Here you can see the images used for my collage. Of course, the base photograph that was provided by @Shaka for the contest.
Sources
Oxidized iron
Vine
Stick
Iron beam
Fencing beam
Signal of passage
Base photograph by @Shaka