Ugly, but smiley :) by berien

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· @berien · (edited)
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Ugly, but smiley :)
<center><img src="https://berien.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/UGLY_but_Smiley_foggy02_web.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2007"/></center><br/><p>Hello !</p>

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<p>Today, let's talk about a new conversion of a graphite sketch, with Art Rage.</p>
<p>I already presented quickly the original drawing in an old post last year. The sketch was forgotten in a pile of sheet of paper during months, until last week when I stumbled upon it.</p>
<p>I decided it would worth a try at a digital conversion, with some new coloring tests under Art Rage. This one will be my first step on makersplace.com.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align:center">Original version</h3>
<center><img src="https://berien.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Raw-orignal.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2002"/></center>

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<p>It was started as an abstraction, playing with curves, and slowly became "something". If drawing spontaneously was like travelling in unknown lands, we could call this an encounter.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align:center">Picture preparation</h3>

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<p>The raw initial picture was too pale... Some contrasts adjustments had to be done. </p>
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<center><img src="https://berien.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Step01.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2003"/></center>

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<p>Playing with color curves under gimp, I ended with two versions, one of which unexpectedly gave me an interesting blue ambiance, the other one a nice mate realistic rendering. </p></div>

<center><img src="https://berien.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Step01.1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2004"/>
<h3 style="text-align:center">What about a mix of these ?</h3>
<center><img src="https://berien.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Step01.2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2005"/>
<h3 style="text-align:center">Next steps : Art Rage painting</h3>

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<p>Started yesterday early in the morning, ended late in the night, with some breaks, I think I've put something like 10 hours on it. Testing, correcting, and changing my mind once or twice :p<br>I recorded a few hours of the job, but couldn't find time for editing the raw stuff yet.</p>
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<center><img src="https://berien.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Step02.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2006"/>
<h3 style="text-align:center">Final Version</h3>
<center><img src="https://berien.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/UGLY_but_Smiley_foggy02_web.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-2007"/></center>

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<p> After a few hesitations about the finishing touch, I finally opted to end the work on this one. Although I admit that I could have spent a lot more time on it, because I had several other options to explore, a choice had to be made.  :) </p>
<p>The final limited edition of the picture will be posted a few minutes after this article will be published. Five copies for sale.</p>
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<p>That will be all for today. I think I'll come back on the creation process with a video, depending on the spare time I'll have this week :)</p>
<p>Meanwhile, thanks for your time and reading,</p>
<p>And, see you next time !</p>
<p>Berien 2019</p>
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@adamada ·
It looks beautiful! the macabre theme and the amount of detail on something that introduces dread. I'd definitely not want to see this image in a nightmare.
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@berien ·
Ahahah ! Thank you, @adamada :D

Something funny happened while I was working on it : there has been a step at which I ceased at perceiving it as an evil creature... Something in the smile or the eye, I don't know, made me see it as being simply different, ugly for sure, but not evil :D
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@adamada ·
I beg to disagree. That creature is beautiful in my twisted perspective :D
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@berien ·
Thanks a lot, @art-venture, really appreciated :)

I must say I feel a bit like an usurper towards the other people you highlighted in the magazine: even if the sketch was done with a good old pencil, the whole coloring work was digitally done :)
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@forester-joe · (edited)
I really like this one i love the dark theme to it, the blue in the back ground makes the details in the head stand out better. It does look like its smiling or just showing its teeth lol nice job on this one resteemed it.
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@berien ·
Many thanks ! 
That blue background wasn't expected at all initially. It popped out while playing randomly with colour curves settings, which highlighted the paper's refraction.
Rule #1: Always put a bit of chaos in the work's recipe 😁

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@veryspider ·
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Love, love this one, Pascal <3 I really like how you added so much depth and volume in the face through the use of contrast, colours, and layering of textures and definition :) I love the design of the face as it is, and the final result for this piece gives him a little bit more personality, through colours! <3

He looks like he's a little happy about something... I think his smile is quite friendly and wonderful, hahaha <3
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@berien ·
Thank you Miss Liske ! :D
Glad you liked it :)
Yes the drawing's mood derailed quickly during the colour work from the dark vision I initially had  based upon the graphite sketch :)
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@berien ·
Huge thanks ! :) 
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@berien ·
Thanks a bunch ! With such cakes I won't fit for long in my trousers :D 
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@blueeyes8960 ·
Very interesting result you came up with.  I love on these art projects seeing how the art progresses from the first draft to the final product.  The blue in the background and the green on the face really complement each other.  And it almost looks like another face on the neck.  I agree, it no longer looks evil in the final version.  Great piece of work!
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@berien ·
Thank you @blueeues8960 ! :)
I find too that work-in-progress states are very interesting, either when looking at other people's work than when considering mine.

After all, the final piece is only what marks the end of a learning session.

New insights, bits of skills and knowledge are the main "product" of a work session and are gathered during these intermediary steps, not at the end :)

Thanks for the kind comment, and have a nice day :)
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@blueeyes8960 ·
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@delishtreats ·
I like the part when you said that you just started to play with shapes until it became something - a great sign of creativity!  10 hours is a lot but I'm sure that you enjoyed it :) And I also like the title of this artwork :) It is indeed ugly but looks somehow happy and made me smile as well :)

Thank you for sharing and congratulations on your curie vote!
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@berien ·
Thanks a lot @delishtreats :)

I had to abandon since long any pretention to be the leader of my own creative process... In my specific case, that never ends well... and I like happy endings :D

Thanks again for the comment, have a great day :)
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@mcnestler ·
Haha, it took me some time to realize that it is a head. For some reason, I thought it is a seas sponge :P But great level of detail :P How does the utilization with BAT work? I am really interested in this token :)
Cheers 
Max
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@berien ·
Ahah ! my wife saw a vegetable at first glance, so: you're not alone ! :D
Thanks for the kind comment :)

About BAT and Brave, that's a large topic for a small comment :D
The ambitions are pretty large around the token itself (with plans to give it practical utility in its ecosytems, out of simply tipping content publishers. The triangle Brave+BAT+Uphold seems to build an potentially interesting Crypto-to-Fiat bridge)

About the practical everyday use from user experience, I'd say that Brave is the entry-point.
Brave has launched its ad module recently (at least for computer's version), which allow people to define if they want (or not) to have pop ups while they browse the net, and how many (max 5per hours). 

For now, you get 0.10BAT per ad when you click on one of them. From what I've tested, it's not required to subscribe to offers to get the reward. 

Now... The tricky part : this reward is somewhat stacked until the 5th of the following month, where its unlocked in Brave's wallet and then can be used for tipping authors (or any other use that will be developped later.)
  
There's a confusing aspect of the Brave wallet at first : that's not really "your" wallet. It's a reserve of tokens that has to be used in the eecosystem. You can't transfer it on a personal ERC20 address directly. 

It has limited applications for now from a user's point of view, but Brave is still a pretty good browser (I use it and it has replaced my other ones) to use, but allows to gather *almost* passively some tokens.  

For the moment, it's more interesting for Publishers.

As a publisher, you get access to affiliated links like the one I shared at the en of the post. Users installing from the link and regularily using Brave during some time(I think it was about 'a month' last time I checked) make the referrer earn some BAT at the end of said period.

After validation, your sites are allowed to receive tips from users. The following month (every 8th) the funds earned are transferred on Uphold and become transferrable to your own erc20 wallet or other exchanges as you will.

This has been largely abused last months, by tons of fake and empty sites creations, for self-tipping. A whole bunch of accounts have been locked, under review.

As I said, there's a lot to write :D This answer seems pretty long so I won't add too much. 
If you like this kind of projects, keep also  an eye on BitTUBE (token TUBE) Could become a serious competitor for Brave, with their Firefox's fork currently in progress, their browser app that already allows to earn passively, flawlessly and directly their tokens, and other "little" things like their youtube-like video platform.

Anyways ! I hope I answered the question :D
Have a great day @mcnestler and thanks again for passing by ! ;) 
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@mcnestler ·
Dude thank you reeeeeally much for this extensive comment! I think I have now A clear view on how BAT is used at the moment.
> This has been largely abused last months, by tons of fake and empty sites creations, for self-tipping. A whole bunch of accounts have been locked, under review.

This came to my mind when you talked about that you can tip someones website but not sending it to your own account :P  I will defiantly have a look at BitTUBE, thank you for sharing your information with me.

Have a nice day man :)
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@edencourage ·
You got some sick skills dude. Very fascinating. There is always some beauty in those form of art and how I am amazed by how the artists like you do some miracle with the use of digital touches and I really find it wonderful.  I am not good at drawing and never really do the digital drawing, but I am always fascinated by those. You are all incredible. 

Good job! Looking forward to your next sketches! Way to go man!
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@berien ·
Thanks a lot for you very kind comment @edencourage :)
Really appreciated, and motivational :)

Have a very nice day :)
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@hlezama ·
I don't know about "smily", but that is one hell of an ugly head.
Great work with the colors and textures.
A really scary creature you got there
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@berien ·
He, he :)
It made think about accepting difference while working on it... I guess I could seem as ugly from his/her/its point of view than it is from mine :D

That has set some specific points to take care at for whenever I might have to deal with living beings representation : importance of eyes and expressivity. 

Anyways : Thanks for the comment :)

(Oh ! BTW : great striking short text you wrote there : https://busy.org/@hlezama/desperate-5-minute-freewrite - Can't find really constructive comment to post as an answer there, but I realized how badly informed I was about Venezuela's situation... Something more to add to my fix-it list... Media coverage is so awful in France. Thanks for sharing :) )
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@hlezama ·
Thank you for the feedback.
As I have always said it, *nothing like living it*
Many people, who think about themselves as progressive, have expressed solidarity for the Venezuelan government, just because they want to keep their anti-imperialist agenda, without pausing to consider that not all so-called progressive/reactionary/leftist government are actually doing something to vindicate the rights of "the people", allegedly violated by capitalist/rightist rulers.
I feel really depressed when I hear an american or a european criticize their coutries and put some of the leftist latin american governments as an example of what a government for the people should be like.
They have to come here and live under our circumstances, not as a special guest, like so many have come. Only then they will se the beast right to the eye and know that whatever is going wrong in their countris is nothing in comparison.
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@road2horizon ·
hi @berien
first the title attracted my curiosity! I thought of course it was referring to a girl! Then from the drawing it looked like a jellyfish !! When you say that in the end it didn't seem ugly to you, I tell you what it is: do you know the Stockholm syndrome ?? :-D
Having said that, I like a lot to see how the work of an artist evolves, step by step, 10 hours of work well done! But is this part of your job or is it your passion?
Congratulations and thank you for sharing with us
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@berien ·
Thanks for the comment @road2horizon :)
Nah ! I'm not that beast's hostage, am I ? :D

It's not my job, even if I've traded a part of my revenues  for more time per day dedicated to drawing and painting. I'm declared as a professional artist for the spare occasions I have to sell some pieces, but I have so much to learn in marketing and commercial domains that... well...  that's not really working... (yet ? :p )

Anyways, thanks again, and have a nice day ! ;)
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@road2horizon ·
well, it's nice to know you're on your way! being able to maintain oneself with one's passion must be very satisfying and you will see that you will get there !! And you will also learn all the secrets of the business! good luck
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@vibesforlife ·
It looks like real, 3d kinda. It reminded me of voldemort from Harry Potter's , This should have been the Voldemort face, what a serious scary deathly look.

Amazinggggggggggg :):)
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@berien ·
Ah, ah ! Many thanks @vibesforlife for the kind comment which vibrates with life and energy, as your nickname :D 
Much appreciated! ;)

Have a great day :)
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@vibesforlife ·
You too have a good day :)
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@cryptoandcoffee ·
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Looks kind of scary and sinister all in one. Seriously loads of detail went into this. I like how you said you played with it until something appeared. Amazing what you can produce when you are not sure what is going to come next or where you will end up.
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@berien ·
Yes, tons of unexpected things await to be created. To pop out, they often simply require someone who doesn't know what they're doing when they do it :D

Thanks for the comment, @cryptoandcoffee. Have a great day  :)
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