I took a break yesterday night from working to practice my photoshop skills. I found a couple cool actions that made photos look like comic books. The end result wasn’t exactly to my liking, but I tweaked them until I came up with something I liked a lot. I had several pictures of Ben that I had wanted to make into a collage, but I was inspired to make it a little comic strip.

I had been doing some retail therapy and found the cutest wolf hat for Ben. Even though it was for an 18 month old child, it seems that the wolf hat is too small for my big headed child. But he looks so damn cute in it! At first, he was OK with the hate, but then realized that it was making his head hot (or maybe felt weird on his head or messing up his hair) and he wanted it OFF. Now, whenever I put it on, he immediate takes it off and throws it far away.

Anyway, here’s my little strip (click for a bigger view):

Here are the original colors:

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Before I got really busy with work, I had some free time outside of the 8-5 that I was normally working. My favorite thing to do, other than Yahoo! Graffiti, was to practice my photoshop skills. Earlier this year, (or was it last year?) I stumbled upon (seriously, I was using my “Stumbled Upon” random site browser) a site called Worth 1000, where photoshop artists and photographers could compete in an assortment of challenges. I got addicted immediately, but haven’t played as much as I wanted to because to really contribute something that had a chance, I would have to invest a lot of time in an entry. But I have entered several contests, so every once in a while I’ll share with you my contest entries so you can check ‘em out. It’s a pity that I’ve been so busy lately, because doing this stuff gives me so much joy (yeah, I know what you’re thinking, “Why don’t you get a job doing it?” It’s complicated, OK?)

Anyway, here’s my submission for the “Detouching” challenge, where you take a celebrity photograph and do the opposite of retouching - manipulate the photo to be the “before” picture. This was a lot of fun to do…

Here’s the “After” picture:

Here is the “Before” (the original) picture:

I don’t like Denise Richards much, so this was a very enjoyable challenge. I gave her some acne, dark circles under her eyes, muted down her hair color, and jacked up her teeth. I came in 12th out of 77 entries, so I think I did pretty well…my goal is to make the top three, but I still have a lot to learn if I’m to place that high. Hopefully, life will start slowing down a little and I’ll get to play more often!

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