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Magenta

Magenta

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Gojira said:
Wow, who is that blonde, Magenta? LOL
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I really don't know, as I collect faces from the web, sometimes from Pinterest and other times after seeing a famous model's face I will look for other images of her... that one may actually be a drawing, and I modified it slightly, and have also added blush to her cheeks now. If I know whose face it is I will often say; for instance, I have used Emmylou Harris' face, Audrey Hepburn's face, Katharine Hepburn's face, Joni Mitchell' s face, Marilyn Monroe's face... I did a Star Wars one and used Ewan McGregor's face paired with a body modelling his movie outfit... I also received permission from a couple of the women here to use their faces :) A lot of my content pieces come from sites that off such things for free so people can use them in personal projects as long as there is no commercial gain. I spend hours on such sites combing through what they offer in various categories.

















That last one is a mannequin's head to which I added hair and changed her facial features,
for example the eyes, to be looking at us instead of away, and changed her mouth... as well
as adding wings, a body, and dress, which is actually two dresses blended... etc, etc
 
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Gojira said:
Well I do like your vision for such things :D
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Thank you! I also did one recently using Emma Stone's face...



Right now I can do no designing :cry: Using a mouse may fix the problem with the keyboard freezing, though :unsure:

After seeing how different they look on each of my three monitors, I wonder how they look to others colour-wise.
 
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Magenta said:
Thank you! I also did one recently using Emma Stone's face...



Right now I can do no designing :cry: Using a mouse may fix the problem with the keyboard freezing, though :unsure:

After seeing how different they look on each of my three monitors, I wonder how they look to others colour-wise.
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But this is all not in violation of any copyright laws, is it?
 
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Gojira said:
But this is all not in violation of any copyright laws, is it?
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Almost everything I use is offered free for use as long as it is not for commercial gain, so no. Sites that offer these images stipulate that, and often have higher quality images than you would find through random searches elsewhere. Other things, like model's faces or actresses' faces, fall in public domain, so they are not subject to copyright. There is also something called fair use, that does allow for copyrighted images to be used in a way that is considered a transformative use of the original. Generally speaking, though, I try to avoid copyrighted images :)
 
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Magenta said:
Almost everything I use is offered free for use as long as it is not for commercial gain, so no. Sites that offer these images stipulate that, and often have higher quality images than you would find through random searches elsewhere. Other things, like model's faces or actresses' faces, fall in public domain, so they are not subject to copyright. There is also something called fair use, that does allow for copyrighted images to be used in a way that is considered a transformative use of the original. Generally speaking, though, I try to avoid copyrighted images :)
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Wow, you've done your homework gurl!
 
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Gojira said:
Wow, you've done your homework gurl!
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Well, I do not wish to get into any trouble ;) Also, the images I create using things sourced from the web are at no time offered for sale anywhere. In fact, they are created for the specific purpose of sharing Scripture verses here, though I have posted some of my more recent work on one other site (not a Christian site) where I have been a member for almost two years, and also shared some of them with friends and family... including church members. An elder in my church requested one from me last week, and I have asked others what their fave verse is and designed some dedicated them to those people. That is why you may see something like "She is Legendary" on the one with Audrey Hepburn, because it was dedicated to that member here, who is a huge AH fan, discussions about whom inspired me to watch some of her movies, including a documentary which was quite eye opening. A Christian friend on the other site was asking me if the figures/women are all Christians, and I was kind of like, dude, they are collages LOL. One woman here was so appreciative of my work that she offered to pay for me to print some of them and send them to her in England, and I would not even let her do that. I worked in a photo lab so printing them was no problem, and I sent her four of her favourites for free. It was at that time that I realized I needed to be making my originals larger, so if I wanted to print them I could enlarge to 8 x 12 inches @ 300 ppi, because three of the four images I sent her could only be printed as large as 5 x 7, and one @ 4 x 6. Since then I work in an 8 x 12 format, but in pixels, so it is 3600 pixels wide by 2400 pixels high, @ 300 pixels per inch. I size them down for posting...



^ One requested by church elder, for a pilot :)
 
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