Sunshine Challenge Day 7

[kingstoken]

Purple is my favourite colour, although I usually prefer a darker purple than violet. Fandom wise I think of the Hawkeyes, Clint Barton and Kate Bishop, from Marvel Comics, purple is a colour heavily associated with them both, especially as a team. I love them, they are walking disasters (although probably Clint more than Kate), who are also superheroes with no superpowers. They love to roast each other, but, when the chips are down, they have each other's backs. They only graphics I've made are two of my icons:



I'm so far behind on the comics, my library didn't have any of the West Coast Avengers, then our provincial Interlibrary Loan Program experienced cutbacks, then when they finally came back Covid happened, but someday I will get to experience Clint and Kate again.

Today's other theme was what things are you able to offer others to bring a little sunshine into their lives? So I'm offering to make sunset portraits of people's fave characters, like the one I made for day one of the challenge. All I require is you provide a large, clear head and shoulders shot of the person, in the example below you will see the original photo I used to create the Castiel portrait:



I've only ever tired this technique with photographs of real life people, I'd be willing to try with animated characters, but there is no guarantee that it will work. Also, your finished image probably wouldn't have as nearly as many splatters, I went a little crazy with the splatters on Castiel's. I'm not sure how long it would take to make, I think can make one in less than half an hour, but real life happens, so be patient with me.

Next, is my last song rec of the challenge, "Best of You" by Andy Grammer, it is such an upbeat song about two people seeing the best in each other, which is such a nice note to end the challenge on.

Watch on YouTube

Lastly, I made a spotify playlist of all the songs I recced for the Sunshine Challenge, it's a rather eclectic mix

This year's challenge wasn't as hard as I feared, when I first saw colour prompts I wanted to run screaming into the distance, but it all turned out alright in the end.

Comments

[isabellerecs]

The Hawkeyes! \o/

[kingstoken]

Yes, they are the best!

[smallhobbit]

It's been an interesting challenge. It's the first year I've done this, and seeing you amongst others doing it encouraged me to have a go.

[kingstoken]

Oh, what a wonderful thing to say, I'm so glad I inspired you.

[enemytosleep]

If it inspires, I'd love to see a sunrise portrait of Matther Mercer:

[enemytosleep]

Also, thank you for taking part and sharing with us this year! I know I have personally found much comfort in a group of internet strangers being kind and sharing things they know. ♥

[kingstoken]

You're welcome, and thank you for modding the challenge

[kingstoken]

You can find your sunset portrait here https://kingstoken.dreamwidth.org/38364.html

[abyss_valkyrie]

OHH!That sunshine effect is lovely!!Thanks for sharing that video,how pretty!<3
Also oooh,since you are taking requests,I'd love one from any one of these images,I don't know which one will work so I chose a few,you can do for one of these,if you like. :)
If you need them cropped,I can do that too.

[kingstoken]

You can find your sunset portraits here https://kingstoken.dreamwidth.org/38412.html

Sunset portrait

[tellshannon815]

Re: Sunset portrait

[kingstoken]

Your sunset portrait is here https://kingstoken.dreamwidth.org/38883.html

[nrgburst]

Ohhhh how wonderful! Can you do Arya for me?

Or Sansa? I'm not sure if it's the kind of image you need but I can look for more if they aren't right!

[kingstoken]

Your Arya sunset portrait is here https://kingstoken.dreamwidth.org/38964.html

[silveradept]

I would like to see this Katie McGrath picture transformed: https://americanprofile.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/katie_mcgrath.jpg

[kingstoken]

You can find your portrait here https://kingstoken.dreamwidth.org/39200.html

[bemused_writer]

Oh, such a cool offering! And purple for the Hawkeyes is a good choice. ^^

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

If you're still doing them, maybe a sunset picture of Crowley of Good Omens.

[kingstoken]

You can find your portrait here https://kingstoken.dreamwidth.org/39615.html

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you so much!!

sunset portraits

[oldtoadwoman]

These are all so pretty. I never would have thought of an effect like this.

Re: sunset portraits

[kingstoken]

I wish I could take credit for creating the technique, but a found a tutorial online that shows you how to do it in photoshop. It's not too hard, at least not after you practice it a few times.

Re: sunset portraits

[oldtoadwoman]

I'm going to have to give it a try at some point. (I don't have proper Photoshop, but I've got a free program called Fire Alpaca that I've managed to wrestle to my will for the most part. That's how I do all my icons and such.)

Oh, by the way, I love that "Best of You" song. Like you said, we could really use something a little upbeat right now.

Re: sunset portraits

[kingstoken]

Here is the link to the tutorial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPvWcJ_pUc8&t=460s, to give you some idea of how it is done, and then maybe you can find a way to adapt to your program

Re: sunset portraits

[oldtoadwoman]

Thanks! I'll definitely poke at it later because it's such a cool effect.

[shipperslist]

Oh, Hawkeye and Hawkeye. Love'em.

That Cas pic is lovely! Just out of curiosity, could you do that from a pet photo or does that work only with human torso pictures?

[kingstoken]

I've never done an animal, but I be willing to try.