The Waddle Walk

https://www.hireanillustrator.com/i/portfolio/elsa-martins/ I chose Elsa, because I found her work very chibi.  Among the ones I was looking through, her penguin really made me smile.  At first glance it may seem simple but I found her collection a particularly consistent cartoonish style.  As I suspected, I enjoyed myself as I drew these in homage to Elsa Martins' style, particularly "Crocy the Pirate."

   

Bringing up the pic in 5x8 portrait at 300p scale, I adjusted the levels, then color balance towards cyan and reduced yellow.  I duplicated twice, making first duplicate hard mix and the other difference blended. after merging visible, I duplicated again, flipped it vertically, then blended with divide.  Afterwards I merged, duplicated again, then flipped horizontally, and set it to subtract blend, and merged once more.  Finally,  I duplicated one more time, flipped horizontally, and set the blend to luminosity. Placing a cloud picture I blew it up and made a second layer that I made red, and saturation blend. Then I made a second layer and added a shade of blue, made it saturation blend.  Afterwards, I added a picture of myself, added a vector mask, and removed most of it except my face, and blended to luminosity.I added another picture of myself, removed most of it with vector mask and blended with darker color. Lastly, I placed 2 of 1 wingding, free tr...

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF9yHO-UUws   I feel good listening to the band, Whitewoods.  Their music is based on the genre of vaporware.  As far as I can tell, the group formed approximately in September of 2009, with a YouTube video posted of their first song 7 years ago, with their latest on the same platform post as soon as 6 days ago.  Despite the fact that I don't know for sure what they look like, nonetheless I enjoy their ambient way of music that compels you to just go with whatever happens.