Toon Me
The #toonme ( "Toon Me") challenge consists in dividing a picture of yourself in two parts. You keep your face on one half, and on the other half of the picture you draw yourself in your artstyle. I really enjoyed watching other illustrators doing it on social media, so here is my version.
I decided to display a piece of HTML code because I am a web developer (it is the index page of this blog, back in the time where I was coding it from scratch 😎) , and a picture of me playing the beautiful 5-strings Fender bass behind my face "in the real life". Behind my avatar of Petit Lutin, I obviously added Moustache, a main character of my HotPandas series, and my version of Tux, the penguin used for referring to GNU/Linux and sometimes to Free/Libres softwares.
I'm so happy that my real hair ended up so well mixed with the background ! When I see the result, I feel like I have a background of 10 years of Photoshop, which I have not ! I just used two different brushes on Krita ! 😅😎 Well, I do have 10 years of small projects on GIMP, so...😏
You can see I have glasses in the real life ! I received them just before the quarantine announcement in France. They have a yellow finishing that reduces the pain of the blue light of screens, which is something I really appreciate, because I spent a lot of time in front of my computer. My hair is not as red as in my illustrations, because the henna does not give a neon red, but more subtle reflects that shines under the sun 🔥
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