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Cartoon outlines and interior colour regions were created manually using vector paths in Photoshop.
Daphne's neck scarf was created by copying and cloning from the original source image of the painting.
Colours match Daphne's usual fashion preference for purple and green.
Source for Vermeer Painting, "Girl With a Pearl Ea...
Reference for Daphne's face
Reference for Daphne's colours
I prefer that you stick with the rules on the contest and just substitute the cartoon character into the original painting. You did a whole new painting which really isn't the point of this contest. However, I did score you based on the work you did.
On 3/20/2008 12:48:14 AM, lsgenie said:
I prefer that you stick with the rules on the contest and just substitute the cartoon character into the original painting. You did a whole new painting which really isn't the point of this contest.
Well,it isn't really a whole new painting - I swapped in Daphne's face for the original woman's face but the head cloth and dress she is wearing are from the original image -I've just colourized them "fit" the standard visual of the substituted cartoon character. The neck scarf - which was created using elements from the head scarf in the original painting - was also added because it is a standard part of that cartoon caracter's visual representation.
What the rules say is: In this contest, you are asked to update an old painting, swapping in a cartoon character for the original subject. In some entries, one or more entire figures have been replaced by cartoon caracters, while in other entries only parts of a figure - such as face, head and/or hands have been replaced. Many entries have added other cartoon elements to the image outside of the swapped subject - like a can of spinach to a scene using Popeye or a carrot in the hand of a Mona Lisa based on Bugs bunny. My entry isn't really any different - in effect it's a full replacement of the subject by a cartoon caracter who happens to be wearing clothing (and jewellery) matching that worn by the subject in the original painting, just in her prefered colours. :)
I suspect that it's the "cartoon outlining" that is the real problem, because it definitely does change the visual of the underlying clothing. I hadn't originally planned to do that - I was just going to add the scarf and colour the clothes appropriately, but while I was in the middle of the work, adding the outlines to the whole figure just felt like "the right thing to do". Sometimes, when the muse speaks, you just gotta listen. :-)
Anyway, I'm glad you voted based on the work, and I'm sorry that my entry may not be exactly what you were expecting.
:-j(enni)
[Edited by User on 3/21/2008 12:11:45 AM]
