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Daily Create #tdc2701: Clet a Sign

Today’s daily create had us modifying street signs ala Clet Abraham. This one kind of interested me because it reminded me of a few of the entries in a subreddit called r/MildlyVandalised, although Clet’s work is more professional. To start this create, I went to Google and looked at some street signs for a while trying to come up with some good ideas. After I picked out a few, I choose which idea I thought would be the funniest. I eventually choose the swerving car sign. In a mix of hunger, looking at the swerving lines, and wanting to play with the idea of the original sign, I decided to edit the sign to look like there is bacon behind the car. I took a good image of the sign and added it onto GIMP. I then found a picture of cartoon bacon online and used ColorPick Eyedropper, a browser extension, to pick the colors of the bacon. With the colors I needed, I proceeded to color in between the lines to make it look like a piece of bacon. My main challenge was picking a sign to use and how to color with the correct brush using GIMP. On my old computer, I used Windows Paint whenever I wanted to color something in, so I wasn’t used to all the brush choices I would have in GIMP.

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Daily Create #tdc2694: Another Planet

Visiting Another Planet
I was a huge space geek when I was younger, so when I saw the daily create for today, my mind had a million ideas at once on what I should do. I ended up narrowing down my ideas to those related to gas planets, specifically Neptune, since that was where some of my more creative ideas were. I debated using dark humor for my entry, given how dangerous the gas planets would be to visit in reality, but I figured it wouldn’t be as fun as suspending disbelief.

First, I looked for a backdrop that looked similar to the color of Neptune. This was hard because most of the blue stuff I had was either too dark, more teal-like, or too small. I eventually came across a Snuggie that ended up being the right color and size for the photo. Since Neptune is very cold (around -214 degrees celsius!), I wore a coat and my UNE hat. My next challenge was conveying the fact that Neptune is a gas planet. I looked online for a PNG (Portable Network Graphic) of smoke and came up with a couple of good images. I used Gimp to crop the original photo and to add the smoke effect on. I discovered the duplicate layer tool, which made it helpful to have smoke around me while not covering my face. I also tinted the layers to have the smoke look more blue.

This was definitely a very fun create!

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