[Uunusual Alien] Abstract art from a simple photo

Hello everyone,

I would like to share with you a concept of the optical illusion genre but making changes by exaggerating the characteristics of an image.

Here you are following me, you have already noticed my image manipulation like:
https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@a-l-e-x/my-groot-second-essai
https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@a-l-e-x/exploration-root-strange
https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@a-l-e-x/hidden-face-strange-stone-face

Today, I use a banal photo (having a minimum of resemblance to something familiar) then I enrich it to bring out an expression.

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The idea in this "essay" is to transform a banal image into an extraterrestrial character .

For that I rely on a photo which I took with like image something which already has a family form.

Then I try to bring out expression lines by playing with shadows and colors.

as tools I use the Gimp software for photo editing, because it is free (free) and it has many filters to give texture effects, etc ...

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Raw material for inspiration, an already familiar shape

To do this work I used a flower, the Hypericum calycinum Flower

This is the type of flower used (well looked behind her)	faded...

Hypericum calycinum Flower ( all photography original by @a-l-e-x )

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Making off

I counted about twenty steps to achieve this image, if you are interested I will post all my screenshots, let me know in the comments.

stage 1	stage 6	stage 12...

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Thanks for viewing, I hope you enjoyed it, feel free to give me a comment

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See you soon,
AleX