Turns out I’m not as good with spray paint as I’d hoped. At least on small scale (8″x8″-ish). So, for now, I’ve overlayed my illustrator MacArthur piece in Photoshop. I think the faux corrugated metal turned out okay, though. If only I could get all this olive drab paint off my face…
Have a great weekend, everyone!
About this image: digital media – vector art created with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop digitally overlayed onto faux metal / painted cardboard
Refrigerator Magnate 
Great image. He looks like he’s had a thyroidectomy
It’s funny… I didn’t really plan out where the ‘joints’ would fall… I built the background separately and just let the whole thing be as ‘random’ as I could get it… (I kind of like the dimpled effect by his ear, too).
Thank you very much, N.M.!
Good texture. It shows detail well.
Great job. 🙂
Thank you very much, sir!
I had to change my original plan, but I think it worked out okay for the most part.
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to use the vernacular -as some religious folk put it- FUCKIN A!
Wonderful work my dear
Hahaha… thank you… I ‘does whats I can’ you know!
Rock on, Ms. B!
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I was so proud of myself, when I saw this image come up on my wordpress feed, I said to myself – “HEY! That’s MacArthur!!! General Douglas MacArthur!”
I didn’t realize photoshop had such fancy options as to turn a pic into corrugated tin like this. A very attractive texture/design! Nice. VERY nice Spilled Ink Guy! 😀
Right on, Spectra – good eye!
The texture is cardboard that I peeled the top ‘ply’ from to expose its corrugation and then coated with a paint containing bits of iron. Then there is a second ‘oxidizer’ that you can apply to actually rust those bits of metal. It’s pretty cool… and lot of fun!
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“The texture is cardboard that I peeled the top ‘ply’ from to expose its corrugation”
Bravo– Very inventive. If it had been a “metal shed” filter or one of those dreaded “Layer Styles”, the effect probably would have flattened a otherwise beautiful vector stenciled rendering.
I try to go outside the computer, whenever I can. If only to rest the eyes. .
Thank you so much!
I find the more I can do by hand, the more I tend to be pleased with pieces like this (I agree… a layer style would have seemed too uniform, I think).
I originally intended to do more by hand, but I quickly discovered I have to perfect my stenciling process a bit more. I’m learning as I go, though, so I guess it wasn’t a total wasted effort.
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Great image! The composition, subject matter, monochrome — and the corrugated look is fantastic
I’m very happy to hear you liked it, Ms. F.!
It’s a bit different a look than I originally had in mind… but I think I like it. At the moment, anyway.
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Amazing work, Inky. And I totally think pipes will be the hottest fashion accessory in 2012. Corncob chic.
Thank you so much, Dishy!
Hahaha… who knew? My wardrobe is FINALLY en vogue!
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My, what a big pipe you have….
Hehehe
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And from there a movie franchise was born… I’ll be back.. Ok, he wasn’t the Terminator….
Nice artwork Bob 🙂
Hahaha…
a great excuse to break out my Ahhhhhnold impression! I’ve been set-up beautifully!
Thank you very much, Martin!
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Excellent work, Bob! And he looks very series.
Deb xx
Why thank you, Deb!
Out of all the images of MacArthur I’ve seen over the years, this is the ‘look’ that always sticks with me…
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funny!
greetings by
photoshop transformations there too …
Hahaha…
Meow!
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Looks great but why is he smoking a Croquet Mallet?
Hahaha…
I guess he’d already gone through all his wickets.
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I give it . . .. *****
Your great kindness is always worth five stars, Nancy, Thank you!
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You did that with spray paint? You are crazy talented!
No, I’m sorry… I didn’t explain that very well (words are not my friend).
Originally I printed this out and cut out pieces for stencils to spray paint through (but I wasn’t very happy with my result… I didn’t wait long enough between ‘layers’ and wound up removing part of the background). So in a last ditch effort I just overlayed the digital pieces (created in Illustrator) over the background which is painted cardboard.
I haven’t given up on the idea completely, though…
I think it would be pretty cool if I can just get a bit more practice first!
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5 stars for sure! Thanks for stopping in and saying hi earlier! Glad to be back!
Thanks so much, J.G.!
Don’t mention it! I was thrilled to see you are back!
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Nice work 🙂
Thank you very much, Eden!
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A corncob pipe! Where is the general’s button nose and two eyes made out of coal? 😉
Hahaha…
perhaps they’ve melted, too…
somehow.
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I’m confused. Why do you think you are bad with spray paint?
So – this is cardboard that you sprayed to get a metal effect? SIG, I don’t know much – but I think it looks cool! And yes – I think it looks like metal.
Neat stuff, my blogpshere friend.
Sorry, Ms. D… I didn’t explain any of this very well…
spray paint was part of my original idea, but what you see here is a digital portrait (in lieu of the spray painted portrait) overlayed on hand painted cardboard (which I was hoping would resemble corrugated metal.
Thank you so very much!
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I think I like it this way (“If only I could get all this olive drab paint off my face…”) as part of the overall effect. Or did you mean you got the paint on YOUR face? In which case, you paint like I do.
Sorry… I meant to jokingly imply that I had gotten carried away and painted my face by mistake…
in reality it wasn’t quite that bad…
but close!
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Well I think that you have created
a fine masterpiece here SIG, and
as for the olive paint, I think that it
adds character… Well that is what
I think anyway SIG and remember
I am not always right, but I am
NEVER WRONG 🙂 lol
Have a great rest of evening 🙂
Androgoth
Hahaha… well, thank you, sir! I told my wife I was just trying to bring out my eyes a bit!
I would never have doubted you for a minute, A.G.!
Thank you so much! I hope you have a wonderful evening as well!
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Very cool! You are a multi-talented lad indeed. 😉
You are far too kind, sir!
I thank you!
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cool image as usual SIG.
Thank you so much, U.M.!
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MacArthur? I thought it was Bruce Willis! 🙂
Hahaha…
I can TOTALLY see that, S.E.!
Good call!
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Robert my friend your talents knows no end. Really cool picture my friend.
Thank you so much for such a wonderful comment, JB!
You are very kind, my friend!
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I think it’s very neat, too, especially with the background texture. Looks like it came from that era, too.
I’m so happy to hear that!
While the process didn’t go exactly as I’d planned the result seemed to get my original idea / feeling across.
Thank you very much, sir!
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A ten star treatment. Well done ! I shall return to see what you do next.
Why thank you!
Hahaha… your welcome to land on the shores-o-the-fridge anytime, sir!
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All looks good. 🙂 Picture, and texture.
Have a good weekend SIG! I like how Andro called you 🙂
That is very kind of you to say! Thank you so much!
I hope you have a wonderful weekend, too, Ms. B!
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I thin this is amazing work. The corrugated metal is just fantastic. Great job. Seriously. 🙂
That is wonderful to hear, Katie – I thank you!
It took a while to peel all that cardboard apart, but I am fairly happy with how it turned out, I think!
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I’ve always thought I would make a marvelous hoodlum.
I mean, why not?
Hahaha… I suspect you can do pretty much anything you put your mind to, Megan!
Plus, hoodlum = fedora (in my mind, anyway). Nice!
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Hi Robert, I have given you The Liebster Award. You can collect it from my place. 🙂
That was very generous of you, S.E!
Thank you so much for thinking of me!
I sincerely appreciate that!
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Very cool metallic texture! 😀 Have a nice weekend, too!
Thank you very much, Cristina!
I’m happy to hear you thought so!
I hope that you had a wonderful weekend, too!
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Cool edit. BTW, I was off-line for a day, so I finally answered your question you left on my blog regarding Instagram.
Thank you, sir!
I’ll take a gander…
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Splendid!
It looks exactly like corrugated metal to me. Bravo!
Can you believe that guy thought that pipe looked cool?!
Thank you very much, sir!
Hahaha… yeah, and no bubbles, either!
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I like it… very cool and olive’s not a bad colour 😉
Thank you sir!
Hahaha… it matches with pretty much everything in my closet, too. So that’s nice.
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Wow! This is awesome.
You are far too kind, MJ!
I thank you, sir!
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Dammit, you are one creative SOB, SIG. I love the way you pulled this together.
Thank you very much, Mr. H!
I was hoping to use spray paint for the actual portrait (to create some variation between hard/soft lost/found edges), but other than that, I think this is pretty much what I had in mind…
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I think Dougie beat Arnie in saying “I’ll be back”
Hahaha…
I believe you are absolutely correct about that one, sir!
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so creative! i really like the effect and the created mood here. nothing wrong with that face 🙂
That is very kind, thank you!
I was fairly happy with the mood of this one… I was going for a ‘retro’ feel to match the WWII era…
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Daaaaaaaaaaaang, this is cool. I’ve tried messing with Illustrator lately, but it’s just way too different from Photoshop for me so far. Aside from the amazing fake metal, the chin shadow is easily my favourite part.
Thanks very much, U.M.! Stick with the Illustrator (you won’t regret it)! Especially the ‘drawing’ tools. I’m sure you’ll get the hang of it very quickly, and then it’s a lot of fun!
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Corncob pipe anyone? ;P
I wonder if they sell these at the Corn-palace?!
I want one that blows bubbles.
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Love it! He looks like a battle hardened commander!
This would look great as an illustration for a video game.
Thank you so much, Mr. H!
Hey, that sounds like a great idea to me!
We get all the cheat codes for our help with the project, though, right?!
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I should hope so! 😀
Hahaha…
seems only fair to me!
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