I have over 6.5K images stored on two servers as several drives; I’m never gonna use 'em all, but someone should see them at some point, so why not here?
So consider this my own version of ‘Wanderthread;’ art & design that I think is cool or visually striking.
Many images are my own creations/manipulations, like the following:
But many others aren’t.
Enjoy, or ignore… as however you so choose.
Zombie teen snack time?
Evil Bad Girls
Obsidian Afro-futurist Glam
Animal print kiss
Melz Spacescapes 1
This is a 'shoop I did, that I’m going to turn into a drawing:
Don’t really need to turn it into a drawing to achieve artistry: I think you’ve managed it fine here. (Of course, if the point of the exercise is to draw, don’t let me stop you. 
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For a period, I was doing something similar, portrait shoops that sort of combined abstraction:
…and, of course, one everyone will recognise…
It was fun, but painstaking work - most of the photos I worked with needed considerable manual retouch to get rid of blockiness when I blew them up to a workable size.
Nicely done!
Bingo, that’s exactly the point, I was just pleased with the work I’ve done so far.
If the charcoal rendering turns out well, I may share that one too.
Ah. I used to be a pretty fair portraitist, but my eyes, although they’re still good for day-to-day affairs, can no longer handle the fine closeup work needed (presbyopia). Shooping (or GIMPing, as the case may be) proved to be a Godsend. I’m pretty much at the stage of not caring how something is done provided that it looks good, that there’s art in the handling.
I think that these conditions are true for your intermediate stage here - it looks good, it has art. If you do put up the final drawing, give me a shout, please, so that I don’t miss it. I’d be interested in seeing where you take this.
