Urban Self Portrait Face Mosaic

Exactly what it says on the tin. The background image is the self portrait from earlier in the blog.
These are all of the faces to date. Nearly.

You may have to lean back and squint but I'm there, somewhere.

Are you trapped by a mortgage? Were you sold a dream that never came true?

This little guy can empathise. Guaranteed growth he was told. No problem shifting it on to someone else he was promised. Now it hangs over him like a prison.

This is the look of something that's been conned, nay, shafted.

Why this other character is trying to have it as a meal I'll never know.

Home, sans occupier.

Look at him. Just stuck there with no outs in sight. Sad really, but he knows he's not the only one. Cold comfort that is to someone who just wanted a roof over their heads.

Of course there's always the ones that got away, and they left the place in a mess. Cheers.

Check road signs carefully, sometimes their warnings are important.

Watch out for falling debris, especially when it's giant roadworks ahead.

Old Man ButtonHead in the snow.

It all started with the button for the lift. This thing looks like it should be scanning your retina.

Here is my old man ButtonHead concept. What's in the bag? Who knows? It could be his marbles, or mine. It could be treats for his old dog Jimmy, who passed away 15 years ago. He clings to hope.

Many thanks to the environment again for providing the imaginative backdrops this week. These curious little footsteps were outside my back door this morning. Well, after I made them with my fingers they were. Top ones would be the neighbours.

ButtonHead and his range of looks.

Here he is in the snow,  his calls for Jimmy down to but a whisper.

Jimmy?

This was picking a filter I hadn't meant to and I was surprised by the result.

Starting the cold days with a happy bowl of porridge.

This is how it came out of the microwave.

Urban self portrait.

Have you ever seen an iron drool before?

There's two faces for the price of one here:

 Looking slightly startled.

What could it possibly be? A wrinkly shirt?

Whatever it was, it was all a bit too much for him.

Anyway, on to the characterising and environmentalisng of this fella. 

With the shape of the handle and the water housing unit on the back of the iron it reminded me of a snail. I drew out the illustration of the snail first in Illustrator:

I looked up some snail shells and made a tracing of one to use here. 

I always felt that this was a good picture to use to sum up the urban area.  It is our habitat that is pushing out the natural one, and will continue to do so until there isn't much left.

Here are my IronFaceDroolFace snails racing to get the very last of the food .
Could this be our future also if we're not careful?

I'm a fan of black and white, what can I say.

Here's a few foggy night pics.

These pictures were all taken on my phone adding a grainy quality to the pictures which I didn't mind because it adds another aspect to them.

The lights leading to a vanishing point drew me into this picture

Both this picture and the red one above are two ways I might approach this picture as a painting. It has been 'shopped, yes.

Not a huge amount of photoshop involved here because it was dark out, but the saturation and contrast are changed.
It looks very much like a print.

This atmospheric little scene was in my driveway through the trees.  Slightly eerie.

The fog had obscured the blue Christmas tree on the water and the orange lights along the road gave it an appealing contrast.

Latchhead Video

The sound quality isn't great so it compliments the video quality which is a bit lo-fi too. I was enjoying the saturation slider and the music seemed to be going well with it so I recorder it. Maybe a little long at 4 minutes but it's nice to look at.

Latchhead's got a bone to pick.

Security.

The pen-tool is your friend.

After colouring the vector drawing I made an extrusion of the flat shape. The colour is still very flat so over to photoshop to match with an environment and add some shading for a more textured character.

A sign of the times.