Fiction time.

This is what I did for a half hour or so at work today (people from work: this is a lie to make me seem cool, I swear). It turned out interestingly, so I'm gonna put it on the Internet.

Linear progression! Johnathan to comic book Johnathan!


Okay, so this is where we started. This is me about a year ago, showing my love for the then-just-released Showcase Presents: The Legion of Super-Heroes. It's a good picture - it shows off my nerdish glee to good effect. It's been my Blogger pic for most of the time that I've had it, I think.


Next step: running this sucker through, uh, Microsoft Photo Editor (don't have it on this computer (people at work: yes I do)), which is a semi-lousy program overall but which has some of the best effects filters ever. This one is 'Stamp' and it's my favourite. A lot of pictures look fantastic from the getgo after being run through it - this one looks reasonably neato.


I've been experimenting with the pattern stamp in Photoshop. Specifically, I've been trying to put together some nice patterns out of scanned Silver Age comic books. I kind of lost steam on the project after a crash lost me a lot of nice work, but I've got some of the 1960s colours that I covet. Together with the stamp-ified image, they look pretty boss, I think. Note the wonky colours - I was operating from memory (which explains Lightning Lad's wonky palette) and low on variety (which explains Superboy's orange belt). You might be able to see this if you click the thing bigger: the wall behind my head is coloured with the 'blank paper' pattern that I've put together to simulate pulp stock from 1964.


Finally, the variant, in which the solid black has been replaced with comic book black, which means a speckled dark gray. I think I sampled this one from a tuzedo in a Richie Rich comic. Not sure which one I like better, frankly.


That's that, whee.