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[» lunaya]

Matreia by Luke Brown

okay.

So, I get that the background of this piece is made up of a piece of another of luke's characters. Apparently he took each character and made a trinity mandala of it, and surrounded it with this fractal looking layers of colour, then added sacred geometry, then made a wallpaper mandala of that, and tilted the wallpaper mandala so that it looks like it's COMIN ATCHA.

An example of the fractal layers of colour I'm talking about can be seen here:



My questions:

- how did he create these fractal looking layers of colour around each little image in the trinity mandalas?

and

- how did he make that into a fullon wallpaper of mandala work with that trinity? (I know - that part I must understand)

and finally

- how did he tilt it so that it looks like you're zooming into the fractal-mandalik worlds of Luke?"

[» st.even]

I'll field this one; i've had a few one on one sessions with luke back when i was just getting into visionary art (and when he made this piece). Since he shared the technique with me, i'm going to assume he doesn't mind it being shared with like minded podlings.

- how did he create these fractal looking layers of colour around each little image in the trinity mandalas?

There are two techniques being used here.

The first, creating the line patterns around the original shape of his triumvate of characters is "edit -> stroke" which surrounds the layer (or selection) with a solid colour of your choosing, size, and transparency. in this case luke did rainbow hued strokes of increasing size, starting small and red and ending large and purple. i've actually set up scripts to do it automatically but i find it looks much better if done by hand. it's important to note that his characters were 'cut out' of the background. the stroke tool doesn't work on flattened images...

Once the original is created, a string of objects are made using the transform (alt/apple-T) which lets you change the shape of an object. this is the same technique used to warp the shape and make it bend in; hold down 'ctrl' while in this mode and click and drag one of the control points and you'll see what i mean.

The second technique which accounts for the shifting colours from the center outward was done by making the background all one layer, and then copying it and hue shifting, deleting sections as you go until you have a shifting pattern of colour. a more automated method, but again less clean would be to create a hue saturation layer mask (layer->adjustment layer->hue/saturation) and then use a circular gradient within the mask to affect where it takes effect.

- how did he make that into a fullon wallpaper of mandala work with that trinity? (I know - that part I must understand)

the wallpaper is made up of repeating elements. basically copy what you're working with and create a repeating pattern with it. in this case he probably made a line of the original elements, merged them together, and then transformed them (alt-t) and used that 'ctrl' trick to skew them so that they start at a centre point and flowe off the screen. once you have one, use 'ctrl-alt-t' to rotate and copy it, rotating about the centre point of the screen, and then use 'ctrl-alt-shift-t' to repeat that action and create the circle (thanks air!!). it helps to work out the math first if you want everything to line up perfectly. then that whole series of layers was merged and another identical copy was created, placed behind, rotated, and enlarged to fill in the gaps. viola; magic wallpaper background.

that also answers ::

- how did he tilt it so that it looks like you're zooming into the fractal-mandalik worlds of Luke?

i'm sure there will be points that need clarification. feel free to post any further questions and i'll do what i can to answer. i've been meaning to work on a visionary art totorial, and this was good to think about.

love
even

[» lunaya]

deep thanxasis eventree.

you are the kind helper of all great finery since you're up for it, i will tag you back with related questions as my own version of this technique comes into its practice over the coming week.

tha love grows and grows and grows, dear one.

.:. silverbreath

[» lunaya]

oh you wouldn't believe it. i just accidently lost my work. so editing this post... more soon

lyoness

[» lunaya]

hmmm...

ok. so here is what i came out with so far. i actually copied and rotated the picture (which i drew) using the cntrl-alt-t thing (wicked)... is there a faster more precise mathematical way to do that though? still, that was great to learn.

took a few tries to really blend those strokes out nicely, but i like what i came out with.

it's sad, i lost my photoshop version of this. it's kinda late, i'm a little clumsy this evening. oh well, i can always redo it only better. any suggestions?

i'll get back to you when i start going for it with tha wallpaper styles.

[» phong]

lyoness,
this is a great piece,
it's really sweet- I love the attention to detail
and interlocking of the ness.

do the dots and characters on the outer circles have particular meaning
or are they random acts of alien language?

two suggestions I might have would be to
lighten the blue interlocking network pattern over the whole piece
and to create some patterned ambience for the backdrop,
lending it's form from the eminations of the inner patternition.

I am concentrating on it now
and new patterns continue to reveal themselves.

a wonderful balance of colors and shapes.
again, sweet piece and thanks for sharing.

[» lunaya]

note from future pod:self :

this was a development on the previous piece
unfortunately in the flow of change, it has been lost
broken image fixed

note to future-future pod admin self :

please delete this post

[» lunaya]

whooooaah... i just saw that piece in someone else's monitor, and it loox awful compared to waht i've been looking at. really darkened out and not too good *oy*. gotta get those monitor settings figured out i guess there's some kind of standard setting, is there anyone in the house who knows what that is? is there some trick to it?

*giggle* back to the drawing board ...

[» air]

Loving your explorative presence, Princess Birch of the Silver Bow.
Download this image - Drag it into your layered PSD - Set layer property
to Screen. Duplicate it first, drag it around, free transform it, adjust
the opacity, 'speriment all kinda ways with it!


>> Glam Tutorial
A good technique to introduce at this point would be the glam : ness.
Crafting visual slices of the infinite often requires glowitech.
I will make more technicular tutorials soon.

[» lunaya]

ooh ... ... ...

oh yes, i do have a certain curiosity about me
is all bright thanx:asis to tha air kin:exus
and *horah* for tutorials!

now, when i set the layer property to screen (by typing the word screen into that field there?), what does that do? i didn't notice any change really... am i missing something?

L

[» air]

This:


Should get you this:


>> This is silly.
... and yet, it is an example of
what 5-10 minutes of fiddling might get you.

[» lunaya]

alright.

clarified, inspired, and ready to go. lyoness hitz tha studio.

xoxoxo

[» lunaya]

note from future pod self :

sadly, this exploration of air's tutorial luminance
has, as an image, been lost in the spectral flows of life
broken link fixed

note to future-future pod admin self :

please delete this post