Surrealism

The base of this image is once again a photograph my my friend Tom. As such, I think I'll just link to his deviantArt here: http://326159487z.deviantart.com

What I did for this image was first to toy around a lot with the base. It looks really unnaturally lit at this point, which is sort of what I was going for. I also used a red layer set to "color" with a layer mask that just covered the eye. Then, I duplicated the color layer and set it to "color dodge." The odd circuit-heart symbol is my vector art. I actually have a much sharper version on my computer, since this is a symbol I use pretty much everywhere. However, this image is my attempt to replicate the image using a pen vector. It turned out okay, although it's messier than the image it's based off if. Finally, the futuristic-looking things coming out of his eyeball are actually a picture of a chandelier in my cousins' house in Pittsburgh. I basically slid right underneath it and snapped a picture. In order to further the illusion, I duplicated the layer, locked the transparent pixels, then colored the image black to give a silhouette. Then, I moved it below its source, used free transform to stretch it, blurred it, and finally set the layer to "overlay" to give the impression of a shadow.