You will have all noticed recently that I have a shiny new toy to play with. Namely in the form of the spanking artwork I am creating and posting to my DEVIANTART account. Today I will be making another post about this, but this time it is about turning thumbnail-sized images that I would never post into, at least, something worth looking at.
Before I begin, though, I want to direct you to the new story over on Spanklit. This time it is an F/F and F/M story, but it hits on two tropes that are personally appealing to me. Firstly the setting of the Summer Camp. For those of you who know my personal history from my blog, I spent 5 summers working at American Summer Camps, and from June 1988 until September 1990, I lived and worked at the camp year round. Secondly, the initial premise of the story is a birthday spanking. A spanking trope that often appears in my own stories as the bridge towards a more elaborate spanking scene, as it does on the new story on Spanklit as well. Thankfully, no Ms. Glouwer ran the camps that I worked at, otherwise she would have been mighty busy in the spanking department.
You can READ THE STORY HERE.
Now here is today’s offering, and background for an image that I turned into an art piece.
Initially this image was a thumbnail, and I was able to, in the past, increase the size of the image by about 400%. The image never had quality to begin with, so I had to manipulate lighting and hues to present something worth looking at. The original image below is still poor by my normal standards, but at least you could make out the spanking action.
It was time to go to work. First of all, I used an AI image enhancer to improve the quality, however, the picture is so poor that the only noticeable change was in the face of the lady being spanked, and the rendering was awful. On my second attempt I lowered the enhancement factor on the generator. Basically I wanted the image improved, but only a minor improvement that didn’t distort the image. Thankfully that worked.
For the final edit I then converted the image that you see above into a sketch. As that was the most likely format for success, voila, we got something half decent out of it. What do you guys think?
This image hasn’t even been posted on DeviantArt yet, but I am uploading daily pieces to that website that you won’t see on this website, so be sure to check out my DeviantArt page.
This is amazing. Truthfully I have always enjoyed this one as you posted it as a college sorority house mother spanking a young woman and I always enjoyed that explanation. I do like the new rendention, but in this one she looks older and I have to say it does enhance the women beautifully. I always love otk and the spanking is incredible. Although I do have to wonder about the missing shoe I mean I can see she might give her the slipper,but looking at the first photo it does not look like she is shoeless.great job. I do love your Deviant Art very much and I enjoy your showing the processes over here and your finished gems over there. Very well done. Have a great day.
Jim
Jim,
The page that the image is on is a generic set of campus life pics, but the description aligns. I posted it a long time ago, so perhaps I matched up the singular pics with the group pics of the sorority house, which is quite likely. As for the slipper, it didn’t escape my attention, but I had to decide if it was ‘good enough,’ or if I should keep trying. I went with the former reason. đŸ˜‰
Rich
I really like the illustration style too. Feels very much like a vintage book illustration – and a lovely image. đŸ™‚
Also, thanks so much for the story mention! I thought the theme of that one might appeal! LOL
J.
J,
It’s all good my friend, my blog is about sharing things that I like, it isn’t just pictures! Besides, the setting of the story is something that appeals to me.
I have created images in a variety of formats, and it is getting to the point where I can identify which style I want from the raw picture itself, and more importantly which style will work. What I need to do more of is the painting that I created the other day. To triple run it through various formats to develop a brand new image.
Rich