Here's a rather lovely picture of an owl, taken by Wikipedian Adam Kumiszcza.
I think it looks pretty heroic from the outset. But I'm wondering if it can be made to look even more heroic. To that end, I've started experimenting with, first, taking the colour out. Like so.
But it looks a bit like the tacky wildlife shirts that people buy on their holidays. So I thought that cropping it might add to the heroic look.
I think it looks pretty heroic from the outset. But I'm wondering if it can be made to look even more heroic. To that end, I've started experimenting with, first, taking the colour out. Like so.
But it looks a bit like the tacky wildlife shirts that people buy on their holidays. So I thought that cropping it might add to the heroic look.
The cropping makes it look a little more heroic, but it still lacks the fundamental propaganda poster look that I want. So I decided, as an intermediary measure, to do a little autotracing.
This resulted in a triptych of semi-heroic owls. I do, however, think that I'll need to go all-out and actually do a properly drawn version of it, to get that nice, simple propaganda poster look. I'll report back with the results.
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