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Finally, we reach the end of my picspam and, given that today is the first of October, it is an appropriately creepy image. I copied one half of the girl's face and superimposed it, slightly off kilter, over the original then modified the color and texture. Her skin was painted gray to give her a corpse-like pallor and stitching was added at her wrist and neck to suggest a Frankenstein-like origin. I think the greens and pinks in the image provide a nice contrast.
Honestly, if I met this girl walking down the street, I'd probably stare and feel a bit badly for her, but I don't know if I'd think of her as 'ugly.'

Finally! A pic that I actually like! This was another in the series of photomanips set in the same world as Meta and China's Problem Children. The image is an advertisement for a metahuman musician named Burt Neece, pictured in the image, and his latest album, called Pipedreams. Neece is a kind of Human Torch character so I was really happy with how the image came out.
The male image in this pic is actually a well known American musician. Ten points to anyone who can correctly identify him.

The Pollack in the pic title refers to Rachel Pollack, a writer and artist that I have mixed feelings about. Sadly, I don't have mixed feelings re the image: I don't like it. I think it crossed the line from surreal absurdism into the fields of the irritatingly stupid. It feels like there's just too much going on. I hate it, but I'm posting it anyway because I spent a lot of time on it, trying to correct the faults. Pity I failed.

Put this image together a few days ago for a story I had in mind inspired by the G20 demonstration in Pittsburgh.
In the story, a Pro-Metahuman march in Pittsburgh degenerates into a riot. I got about three pages in before the story fizzled. My writing muse seems to have gone on holiday.

I've been bitten by the photoshopping bug again and, bored, created the above image.
Actually, in retrospect, I think Katy Perry wouldn't make a bad Carmen San Diego. What do y'all think?