Zombie Spuds

Cleaning up my hard drive and I came across these Zombie Spuds.

I know you are thinking WTH but here's the story.

Most of you know that I like to doodle, usually with a pencil and scrap piece of paper but sometimes I doodle on the computer using Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator.

About a month ago we had a sack of potatoes that were going bad, getting all wrinkly and starting to sprout all sort of nonsense.

While I was in the process of tossing them out I wondered what a potato zombie would look like, I know this may not make the most sense but it was enough to motivate me to take a few quick photos of the potatos, load the pics in Photoshop and conjure up some Zombie Spuds.

Zombie Spuds.

Not sure why but it had to be done.

Digital Makeup

For several years I have been experimenting with a variety of techniques to apply “digital makeup” to photographs of faces and bodies.

The process involved creating a library of different elements, texture and effects then using Photoshop to composite all the different elements.

The current library consists of about 5,000 different elements such as skin textures, hair, blisters, boils, wrinkles, drips, splatters, teeth, etc.

The following photos are some test composites I have completed. Each of these samples started by taking a high resolution photo of my head and shoulders in front of a green screen, I shot many different poses and many different expressions. The green screen allows me to remove the background and work with a very clean “cut-out” of just my face.

One of my thoughts is that these “characters” would work well for haunted portraits. Any other ideas?