The Menacing Dummy
A prop mannequin transformed into a sinister being.
DIGITAL ART
Fran
4/28/20241 min read
My friends Veronica and Michel run a cultural center in my city. Recently, during my hunt for textures, I was there and took photos of a couple of dummies they had hanging outside, in the patio, and were used as props in their latest play, with the idea of using them to make a digital intervention (with textures, of course).
The result of the work on the first mannequin looks quite unsettling and somewhat menacing, although I acknowledge that the expression of the eyes in the original photograph and possibly the framing were significant contributors to the outcome.
I was quite pleased with the result above but feeling that the photo had more potential, I then created a second version, even more sinister than the first.
In the next post, I will share the results of my work on the second mannequin.