So I have this file full of horny self-portraits. A while back I dropped a copy of Sandro Botticelli’s famous painting The Birth Of Venus into it with the intent of doing a self-portrait version as part of a charisma/beauty/glamour sell – what’s gonna be more attractive than sticking yourself in the middle of the most famous depiction of the Roman goddess of beauty and love that Western European culture has produced?
The other day I finally spent a while working over this, and got this far.
There’s a bit of a double entendre here that I couldn’t pass up; for the first fourteen versions of Illustrator’s life, its splash screen and icon was based on the same painting. So I added in a magic wand with the Astute Graphics logo around it, because a lot of the new features that’ve transformed my workflow in this program have been from their plugins, not Adobe. Adobe’s barely added anything for my needs; the past few years have been largely dedicated to typing words into a box, sending them to a server, getting back some AI image-generation slop, and auto-tracing that. Pretty much the antithesis of what I use it for.
Maybe I’ll finish this sometime soon, maybe not. I like how it’s going so far so I thought I’d post it here.