More Tukti graphics

I have found words very stressful since 2020. First it was Covid, now it’s the insanity happening in the US. What’s the point of writing fiction when reality is so awful? So to save my sanity, I’ve been playing with graphics instead:

I can’t paint, so everything in this graphic is created using copyright free photos that I have snipped and shaped using Corel Draw X8.

To give you some idea of the process, the scene above is made up of 105 individual ‘bits’. Some, like that glorious sunset are single images, others, like the red Vokh flying in the sky are made up of multiple bits:

The pale bits are transparencies that help create the illusion of 3 dimensionality using light and shade. And all of those bits came from just one photo:

That lobster has become one of my most valuable images because of its beautiful gradations of colour, and the play of light across its carapace. And it’s a copyright free photo as well.

I wish I could paint like some of you, but at the end of the day, we all have to find our own creative medium, and when words fail, this is mine.

Cheers,
Meeks