hello all :), i hope you're all enjoying your summer so far. mine has gotten off to a great start. i've been vacationing for a little over a month and i am feeling preetty darn good at the moment. todays piece is a manip of a photo i took recently featuring my personal heroes, jen,amanda,jim and rebekka some of my long time friends and coworkers.we were at our local pub's weekly jam session when i noticed they were sort of sitting as if posing for an ad for the 'heroes' tv show (needless to say i'm a fan lol). luckily since a few months i've had my camera with me when we've hung out together to capture all our crazy moments and memories. it took a few shots to actually get the right angles and expressions without them really trying to pose it. from there it was off to my trusty ps.what happened then is a complete mystery. i found that some of the filters i use are completely unpredictable when combined with line art or cartooning filters and actions.so much so that i don't have a clue how the effects here came about. i repeated the process several times as layers but i won't ever be 100% sure it would work the same for anyone else the same way because of the behavior of the filters and my ps version.at some point i may ask someone to take a crack at it to see if some of you comic artists might have a use for this style.at the moment i'm doing a set of manips featuring more of my friends.i can't wait to see what i'll learn this go round. at any rate i am as always grateful for the kind words you've written on my images as well as the many favs and i hope you enjoy this one just as much. *hugs and regards* lee