This is another in the series of predetermined captions. Nancy McMillin was kind enough to suggest the phrase “Don’t just sit there with your teeth in your mouth” and this is almost exactly what I pictured when I read the line.
In the GIMP, I brought in a picture of myself, and a picture of some gnarly teeth. I selected my jaw from the photo, then cut and pasted it as a new layer. I placed the teeth behind the hole where my jaw had been, by placing that layer behind my photo. I rotated the jaw layer and moved it below the teeth in the image, as the top most layer. I worked to recreated the goatee in a the image by cloning.
If I did it again, I’m sure I could make it more believable, but one sketch a day makes time a luxury. I’m sure I’ll use the technique in future sketches. Thanks, Nancy, and everybody please keep the captions coming!
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This is simultaneously totally fake and yet totally real looking. I can’t stop inspecting it…I can’t get over what a great job of melding these images you did! I mean, I know it’s fake and yet, to paraphrase MST3K, I can’t see the strings. Superb! (and really creepy).
Thanks, Paul! Like I said, when I’m trying a technique for the first time, it can be a little rough, but I’m sure if I took another crack at it it would be more believable. It’s very reassuring that you can’t see the strings. It means a lot. 🙂