First off, for me, art means freedom. Everyone is free to create whatever they wish. There are no restrictions and no limits. You can give your creativity free rein, mix whatever styles you wish, combine whatever techniques you like, and use whatever media you want.
Hence, there is no ‘correct‘ way of ‘How to do lowbrow art‘, either.
In the following passages, I’m going to show you my personal story of how I am doing lowbrow art.
As I always use my face in my artworks, I need to modify my features to mold them into the typical doll-like lowbrow style.
That means to enlarge the eyes, change the facial proportions, and resize nose and chin area to achieve the desired look.
So, if you like to see the basic steps that I apply to create my lowbrow photomanipulations, you’re welcome to follow me along! And then, if you wish, you can do your own lowbrow art with your own self…
I’m going to show you my basic work process with an image that I did back in 2012 – one of my first photomanipulations in the area of pop surrealism / lowbrow.
Just like any other artist, I started out by emulating my favorite pieces of art. ‘Evola’ by SleepySh on DeviantArt is a piece that I absolutely loved at the time and still love today.
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‘Evola’ is a digital painting, and in ‘Broken Dreams’ I tried to mimic the main characteristics, mainly the facial features, using my own face and manipulating it accordingly. I added a bit of my own vision with the splashing heart in her hands to illustrate the concept of ‘broken dreams’.
Of course, ‘Broken Dreams’ is not for sale. However, it’s still available on my DeviantArt account.
Even though my style has changed significantly over the years, the basic steps are still the same!