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Dead Reflection Series

Dead Reflection Series

This series symbolizes the mental health side to art. Although I absolutely love making art work every day I find that it really impacts my mental health. Looking at images from around the world and creating this imaginative mind really puts me down sometimes. These pieces symbolize a part of me. The dead part of me that isn't truly visible to the eyes unless you truly knew who I was. I suffer from severe anxiety and this is something I feel is in the dead reflection side of me. 

I hope you can connect in some way towards my dead reflection series.
These were all designed using Photoshop. The skeletons were placed as 3D elements from PixelSquid. Using the brush settings in Photoshop I was able to blend the lighting into the elements balancing the environment. Placing my color presets I've built I am able to achieve the color tones that I do to match throughout the entire collection.

Below is a step-by-step process of a single image layer build up.


Dead Reflection Series
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Dead Reflection Series

Dead Reflection is a Photoshop surreal image manipulation designed by Shaun Ryken

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