Before & After: Street View

Street View

Before & After, a series that brings a peek into the creative process of creating mobile art and photography.

This piece started as street photography, an iPhoneography shot of a mannequin in a shop window. A few months later this image took new shape, through my participation in a prompt at Breaking New Ground hosted at iPhoneArt. The theme was to use Pop Dot Comics HD, an app that helps you "create comic-book style illustrations". I picked this image as my starting point because a mannequin is reminds me of the stylised characters of many comic books. 

Browse the slideshow below to see my creative process, and after that a list of the apps I used to create this piece. I hope you enjoy the creative journey! 

Mannequin

My original iPhone photo shot with the camera app Hipstamatic.

Comic-book inspired halftone

Halftone created with the Pop Dot Comic app. 

More dots!

Here I've created a variation in the app Part. 

Halftone Photomontage

Here's a take on creating a photomontage with the different parts I've made. At this point I felt like I was almost there, but something more rough or contrasting was missing... 

Edited in Decim8

I decided I needed to "mess up" this image more, so I edited it in the app Decim8. 

My Final Image

Final image, composited in the app Layover.
 

Apps I used to create this photomontage:

• Camera app Hipstamatic

• Pop Dot Comics HD (comic book, halftone style)

• Part™ create geometric art work in a simple, intuitive interface

• Decim8. "a digital tool for photographic destruction"

• Layover to create the photomontage. "a fun photography app that lets you blend the colors and textures of up to five pictures to create a single image"

For more app tips and tutorials, check out our library of Free Tutorials and Guides for Mobile Photography and Art