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Binding Ritual
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Hi everyone!

This is a CD cover design I did for fun and practice. It's a plain photomanipulation work this time, and although I don't very often get to create in this style, I love dark art very much so this one I still keep in good regard.

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The art is inspired by a [song by Samael](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uK6qBpssKQ) and it all started with a stock photo from [Dewfooter](https://www.deviantart.com/dewfooter). This guy has *amazing* stock for medieval characters and it's all free (please still check his rules if you choose to use it).

A lot of the artwork is based on heavy use of Analog Efex 2 from the [Nik Collection plug-ins](https://nikcollection.dxo.com/?awc=18165_1596738867_14b80430ea372492718af4e0619a8cdc&utm_source=affiliation&utm_medium=awin) (I'm using an older version that used to be free, and that I believe you can still find legally somewhere in the internets).

There aren't that many things that the filters do that you couldn't do yourself in Photoshop but the offer is so large that you would need to know a lot of different techniques. One way or the other, using filters for certain things can just save a lot of time.

Since I always use those plug-ins, I generally try stuff with them early in the process. I save that filter setting in a Smart Object so that I can paste the effect over again once I'm ready to test. I could also just save a filter preset instead, but I found quickly that I end up with dozens of them and it's very unhealthy. :D

In the process animation the filter isn't visible but for most of the time I worked knowing how what I was doing was going to look like in the final version.

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![bindingritualanimation.gif](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/rowye/4QtF5hjm-binding-ritual-animation.gif)

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Here are the stocks I used:

https://dewfooter.deviantart.com/art/Black-Death-6-310174129 by <a href="https://dewfooter.deviantart.com/">Dewfooter</a>
https://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/art/Time-of-the-Dark-K-1-125905154 - 1 by <a href="https://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/">mjranum-stock</a>
https://elandria.deviantart.com/art/1923-08-UNRESTRICTED-564262189 by <a href="https://elandria.deviantart.com/">Elandria</a>
https://frozenstocks.deviantart.com/art/UNRESTRICTED-Graves-PNG-Files-131571528 by <a href="https://frozenstocks.deviantart.com/">frozenstocks</a>
https://frankandcarystock.deviantart.com/art/Snake-443596624 by <a href="https://frankandcarystock.deviantart.com/">FrankAndCarySTOCK</a>
https://yellowicous-stock.deviantart.com/art/mountain-goat-4-493170811 by <a href="https://yellowicous-stock.deviantart.com/">yellowicous-stock</a>
https://evelivesey.deviantart.com/art/Porto-Cathedral-354016567 by <a href="https://evelivesey.deviantart.com/">EveLivesey</a>
https://cgartiste.deviantart.com/art/Tainted-407405310 by <a href="https://cgartiste.deviantart.com/">cgartiste</a>
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeross/4571525121 by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeross/">Joe Ross</a>
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterscherub/24037457584](https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterscherub/24037457584/in/photolist-DzBH8n-CC7fFS-D8v28q-D283RV-CsDdjL-CCrWzF-DhK6fn-DmERqh-CWSnQ1) by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterscherub/">Judy Dean</a>
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/grongar/6967655772](https://www.flickr.com/photos/grongar/6967655772/in/photolist-bBH4j5-dUyh6X-8nvCAX-bALNP6-efj4jq-dUyhwn-cg6o4G-pCfwUM-cg5NGY-pUFawg-cg62vy-cg6jj7-bnS6qm-8pzxME-8ENZk9-8pwrHa-8pzwNC-b2hmS4-dxz7c5-a5U8YL-eiKn9d-8Qi6Eb-e9Ncig-b2hdf8-dUyfpk-enXn5R-dxz4HW-8QeY4X-dxtH88-d4u5iw-8WU7nV-d4Fywy-bVPPuh-b2h12i-8pwq58-9C2uEi-bBH6wq-9C5r8h-8EKPSa-9C2uet-9m9vGF-8pwjPz-9C5qZU-b2gGfT-dUDRhq-p1wgwg-pUvfzZ-aAyy34-buM3M3-8vCfSm) by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/grongar/">Rebecca Siegel</a>
https://www.flickr.com/photos/paulodonnell/5065574165 by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/paulodonnell/">Paul O'Donnell</a>

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If you enjoy my art, you can also find me in other sites:

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<b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/digitalrowye/">Instagram</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiOVaGb9mrBArt-ZIeu6s8w">YouTube</a>
<a href="https://www.artstation.com/rowye">ArtStation</a>
<a href="https://www.deviantart.com/rowye">DeviantArt</a>
<a href="https://www.behance.net/rogercreus9c71">Behance</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/digitalrowye">Facebook</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/roger_creus_art">Twitter</a>
<a href="https://makersplace.com/store/roger_creus_art/">Makersplace</a>
<a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/rowye">Prints and more</a></b>

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@adedayoolumide · 
That's great work,posting this was good to me,always happy seeing things about artist .. God bless you
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@rowye · 
I'm glad you liked it, thank you! :D
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@faffy · 
This is so cool! I really like it. I admire your work.
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@rowye · 
:D Happy you like it, thank you very much!
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@hivebuzz · 
Congratulations @rowye! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

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<sub>_You can view [your badges on your board](https://hivebuzz.me/@rowye) And compare to others on the [Ranking](https://hivebuzz.me/ranking)_</sub>
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To support your work, I also upvoted your post!
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@juliakponsford · 
I'm a huge fan of your work! I am leading a new project called @nftshowroom where you can tokenize your art and sell it, I would love for you to join! You can check out the @nftshowroom account or come visit the [discord](https://discord.gg/PuEeYuK) if you have any questions!
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@rowye · 
@juliakponsford :D It never gets old to know someone likes your work, thank you so very much. I really appreciate!

I'm on Makersplace and after trying it I felt that it is not for me because of how long it takes me to complete a single artwork and because I lose the rights to sell them to clients once I post them there. Is this something similar? I am up to check it out for sure, but also I have to make sure it works for me. :)
Either way thank you so much for the offering and sorry for the late reply.
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@juliakponsford · 
I' also on makersplace and a few other ETH platforms and yeah the gas fees are so high rn and I have heard people are waiting a week to tokenize on makersplace, crazy!

We have two options for your token:
Private means you retain the full copyright to your image. The buyer may display the art as part of their collection or resell it on the secondary market.

Full Commercial means you are selling the full commercial rights to your work. This means the buyer can do whatever they like with the image for profit. That could include using it on a commercial website, using it on printed merch etc.

Since you work a lot in the commercial area it's more tricky, if you are selling someone a commercial work it shouldn't really be sold again, I imagine the person who made the commisssion may not be happy?, but if you ever feel like making art outside of your commercial work feel free to hop on :)
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@khaleesii · 
I just can't help but imagine a scenario by looking at this art, this would be such an amazing cover for a book or movie. As a horror/ mystical movies addict, I'm impressed.
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@rowye · 
:D I had a couple offers to make it a CD cover which is what I originally intended it for, but for one reason or another it never happened... yet. xD
Glad you liked, thank you!
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@khaleesii · 
You did amazing
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