Hear My Heart Break

© Sybille Sterk

Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

Illustration of my poem of the same name. Font is Amatic, as always. The lizard was a tiny common lizard in my garden. The petals are from a peony.

Read the poem here.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

On Society6:

Safe Worlds

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We're all trying to build safe worlds, for ourselves and our children, women, especially mothers even more so than everyone else. This is the unattainable dream.

See also my poem suspended

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0235

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

Dissembling - Age of Technology

 

 

First in a new series called "Dissembling"

dis·sem·ble  (d-smbl)

v. dis·sem·bled, dis·sem·bling, dis·sem·bles
1. To disguise or conceal behind a false appearance. See Synonyms at disguise.
2. To make a false show of; feign.
To disguise or conceal one's real nature, motives, or feelings behind a false appearance.

From The Free Dictionary

The series is about the different guises and masks we wear.

This particular image, the first in the series, is about the way technology changes us. From the internet to the way we interact with each other to the way it allows us to hide who we really are and what we look like to the effects it has on our every day lives from the way it brings us closer together to the second hand nature of many of the things we experience.

Just in case you're wondering, I don't think technology is an 'evil thing' but I think it sometimes changes and affects us and the way we live in unexpected ways and it's important to consider what is happening to us with technology more and more taking over.

Credits

Model

• Portrait by Blair-W

Textures

• Odds & Ends Texture Set by Shadowhouse
• Daguerreo Texture Set by Shadowhouse

Actions

• Perfect Portrait 3 Action by TheCoffeeshopBlog

All others images/textures/brushes my own:

• MM Industrial Textures Set - my own
• MM Sky Textures Set - my own
• MM Crack Brushes Set - my own

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Free Your Mind - Photo Manipulation

The antidote to Abyss.... and

illustration to accompany my poem of the same name.

Credits
Model

• morning 15 by clickypenpixieXstock

Stock

• Butterfly 42-15876680 by jjd
• Butterfly 3  by jjd
• Butterfly BXP27797 by jjd

Textures and Backgrounds

• Dandelion texture by Alison Ashwell
• Texture 55 by Inadesign-Stock
• Texture 8 by Inadesign-Stock
• 67 by sullenstock
• Sparkles 10 by PandoraLore-Stock

Brushes

• Crack Brushes I by hawksmont
• Hair brush set by para-vine

PS Custom Shapes

• Butterflies Shapes by peteandbob

All other images/textures are my own.

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Breakdown

 To accompany the lovely poem of the same name by Shar.

Credits:
 
Stock:

• Erisa 14 by Faestock (image on the far left)
• Butterfly, spiderweb, ice crystals by Alison Ashwell

Textures and Background:

• 66 by sullenstock
• Barbed Wire Stock 1 by texurestockbyhjs
• adult about this by CKdailyplanet
• texture015 by buzillo-stock
• fire textures by shin-rhys
• Backblech 04 by sundel

Brushes:

• Ice Ice Baby by Shiranui
• Crack Brushes I by hawksmont

All other images and textures my own.

Weight of a Feather - Photo Manipulation

How much weight until you reach your breaking point?

Credits:

• Alison Ashwell for storm clouds and cracked mud
• Model, Craft11 by Faestock
• Turn back time, Texture 4, Princess of Shadows:
• Hardcore Grunge, Texture 4, Princess of Shadows (Collection removed from DeviantArt)
• Feather Brush by Silinias
• Cloud Brushes HiRes Nr.1 of 5 by Leboef

The rest of the images/textures are my own.

MCN: CJNT6-LQWAY-EBF6X

Blood Rose Tears - Photo Manipulation

Illustration for the poem Blood Rose Tears by Autumnwind

Credits:

• Model, Face 1, Psamathides
• Crow, Phatpuppy
• Bird Cage, MRanum and MRanum
• Cloud brushes, Leboef
• Grasses and Plants PS Brushes, Redheadstock
• Background, Moonchild-ljilja (first on the left)
• On Crack, dazzle-textures
• Backblech 04, Sundel
• Paper Texture, Night-Fate-Stock

all other stock/textures are my own.

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