Photoshop Non-entry

I missed the entry deadline for the "in stitches" competition on Worth1000.com, but here's what I had done before I realized that submissions were no longer being taken.

The idea was to take a picture of a cartoon character and turn it into an iron-on patch design. This, of course, is Captain Planet. He's a hero. Gonna take pollution down to zero, etc.

I changed technique a couple of times throughout the long process of drawing stitches line-by-line, and I had to adjust again when I tried working from my own computer, which doesn't have Photoshop (I used Gimp, which has a lot of the same functionality, but not quite as much power, and it's not as intuitive as Photoshop).

One of the key filters that is needed to pull off the illusion of stitches (bevel) wasn't included on Gimp, so I had to play around with settings until I found a suitable alternative.