The crustacean photographed
I live in a coastal city, so I've had the opportunity to observe many marine animals, and crabs have always endeared themselves to me: they're scary, but also grumpy, and the face doesn't help. Check the horror science fiction filmography and you will find sea creatures behind the faces of extraterrestrial monsters.
They are also little animals that know how to overcome their natural prevention and show their faces, tweezers included, if the situation gets ugly. My broom has had a few run-ins with them. They tend to get into houses when the tide comes in and they have to be put in a box and transported back to the beach.
I am very fond of them, I'm not lying, and I think they are beautiful. I have also tasted some very tasty ones.
This is the photo of the nice crustacean that @shaka gave us to make our collages. May I apologize for turning it into a creature of war.
I imagined the crustacean in shaka's photo as the mount of some fantastic being, but I didn't know what that being would be, until I decided to go to Make Human and make these demonic women.
The situation is this:
War is happening. In the battle, some of these creatures have died. Others have managed to survive and win. In the background we can see these twins opening the portal for the invasion. The land they are fighting for is Paradise.
From the famous and beautiful painting of Garden of Eden, by Lucas Cranach the Elder(1472–1553) came all the color I put.
The colors of Hell are the colors of Paradise
I accentuated the orange tones of the demon women to harmonize with the fruit of the sacred tree. I also drew a tongue, a proboscis, for the fiery warrior who occupies the central place. I always knew she should have a butterfly tongue.
I added this tongue to the warrior. I drew it with colors and then applied filters in Gimp.
I hope the scene has the dynamism I wanted to give it.
Finally, I added a grain effect to the collage to unify some textures. Sometimes I want my work to show the union of the pieces in a rough way; other times my intuition tells me that I should soften these things, and so I do.
I hope this work is enjoyed by friends.
The witches were made with Make Human, an open source program I learned about from the amazing @Quantum.
If you're artistically inclined, join the community contest Let's Make a Collage. I assure you that you will grow. I'll leave you here the call for Round 74. Check out the rules. And, if you're new, read this post by @eve66, it tells you everything you need to know to get started: Basic tools to create your first Collage in the Let's Make a Collage Community/ Herramientas básicas para crear tu primer Collage (ENG-ESP).