Christophe Huet

Another artist that I have found on the internet is Christophe Huet. He is a French artist who specialises in creative retouching, and produces some very high class images. One of my favourite shots by him is this one, which I think is really quite quirky and interesting.

I am going to attempt to recreate this image with some ideas of my own. First off I am going to use a real life Mr Potato Head to give the effect of the sections of the face. I photographed all of the parts of a Mr Potato Head and merging real life features in with it. Here are the pictures that I took of the features, and also the original picture of me.

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I created the nose by taking a close up of my nose and layering it over the artificial nose, but making it slightly opaque so you can still see quite a lot of the original nose underneath. With the eyes I simply took my iris and pupil of my eye and layering it over the original pupil. This was quite easy to do as the fake eye is very simply designed and didn't require any editing.

The first thing I did to my face is blur the features around to create a flat image to place the potato head on top of it. I then layered up the potato head image with all the features on top of it, and created this final image: