Uh…Wasn’t there a bike there a second ago???
A befuddled onlooker
I had initially started on this design as part of my Design 365 series in my last year of college. This piece, the Vanishing Bicycle, quickly became one of my most challenging and time consuming personal design projects to date.
While removing the bicycle didn’t take long, sampling pieces of the image to recreate the parts of the cyclist that were once covered by the bike took hours on end. I started by sampling pieces of other riders, like a knee, and adding them to the broken cyclist. I then blended these samples with clone stamp, making the image look and feel organic. I used retouching to ensure a consistency in aspects like brightness and contrast in the lighting. Any pieces of the image that were not sampled, I painted in by hand with the brush tool. Aside from one logo on the cyclist’s shorts that was placed in from the outside to replace a piece that was partially cut out along with the bicycle, everything I used came from within the source image itself. As long as this project took, I am incredibly proud of the result. “The Vanishing Bicycle” remains one of my favorite projects to this day.
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