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Amazing Photoshop Art Picture Gallery
The pictures have two or more “worlds” inside them and these worlds try to communicate or interact together. People trying to exit a photo presented inside the image. A person jumping into a frame. The image on your computer screen physically interacting with the user in front of the [...]

Bruce Willis posing with Guillaume Jean
Photo Album with funny pictures of my classmates in 2004 at the Paris XII 12 University in the MSG (Maitrise des Sciences de la Gestion) course.

Here’s a list of my friends names featured on the funny pics:
Guillaume Jean - Aurore Devred - Jean-philippe Michel - Karine Morin -Mike Lopez - [...]

Do you recognize any of those faces?
I spent quite a while finding all the photos and preparing this Faces Graphic. I have inserted two male faces, can you tell which ones they are? All the rest are supposed to be female faces. There are approximately 70 different faces. If you look closely, you’ll see I [...]

ART DRAWINGS - VISUAL ART DRAWING by XARJ
18 drawings created on 2001 - 2002 - 2003, some in Montreal, some in London and some in Paris. Average time to create the drawings; 4 hours.
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MORE ART DRAWINGS ::
Colored Mr Smiley :: Drawings 4 :: Drawings 3 [...]

The Perception Laboratory’s Face Transformer
You can use the Perception Laboratory’s Face Transformer to change the age, race or sex of a facial image, to transform it to the style of a famous artist, to make an exagerated caricature or even make an ape of yourself!
CLICK HERE TO TRY WITH YOUR PHOTO

XARJ ORIGINAL PHOTO

EAST-ASIAN

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Mr. Colored Smiley in this Artsy photo series - Andy Warhol style. Mr. Smiley is made from french chewing gum chewed in the South of France! You can see different combinations made in PhotoShop. I find this Andy Warhol style so simple yet so effective!

MORE ARTSY : Drawings - More Drawings - Another Drawing

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Xarj Drawings - Blog post #4
I usually prefer to draw in black but once in a while i have some fun with colored pens. Remeber i do not think about the drawing when i draw! My hand moves on its own. Subconscient drawings! Haven’t found any powerful [...]

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Drawings by Xarj #3 !
Here are the next four drawings for your enjoyment! On the bottom right drawing, find the LINE OF SYMMETRY. So on both sides of this LINE, the exact same things appear. Like a mirror reflecting. I always use a ruler and many color markers [...]

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Two drawings by the famous Natalia Nehm from Montreal Canada.
One drawing by John Archambault aka: VDK aka: VooDoo Knight Anime specialist! From St-Basile-le-Grand on the Montreal South Shore.
Last drawing by myself, the great XarJ!
FREE TIME! LOTS OF IT! [...]

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Drawings by Xarj - Images 1 to 4.
I drew those complex images in 2001. Back then i lived in St-Bruno in Canada, near Montreal. Living with my sister Sevi! After Canada, i left to UK, North London, studying at the London Met University. I have to admit i had a lot of [...]