'Recovering From (This Week's) Seizure'

This was my first attempt at serious 'postwork' i.e. dicking about with the image in a Paintshop-style program after rendering. The man and bed were left as they were. The background was messed up in various ways, to try and show how the world around you seems messed up when you're having a seizure. Then the pair were kind of welded together. It doesn't really work. Partly because of the annoying line which persisted around the figure. But mainly because you can't portray a seizure just using jazzy special effects. And the lighting, which makes the mattress glow like a candle, is ludicrous. I tried a similiar thing recently, with a new program and a whole year of experience to back me up. It also didn't work.

The figure originally wasn't supposed to be me. But any epilepsy image I do is going to turn into a self-portrait sooner or later; so eventually I just went for it. Not a bad likeness, though of course I never wear jeans. The dark patch on the mattress is supposed to be drool, an endearing feature of many of my seizures.