The Friday Illo theme this week is 'Electricity'. It's funny, because a couple of weeks ago, that was the Photo Friday theme. I didn't want to just recycle an old drawing, but could think of nothing earlier. So today, the day before the new Friday theme, while listening to the radio, a safety message aired, and an idea flashed into my mind. As I was doing a little research, I learned May is National Electrical Safety Month, which probably explains its use as a theme. Although I had a plug from which I drew, I thought on a whim I'd check Wikipedia. There, I learned that electric plugs look different in different areas of the world, but usually of a general enough 3 prong scheme so my sample should be recognizable internationally. Also, I learned that in the United Kingdom, instead of using the term 'grounded', they use the term 'earthed'. Let's see, how did I do this image? First, I did a line drawing with a micron pen, scanned it, cleaned it up, turned it grayscale instead of bitmap, did 'neon' filter, inverted it, did hue inversion so back to red, then did 'glowing edges' filter. I saved that as a different png. Went back to previous versions, and copy~n~pasted the red bits and the white lettering, and then picked a teal blue and black and did 'difference clouds' to get a sky feel. Also, I did some touch ups to make the lettering over the lightning crack show better, and filled in the cord with a reddish hue.

   

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