Rubbermaid takes a bite out of me
Rubbermaid makes me want to be free but
Rubbermaid hates the way I be
Rubbermaid is the truth of she
- TARUGOMAN

Sounds like an old STP single... could make for an interesting jam with a decent riff.

Anyway I've been looking through *t-gar 's stuff and even went through his tutorial... and I have to say, he is totally into it! I love what he's done and the style he uses. I tried to run with his tutorial, but at one point or another got lost... so ended up making a derivation of his tutorial. Notice how like burnt rubber her skin is... and how distorted her Steven Tyler mouth is...

Rubbermaid is the end result of *t-gar 's inspiration and a little more. If you check out the original stock, the reason I called it that was because I distorted the face a little. The changes are quite subtle, but I believe it made all the difference in the end.

The texture of the face was the product of layers upon layers of the same image, gaussian blur here, a desaturation there, a final levels adjustment after merging layers plus added texture layers from ~tinderstock and voila! A total dark masterpiece... at least I think so. The first one I made had a background also by ~ tinderstock but decided to leave it out because it didn't match the end photo (colors were off and perspective all wrong) and it came out better on black.

Anyway, full view please, to appreciate the Rubbermaid.

(Isn't rubbermaid like a brand of tupperware?)

Stock credits:
~neebow-stock the model
~tinderstock for the awesome leaf I used as texture

Thanks to:
*t-gar for his tutorial... and letting me put my foot into the door of darkness. You rock dude!

Check them out!