Thank you for lovely compliment, chimera. I wish I could take full credit from your words, but I can't. My preferred method of 'collage' is a bit cut&paste, combination of many layers of fragments of images. Sometimes I alter a photo, sometimes I find an image to copy in a drawing app, a stock photo (taken with mobile of course
) sometimes I take a photo of my own drawing, etc.
This one - if you look closely you'll see her arms are made out of her legs
I made the elbow gloves to disguise the wrong-shaped bits. Her face was a bit of the jellyfish, darkened by blend, and bits erased out to give the impression of a profile. Her legs (and the idea) came from an old Dubble image. Her dress was a very basic hand drawn butterfly wing (mine), decorated in SketchClub & repeated in layers about eight times.
It's a bit weird I suppose bcs no one would know so much of my various collage images are 'built' using and re-using one tiny fragment of a starter image. But very satisfying for me.