Glitch art: the sorted portrait, the corrupted cityscape, the split flower

Glitch art is the image breaking on purpose: pixel-sorting streaks, RGB channels pulled apart, datamosh smears, a portrait dissolving into scan lines. These nine render a sorted portrait, a corrupted cityscape and a channel-split flower, each across three glitch types — pixel sort, datamosh, and analog signal glitch. Ask for your own photo instead, a car, or black-and-white — the same three glitch types carry it.

• an album cover or music visual
• a tech or streaming profile graphic
• a poster or fine-art print
• a desktop or phone wallpaper
• a t-shirt or merch design reference

Frequently asked questions

What size do these render at?

Each render is composed as a full-bleed corrupted panel, suited to a poster, a wallpaper or a print.

Can I get a different subject, like my own photo or a car?

Yes — the direction field takes any subject, and the same three glitch types render it.

What's the difference between the three glitch types?

Pixel sort streaks tone into directional bands; datamosh smears motion-compression artifacts across the frame; analog glitch mimics broken video signal and scan lines.

Is this a real corrupted file or a designed effect?

It's a rendered image designed to look corrupted — no actual file damage produced it.

About toile

This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.