Broken
It's really crazy bust at the moment with school, I think I'll be a little bit broken soon
(For illustrationfriday.com)
Creating Screen tone effect in Photoshop
Also known as zipatone, Ben-Day dots, halftones etc For this tutorial a basic knowledge of Photoshop, colour modes, resolution, history and layers pallete, copy and paste functions will help. It is often desirable to achieve screen tones for artwork for either practicality or for effect. What ever you need it for I am going to show you the most effective way to achieve this using Photoshop. If you can master this, then there is no need to track down real zipatone and fiddle around with cutting it up. The middle section on ‘creating dot patterns’ is fixed although how you create your grey areas and how you use the dot pattern is up to you. Firstly this tutorial has nothing to do with the halftone pattern in the Filter menu. In my mind this filter gives a poor, hard to control, and fuzzy result. Which is not suitable when you need real screen tones for something like screen printing. Creating greys First open the artwork you want to add screen tones to; Be sure that this a...
Please don't splodge into a big pool of ooze! Break artisically, try throwing paint at a wall (or teacher) };-}
ReplyDeleteGreat image :)
No time...for...paint...too late...gurgle...urggh!!
ReplyDeletehehe, nice illustration!
ReplyDelete*Wham Bang Pow* Improvise with your inky fingers!!!
ReplyDeleteNICE illo!! Happy Halloween!
ReplyDeleteDon't struggle you'll just sink quicker.
ReplyDeletelove
Darn-where is a pillow to punch when you need one! Interesting take. Sounds like a vacation may be in order?
ReplyDeletei know the feeling. It was crazy when I was in Art School. I really like your style and I am looking forward to seeing more of your great illustrations.
ReplyDeleteahhh...i remmber those days. i never got a single non-art project finished during my BFA days. great take on the topic and winter break isn't too far away. ;)
ReplyDeleteor is it spring break? :)
ReplyDeleteIt's actually the summer break over christamas and new years here in Aus. I'm going back to do my honors year in late feb ;)
ReplyDeleteNah, you're standing on the bottom really and there doesn't appear to be any sign that the water levels rising - so a bit waterlogged maybe, but not broken!
ReplyDeleteNice linework - I particularly like the built up lines for textures in the hair and clothes and the writing itself as a texture.
You'll do it, man!