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...
I think it looks fine the way the colours are atm, nice and simple. looks awsome
ReplyDeleteYeah sometimes it's good to hold yourself back a little. I will add some textures and then compare them later
ReplyDeleteSimple and cool. What could be better than that?
ReplyDeleteHad a lot of catching up to do on your blog! Could see the initial concept of your Art Major with bottles develop to this above! Keep going!
ReplyDeleteSimple and cool… I like that description ;)
ReplyDeleteGlad you were able to drop in Frank. These drawings started as conceptual drawing for future installations but they have seemed to take on a life of their own. I am currently trying to figure out my preferred method for printing them out. I have tried lazertran as I said, which I'm happy with but I'm not sure if I've found the right combo or surface and varnish just yet. I'd also like to come up with some sort of printmaking technique for a lot of my coloured digital work, I'm thinking maybe a combo of inkjet and laser?
yeah Wacoms rock!!....but I don't have one...:S
ReplyDeleteHi Anthony!
ReplyDeleteVery cool drawings, congratulations!
See you, best regards
I like this! great blog
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments ;)
ReplyDeleteNice fun piece of work, Mr. Woodward. I know what you mean about the tablet.
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