On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:44:35 -0400, Wizard of Draws
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On 10/13/06 12:23 AM, in article ,
"The Magician" wrote:
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:37:56 -0400, Wizard of Draws
wrote:
On 10/12/06 7:50 PM, in article ,
"The Magician" wrote:
Been searching for some kind of Engraved/Woodcut effect like they do on faces in the New York Times.
I was wondering what the actual process is that they use in the newspaper… and if it’s possible to achieve it using Photoshop. I tried a few filters by Andromeda, etc., but so far have not found a filter or a way to duplicate this effect exactly.
Any ideas…?
Here’s an example:
http://www.edimsum.net/archives/vagabond/vagabond031902.jpg
Thanks a bunch!
Da Magish
What you see in that picture tells you all you need to know. It’s done by hand and as far as I know, there’s no filter that will duplicate that effect. Probably never will be a filter that can do it with the same ‘feeling’ that a human is capable of.
Well truthfully, I’m not so sure about that.
I think the picture is actually a faked or trick photograph done for a "whimsical look"…
"The artist drawing an exact duplicate of herself on a mirror". It looks to me like she just posed for it, and someone monkeyed with the mirror reflection after the fact. I think it would be damn near impossible for the artist there to actually duplicate that frozen, EXACT mirror image perpective of herself… mainly because she’s looking at it from an entirely different angle than what we (the camera) is seeing. So HER perspective would look much different to US if she were drawing what SHE saw.
(I hope dat makes sense…)
And they do that very same look for EVERY headshot of article authors and key figures in the New York Times… EVERY single day. I’m not exactly sure what the process USED to be called… woodcut, engraved… or how the used to do it…but I figure it must take an awful lot of time to do that by hand (drawing, engraving, or woodcutting) and it’s probably extremely costly to get someone to do it by hand these days as well. And I don’t think they actually do things like "paste-up" & "airbrushing" etc. anymore thanks to computers, desktop publishing and things like Photoshop etc. So I kinda figured that in these modern, photoshopped, cost effective, time conservative days… there must be a faster, cheaper process to achieve that effect.
Only my thoughts and opinion.
But then again… wuddo I know… yanno…?
Check out:
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/journal/object.htm
Wow. My hat’s off to you sir… your absolutely right.
Datz amazing work.
I woulda bet da farm on it being some sort of
mezzotint/engraved/etched or woodcut kinda process.
Kinda explains why some pictures done like that sometimes appeared slightly "off" on occaision, and looked drawn to me. It was truly a lesson learned for me.
Thanks.
There’s been a few "artisitic looks" that I’ve been trying to achieve via Photoshop, etc. And that was one of them… oh well. Back to da drawing board… LITERALLY I guess.
While I got your attention…
any ideas about the process of turning photos into "Lichtensein-type comicbook popart"?
After much searching, I could only find ONE tutorial really.
This one:
http://tutorialoutpost.com/view/4036 And no matter what I do… it just doesn’t come out exactly like it’s supposed to, and the way it comes out in that tutorial.
The coloring, halftoning and all are cake work…
but it’s the line art that just doesn’t work via that tute. The whole "Threshold thing" just doesn’t produce nice clean lineart as in the tutorial or like on the website below.
I’ve tried tracing it in Illustrator and Coreldraw, but it just doesn’t come out clean.
But there must be a fairly workable and 100% dependable way to do it, because this guy is making a decent buck out of doing it…
http://www.allpopart.com/samples_gallery.php It actually look kinda like vector art.
I just can’t seem to figure out how it’s done.
Any thoughts…?
BTW, I love your work on your site.
Thanks again buddy!
da magish