Drawing Flies 52 – 13_No-Hackle
Drawing Flies 52 No-Hackle Dun. Pen-and-ink on paper, scanned, and then manipulated via the scan itself and in Adobe Photoshop. Jeff started the whole “digital” aspect of this DF 52 series, but since I am going to be doing a lot more digitally manipulated images for the upcoming book series, I figured I’d do another this way, although using different software.
Tech info: This is another draw-and-digitize piece, going for a very old-school, copper-plate kind of feel. Used my scanning software to get the base image looking a certain way in black-and-white, and then brought it into Photoshop for further adjustment.
The process was actually little more than what I’d use to scan a basic line-drawing, but the trick came in the threshold used to acquire the black. Once I had that set high enough, I go the effect that I was after on the base image. Once into Photoshop, I tweaked the levels a bit more to get the right sense of a carbon-like ink over-saturating soft, thick paper (or a cave wall, as my wife, Kel, said). I then tossed on a photo filter (used one of the base filters in Photoshop, tweaked to get the right amount of saturation), and the image was basically done. A quick sharpening filter was added to grain things up a bit more, and then File–>Save.
Jeff’s No-Hackle is here. Sounds like Jeff had a tough day on which to deal with 30 minutes of drawing stress. Sorry to hear that, my friend, but you still pulled of your signature painting look (nice dubbing!) with that beautiful new background stuff you’ve been doing. I’d love to see a wall of that background…
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I am thinking even older school than copper plate-cave painting! It reminds me of one of the Lascaux drawings. I’ll be interested to see the paper on which you choose to print this one. Love you!
Yeah, I can see that. I’ll have to see if I can ram some heavy, hand-made paper through the ink-jet for a print.