art to print?
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- squiddles
Hi folks!,
I have a question, I often see artwork, (print work) that looks like it has been drawn or painted prior to going to print.
how do you achive this?
the only way i can see is tracing your original drawing/ink/whatever in illustrator or something... even so, if i did this it wouldn't look half as nice as i originally intended.
i have a couple of examples of what i mean anyway:
looks like it has been drawn, and also:
not quite sure if anyone will know what im talking about but any advice is muchly appriciated!
- auricom0
those look like screen prints.
i guess you could achieve that look in illustrator, but you would be facing some large amounts of time and patience. any style of line can be created in illustrator.
- unknown0
You can acheive that look in Photoshop as well by using spot colors at a very high-res.
- auricom0
also, check the description on the YWFT site, you'll see that they were done by hand. quite impressive. photo imulsion is another technique to do this stuff, great way to get detail.
- arterie0
auricom is probably right about those examples being screenprints.
You could do all your drawing digitally with a say a (wacom tablet ) in PS or painter, import/export vector, bitmap etc. into one file and produce a digital print.
- BonSeff0
xerox machines and scanners.
scan it in at 300 dpi, clean up the white areas. bump up the contrast a little.
- Iconolove0
Just as long as you bump up the resolution to about 600 dpi it will turn out perfect to be printed.
- squiddles0
tanks and thanks folks!
learn something new everyday! :)
most appriciated!can you pretty much scan anything and convert it to spot colours and blow it up?
- squiddles0
bump
if im making sense