DIGIDOODLES - "AND THE AWARD GOES TO..."
Experimenting with bringing a bit of textural unification
to the background, rather like using the old transfer based rub-on or stick -on zip-a-tone, screentone or Letratone sheets.
I did enjoy the look of Letratone, back in the day, and I'm sure I still have some boxes of the stuff kicking around somewhere.
For the young-'uns, it was a basically a transparent film covered in tiny, regularly spaced patterns of dots. It was fiddly to use. as you had to cut it to shape on top of your drawing, but it allowed you to add 'instant' texture to pen and ink drawings to provide a quite cool looking shadowed effect. Think of it as a more mechanical way to produce stippling, which is a technique that will be familiar to pen, pencil and brush users. It was particularly popular with comic book and commercial artists. Additionally, it reproduced in print very effectively.
It's a lot easier to use filters in photoediting software, of course, though it's amusing to scan old tone sheets and then apply them in the computer.
I now rather like the way that filters can produce an unplanned effect....that dark vertical edge running up from the biscuit monolith on the left side of the picture wasn't the result of deliberate decision making. In fact, I'd probably not have planned it if I'd considered it, as it looks 'odd'. Then again, things often do in the real, undesigned natural world.
DIGIDOODLES - "AND THE AWARD GOES TO..."
Experimenting with bringing a bit of textural unification
to the background, rather like using the old transfer based rub-on or stick -on zip-a-tone, screentone or Letratone sheets.
I did enjoy the look of Letratone, back in the day, and I'm sure I still have some boxes of the stuff kicking around somewhere.
For the young-'uns, it was a basically a transparent film covered in tiny, regularly spaced patterns of dots. It was fiddly to use. as you had to cut it to shape on top of your drawing, but it allowed you to add 'instant' texture to pen and ink drawings to provide a quite cool looking shadowed effect. Think of it as a more mechanical way to produce stippling, which is a technique that will be familiar to pen, pencil and brush users. It was particularly popular with comic book and commercial artists. Additionally, it reproduced in print very effectively.
It's a lot easier to use filters in photoediting software, of course, though it's amusing to scan old tone sheets and then apply them in the computer.
I now rather like the way that filters can produce an unplanned effect....that dark vertical edge running up from the biscuit monolith on the left side of the picture wasn't the result of deliberate decision making. In fact, I'd probably not have planned it if I'd considered it, as it looks 'odd'. Then again, things often do in the real, undesigned natural world.