PeterRex Posted March 16, 2021 Author Share Posted March 16, 2021 4 hours ago, Ren De said: Dannyg9, you are so right! I could not agree more! Creativity finds its way no matter what materials or tools are at hand. When artists first began using digital images the aesthetic was different with the clunky, chunky pixellated images and some people I knew were disparaging the work as non-art. I pointed out that we do not criticize a masterful woodcut for not being an etching... PeterRex, i like your work - especially the b/w stuff. Brings to mind solarization...and pen and ink. Very cool. Thank you @Ren De, to tell you a secret, I am also a print maker, using lino cut and mostly in black. Colours tend to confuse me. So that's why I like plain black and white work. 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren De Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 As Dannyg9 says, “Craftspeople of a feather... 🤓 PeterRex and dannyg9 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 17, 2021 Author Share Posted March 17, 2021 I am not good at it, but anyway … A selfie, or to put it more serious : selfportrait (noblesse oblige!). 😏 dannyg9 and Mensch Mesch 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smee Again Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Like the coffee image . . . been to the Cafe du Monde back home in New Orleans -- but the last time was before 1980. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 17, 2021 Author Share Posted March 17, 2021 Thank you @Smee Again, I've never been to la Nouvelle Orleans, which is a shame for a jazz fan! 🙄 And the mushroom again, I'm getting closer … Ren De 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 I still do prefer working in pur black 'n white. StuartRc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 That was a quick 'n dirty one, half an hour tops, but I do like the resulting image! Alfred, Ren De and StuartRc 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren De Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Nice! PeterRex 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 Now I'm getting lazy! One stroke only! Well not really, there have been three curves, the main drawing stroke, the lightbeam and a circle but after a bit of Break Curve, Delete and Join Curves there is now only one curve. The rest is done by modyfying the pressure curve in the stroke settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 19, 2021 Author Share Posted March 19, 2021 I really do like mushrooms, I have hundreds of photos take of them. dannyg9 and sacboi 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 20, 2021 Author Share Posted March 20, 2021 I spent a good part of my evening with this, still have to work on the text (Text-warp!). It's for a poster for a vape store. While almost finished with the bottle I checked the outline button and liked the result. So I duplicated everything, ungrouped everything, unchecked every fill, blurr, pressure modification, opacity, set every outline to black and stroke width to one and set the layer opacity to 70% et voilà! And without the strokes: dannyg9 and Ren De 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 20, 2021 Author Share Posted March 20, 2021 And, for the time being, the final version. There will be some text, but the owner hasn't decided on what he wants to add. Speaking of text, does anybody know of a tool to wrap text? Preferably free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 22, 2021 Author Share Posted March 22, 2021 Another try for realism … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 24, 2021 Author Share Posted March 24, 2021 Lacking the time to really create something, by the end of the month I have to leave my appart and haven't found a new one. So a little bit of stress! Here is a a little logo for a transporter I'm working on: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 24, 2021 Author Share Posted March 24, 2021 And when in stress, I need chocolate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 25, 2021 Author Share Posted March 25, 2021 And another lazy one, almost good enough to enter @VectorVonDoom's list of un-artistic art. 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorVonDoom Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 On 3/16/2021 at 1:27 PM, dannyg9 said: Don't follow the crowd, find your own path. I think some of the really detailed pieces here are originating with some sort of high end tracing software that takes the subject from photo to vector. At least that's what I gleaned from one conversation. If that's not the case, then I'm all the more impressed that these pieces are done by painstakingly drawing that wealth of vector information bit-by-bit. Reminds me of the technical air brush artists from back-in-the-day (Philip Castle, Jim Hatch, and the absolute master, Don Eddy). Any creative endeavor is worthy of praise, no matter the tool(s) used. Not mine they're not! It's usually pretty simple to see if they are from the outlines (sometimes just from the output) and obvious if you get to see the source file. Quote Marc ArtByMarc.me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorVonDoom Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 2 hours ago, PeterRex said: And another lazy one, almost good enough to enter @VectorVonDoom's list of un-artistic art. 😄 Yep lol PeterRex 1 Quote Marc ArtByMarc.me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 25, 2021 Author Share Posted March 25, 2021 23 minutes ago, VectorVonDoom said: Not mine they're not! It's usually pretty simple to see if they are from the outlines (sometimes just from the output) and obvious if you get to see the source file. I've tried the Inkscape vectorizer and some online tools, can't say that I do like the outcome. Maybe worth a try to vectorize a sketch, but as far as photos or paintings are concerned, the time you spend cleaning up the mess, you can trace it by your own. Or maybe I haven't found the right tool. But anyway, I'd rather do it by hand if I have to trace something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorVonDoom Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 It depends what you are trying to convert. If it's something simple and especially monotone then it can do a pretty good job. But as you say unless the input is really nice quality then the amount of cleaning up often makes it a bit pointless. I've yet to see a converter do anything other than flat colours and never use blurs whereas anything photorealistic is normally going to have both gradients and blurs. But there are some things on here that aren't what they seem. Quote Marc ArtByMarc.me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 25, 2021 Author Share Posted March 25, 2021 And some minimalism again. I love vector drawing for this, a couple of strokes, modifying the weight via the pressure curve, adding some text and Bob's your uncle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 27, 2021 Author Share Posted March 27, 2021 Turning tango quotes into action: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 28, 2021 Author Share Posted March 28, 2021 I nam not sure about this one : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterRex Posted March 30, 2021 Author Share Posted March 30, 2021 And a logo design for an … erotic shop. (coughs) tom d 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacboi Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 @PeterRex Really diggin the fungi pieces, overall a fairly vibrant color palette you've got there - nice. 👍 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On 3/17/2021 at 12:27 AM, dannyg9 said: I think some of the really detailed pieces here are originating with some sort of high end tracing software that takes the subject from photo to vector. At least that's what I gleaned from one conversation. If that's not the case, then I'm all the more impressed that these pieces are done by painstakingly drawing that wealth of vector information bit-by-bit. Reminds me of the technical air brush artists from back-in-the-day (Philip Castle, Jim Hatch, and the absolute master, Don Eddy). Any creative endeavor is worthy of praise, no matter the tool(s) used. Adobe Illustrator has a trace pre-set, I think for vectorizing raster images and yes indeed the process of manually editing a given work with some complexity using vectors can be a laborious task, well at least for me as a novice. Also interesting point about artists implementing airbrushing in their work because as a self proclaimed scifi nut had grown up admiring Masters of the craft especially someone like Chris Foss, who'd first experimented with the technique back in the 1960s. dannyg9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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