VectorWhiz Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Experimenting with creating vector woodcut portraits, which is a bit of a nuisance. Many things to consider when constructing such drawings. Still a tad confusing at this point. After four trials and errors I arrived at this level of design complexity. I used my vector portrait of Abe Lincoln as the image for this test. I believe the trick is to find the right way to set up the masking strokes after which basically any image can be used to build a woodcut portrait. Working method: Create a sine line Duplicate it until entire page is covered Select all lines and ‘Expand Stroke’ Combine all expanded strokes – after which they will show as a single ‘Curve’ in the Layers panel Duplicate a number times of your choice Rotate each of them to different angles, making sure they cover entire page – you have to enlarge them until they do Import an image Duplicate it to the same number of combined strokes / Curves that you duplicated in step 5 Apply a different ‘Treshold’ level to the original image and duplicates Rasterize all images Drag each image inside a curve so that the Curve serves as a mask Make sure none of the Curves has a fill or stroke width assigned Remarks: The combined strokes shown as Curves will show up over the images. Hit the Magnifier Zoom tool to see the result without the Curves overlaying them Each Curve containing the rasterized image can be manipulated in several ways – opacity, type of filter I attached the Affinity Designer file to study for those interested. Woodcut test AL portrait 3a.afdesign Patrick Connor 1 Quote Home: https://vectorwhiz.com : : : : Portfolio blog: https://communicats.blogspot.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorWhiz Posted May 10, 2018 Author Share Posted May 10, 2018 A more detailed explanation is given in my portfolio blog: https://communicats.blogspot.nl/2018/05/how-to-create-vector-woodcut-portrait.html Quote Home: https://vectorwhiz.com : : : : Portfolio blog: https://communicats.blogspot.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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