Mine has looong been doing paper illustration art. I love the stuff--a perfect combination of illustration, challenge, and art with a dual nature of being about the picture and about what it's made of.
I haven't been able to scratch the itch, though. Good papers for paper art are expensive. Construction paper? Pfah! It's about as suitable for good work as grade-school manilla is for a drawing involving ink and Copics. Therefore, a great love for a medium, and no practical way to include an opportunity for it in a materials budget.
Even scrapbooking paper's on the spendy side, and it's damn hard to find single sheets in solid colors without having to buy a metric fuckton of paper you don't want.
Until I realized, thanks to the magic of cruising deviantART that I was no longer limited to affordable and beautiful paper. Some hard searching for textures, the discovery of ones that really looked like paper, some PShop engineering, and a pointer from![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
graphicnovelist to a fantastic resource by an illustrator named "Vonster," and I got what I have been lusting for.
Vonster is an picture-maker after my own heart. We agree that entropy is beautiful. He made a book out of it! (Which I have added to my Amazon Wish List!)
Anyway, what you see is a work-in-progress. There's been many hours in so far, learning. It's not anywhere near anything like finished, but I love the way it looks so far. I'm amused, too, by how making something look like paper which looks like a face, which was made digitally, is a concept that practically eats its own tail.
Yes, I know she has no hair! Go elsewhere for your japery and goofin'!
Illustrator CS, PShop CS, paper textures cobbled from stock.xchng,
background texture from Vonster's Illustration Class (freebie textures HERE! scroll down to "Collecting and Using Textures in Your Artwork".)
I haven't been able to scratch the itch, though. Good papers for paper art are expensive. Construction paper? Pfah! It's about as suitable for good work as grade-school manilla is for a drawing involving ink and Copics. Therefore, a great love for a medium, and no practical way to include an opportunity for it in a materials budget.
Even scrapbooking paper's on the spendy side, and it's damn hard to find single sheets in solid colors without having to buy a metric fuckton of paper you don't want.
Until I realized, thanks to the magic of cruising deviantART that I was no longer limited to affordable and beautiful paper. Some hard searching for textures, the discovery of ones that really looked like paper, some PShop engineering, and a pointer from
graphicnovelist to a fantastic resource by an illustrator named "Vonster," and I got what I have been lusting for.Vonster is an picture-maker after my own heart. We agree that entropy is beautiful. He made a book out of it! (Which I have added to my Amazon Wish List!)
Anyway, what you see is a work-in-progress. There's been many hours in so far, learning. It's not anywhere near anything like finished, but I love the way it looks so far. I'm amused, too, by how making something look like paper which looks like a face, which was made digitally, is a concept that practically eats its own tail.
Yes, I know she has no hair! Go elsewhere for your japery and goofin'!
Illustrator CS, PShop CS, paper textures cobbled from stock.xchng,
background texture from Vonster's Illustration Class (freebie textures HERE! scroll down to "Collecting and Using Textures in Your Artwork".)
