Whenever I want to produce a half-tone effect in Photoshop, I invariably have to look up how to do it. It should be more straight-forward than it is, but we don’t use half-tones in images as much as we did in the pre-digital days.
Below is a good tutorial for the halftone effect that’s been online for a number of years now. (HT Dylan M. for finding this.)
https://www.thegraphicmac.com/create-comic-book-halftone-dot-effect-your-photoshop-images/
I made these over the weekend working from old comic books. It was good to have the dip pen and watercolor brushes going again.
A two-year project, drawing on the collections of the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, has made 800 manuscripts from the period 700 – 1200 available online for the first time.
https://www.bl.uk/news/2018/november-2018/800-medieval-manuscripts-now-available-online#
Getting warmed up for Inktober…
I finally made some new ink drawings. I haven’t done this since last December. It felt good to have ink and brush in hand again. I’m pretty rusty, though.
Made some more pictures this weekend.
You never know where you will end up in your explorations of the World Wide Web. This morning I happened upon this Google Doodle about Jackie Ormes.
I don’t usually see the Google Doodles since the Chrome browser itself acts as an interface to Google, but this morning I happened to catch a glimpse of this doodle and it caught my attention because of its comics theme. After scrolling through the illustrations, I clicked through to read more since I didn’t recognize the artist who was featured, Jackie Ormes.
After reading Google’s write-up, I decided to do some quick exploration on the web to see some more of Ormes’ work. It wasn’t long before I found The Ohio State University’s blog about cartooning. This Jackie Ormes was truly a groundbreaker.
But as it turns out, so is Liz Montague who drew the Google Doodle that captured my interest. She’s a young cartoonist from Philly who also happens to be the first African-American woman to have a cartoon published in The New Yorker. That’s really cool!
What I enjoyed most about watching Ms. Montague’s bio video above is how she uses various forms of digital media to do her creative work and how she was able to become a groundbreaker herself through persistence and practice.
