'DIVORCING' YOUR PARENTS
Editorial illustration for HUMO Magazine
TASK: The article tells the 3 stories of an adult child leaving his/her parents to never see them again.
CONCEPT: To fit the different stories I chose a universal and straight forward solution.
- PROCES -
From sketch to finished work
1. Tidy pencil drawing - 2. Scan and increase the contrast - 3. Flat coloring - 4. Details, textures
- inspiration for the coloring -
CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY
Chromolithography is an early method for making multi-colour prints.
Used for Holy Cars, school plates, rum and cigars labels,...
I like the rich details of the randomly placed dots. A time-consuming hand-drawn process.
I like the rich details of the randomly placed dots. A time-consuming hand-drawn process.
Quite different from the photo-mechanical 4 color printing proces with a regular grid.
link to some color printing history: https://legionofandy.com/2015/10/16/ben-day-dots-part-5/
- DETAILS -
I was looking how to recreate this random dot texture. And here I learned the trick.
Short tutorial by Matt Borchert (15 min).
- THANKS FOR WATCHING! -
