Procreate is an amazing tool that we use here at Carousel’s to create most, if not all of our in-house designs. Other alternatives include GIMP and Inkscape, both are more akin to Photoshop, but if you are creating your own designs I can't recommend Procreate enough. If Photoshop and Illustrator are out of your budget, Affinity has many of the same features for only $50 each (no subscription) Designer and Photo work on desktop for windows and mac and they update them often. With a raster based image, seen in the image below, you can observe the difference in image quality. If an image is vectorized properly, you can scale the artwork up or down without losing image quality. I use Illustrator if I need to vectorize a low quality image or if I’m working with text and I want super clean lines.īut as for deciding with one is a better purchase or which one is more useful, the answer just depends on your design sensibilities. For many graphic elements like text, shape and line - the building blocks of any illustration - Illustrator or other vector based softwares like Affinity (Designer and Photo) allow you to create completely smooth, crisp line work and shape. Photoshop is a way to easily format, adjust, and manipulate images especially if they are photographic in nature or if you’re separating colors out of an existing graphic. I 100% recommend trying out this method, even just once, to see how great screen printing masters like Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol made their artwork.įor screen printing purposes I use Photoshop and Illustrator on an equal bases. Create multiple color layers with ease and get a clear idea of how this process truly works. Once you have a basic outline, you can add shading with cross hatching, stippling, or a mix of the two.ĭirect on film image making is a great DIY analog method to achieve immediate, lovely artwork that you can easily manipulate and add onto. Each have their own unique mark making capability so experiment and see which one best suits your style!Ī great technique to try is overlaying a sheet of acetate onto a photograph from a book or magazine and use your favorite mark making tool to trace over the image.
Other mark making tools like Fabercastle black ink pens, black paint markers, and china markers are great options to draw directly on film. Beware of using Sumi ink and most India inks because they are NOT opaque enough.
My favorite inks to use with brushes are Rapidograph waterproof black ink and Golden brand High Flow Acrylic because they’re fluid and don’t crack.
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