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Roy Liechtensteins "WHAAM" Anonymous
I want to make a nice poster to cover the window over my door. Since i study aerospace engineering, it should be related, and i've always liked Liechtensteins Comic Work.
This is the largest one i could find, now i'll give it a shot at vectorising it. I have some CAD experience, and fiddled a bit with the Path tool in Photoshop 6, but this is my first attempt to make a whole image.
The final result should cover an 84x30cm Window, the original painting is 421x172cm. That's not quite the same aspect ratio, so i'll either have to leave some space open at the sides, or i'll stretch it (add something in between, the original is split in two frames anyways, AFAIK).
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This is where I'm at right now. Now the original has pronounced dots in the half-tone area, like a rasterbated image. Since mine is going to be smaller, i want mine to be larger than scale, so they're still distinguishable.
My problem is, that i dont have any reference material regarding these dots, especially for the purplish area on the tailplane.
Anybody have a higher res of the picture, or maybe a close up of the dots? Many thanks are guaranteed!
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I remember having a copy of that image, just cropped and fiddled about so that it's just the WHAAM part. I'll try and dig it out if I can. It's HR.
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A little progress
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So far now. Still have no idea how to do the dots on the plane.
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shape layers on the elliptical setting with proper fill colors
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more detailed explaination pls
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if you do good vectors you should already know about using shape layers for variable width lines...

well there are options to make those layers a set type of shape..
one is square.. another elliptical.. another star shaped.. and there are ways to make custom shapes too.. select elliptical and use it to make circles.. if theyre outlined but not filled in in the comic.. just make a second smaller one with the background color
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>>114207

oops.. didnt read the OP all the way through.. i used to have a tutorial bookmarked.. but it seems i lost the bookmark =/..

you use filled shape layers instead of stroked paths to make variable width lines (its a setting on the pen tool).. each line takes 4 times as long but it looks a lot more polished.

it took me a couple days of spare time to get used to the settings.. but once i did it was very useful..

one of my vector jobs (the face dominating the right side)
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>>114208
forgot to add..
notice the round gems over the ears.. i used the method youre probably looking for to do the shading (in this case 4 nested ellipses)
>> Anonymous
OP here
>>114207
>>114208
Thanks a lot of for the info, and it seems like im not the only one interested,>>114206wasnt me ;)

It took me a moment to understand what you meant with "filled shape layers" (didnt know this before...). Biggest problem here, is that my PS in in German (like i am), and most explanations are in English, and/or for other versions of PS.
I am basically an autodidact with this, based on a single tutorial i read about "paths" (if that is the correct term).

I'll try to explain the method i've been using. There are probably more efficient ways.

Basically i create a path for each shape, or part of it. Then i have a layer for each color, and fill the path with that color, in that layer. Obviously, if i want to change it, i have to delete it, and then fill it in again.
Now, thanks to you, i found the shape layer option. This allows me to create a path, that is automatically filled, right? Then i have a layer for each path as well, and can make real time changes. I'll give this a try.

Couple of questions:
Can i make shape layers from the paths that i already have?
>> Anonymous
more Roy Liechtensteins plz!
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Posting some of my reference stash
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Now, while the dots in the single color areas are clearly visible in this image (blue), and the last (red), there are areas where there are 2 dot patterns of different color of each other (on the airplane here, and in th OP), but the resolution is too low, to see the individual dots. Still have to find better res of that
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Next airplane one
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Art
>> Anonymous
thank you mr. annonymous for culturising this board. bring more art to us!
>> Anonymous
love liechtenstien, if you vector anymore be sure to throw them up on /hr/ cause i'd love to see it.
>> Anonymous
You could always just buy the posters...

http://www.beyondthewall.com/xcart/product.php?productid=7226&cat=0&page=1
http://www.beyondthewall.com/xcart/product.php?productid=7033&cat=0&page=1
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>>114407
>>You could always just buy the posters...

THAT'S CRAZY TALK!

Anyways, i'll finish this up after exams are over, then i'll post it here. My mothers an art teacher, so she's got some books on Lichtenstein. Maybe i'll find what i need there.
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This one would look nice, too.
Here are some good links as well:

http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/
Lots of pictures, sorted by year.

http://davidbarsalou.homestead.com/LICHTENSTEINPROJECT.html
Lichtenstein vs original comics
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Ok, this one's definitely going to be next.
Instead of handtracing it, i just selected the black parts and made a path from the selection, then i'll finish it up by hand. This time i'm using a shape layer, too.
>> Anonymous
I like this thread. Bumpity.