Comments | gorillatheory: its been a long time

gorillatheory

its been a long time

Jun 29, 2005 20:12

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plainmabel June 30 2005, 01:22:54 UTC

how do you working stiffs do it?

With disgust! Actually one thing that helps is being able to work from home either all or part of the time. Are you able to do that at all? It can make the day a little more flexible (plus you don't have commute time) so you can squeeze some creation-time in.

how do you do a chalk effect for highlights in photoshop.

Do you have an example of what you're looking to make? I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but you can do a kind of rough, dusty looking "chalk line" like this (I like this way better than filters):
1) On a new layer, draw your line with a fairly soft/feathery brush.
2) Duplicate the layer.
3) Set the Blending Mode on the copied layer to Dissolve.
4) Lower the opacity on that layer if needed.
5) Merge the two layers and make sure the resulting merged layer is Normal Blending Mode.
6) Scale the layer down slightly which will soften the "dust."
It ends up like this: http://img122.echo.cx/my.php?

gorillatheory June 30 2005, 01:36:59 UTC

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plainmabel June 30 2005, 01:47:59 UTC

Wow! Hero indeed! That is amazing. I bet he made a custom brush to do that. The closest approximation I can think of without a custom brush is maybe the Rough Pastels filter, faded out or blended a bit after it's applied?

imight June 30 2005, 01:23:02 UTC

What are you gonna do in your zine?

gorillatheory June 30 2005, 01:30:56 UTC

its going to be comics, poetry, and other bits of humanity. i'm pretty excited.

tedprior June 30 2005, 02:03:24 UTC

I work half days, so it works out fine for me. I finish a 1pm, I get home and have loads of time to wind down and draw.

gorillatheory June 30 2005, 23:27:22 UTC

i think that will be the plan once i graduate. How do you afford the bills and such though

tedprior June 30 2005, 23:48:43 UTC

Uhm, I dunno... My job pays ok ($18 an hour, Aus) and I don't drink, smoke, own a car etc... And it's not to expensive to live here in Western Australia.

college_girl_04 June 30 2005, 03:17:23 UTC

I like the pic. It reminds me of that cartoon that use to come on either Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers. It was about this girl who lived in a kitchen. The girl was drawn but the kitchen was real. She would move around and do things. Do you know what I'm talking about? Congrats on ur job. You inspire me to not be so lazy :)

gorillatheory June 30 2005, 23:27:45 UTC

lol. thanks.

tesseracting June 30 2005, 03:49:48 UTC

drawing on photographs is fun.

I'm thinking about painting on rocks right now, though. @_@
That's what being a working-stiff does to me.

But now I'm a working-semi-stiff (not going to dwell on that phrase much longer), as my new job is fewer hours. ^_^

I have combined my tv time and my drawing time... it's working out so far.

gorillatheory June 30 2005, 23:29:10 UTC

i think painting on rocks is pretty neat. i saw a sample at michael's today and it seems fun.