angel
 

http://pekopeko.com/crap/angel2.jpg
i drew this at work and redrew it in the box. looks like a missed the topic of the week :)

Hail Citizen!

It is always good to see your high-caliber work, regardless of the timing.

It's a clean image that is accentuated nicely by the "weathered" effects.
I don't think it really matters when you post in the weekly threads. I like to think of them as open-ended assignments.

Some are more interesting than others.
-GH

uhhh nice! I like the effects: it looks as if it was drawn on a black board. How did you do this? :hmm:

really nice. It almost looks like a cutout in front of another background. It also kind of reminds me of some of the View Askew (think Kevin Smith) art.

I really like it. Good stuff!

Great picture! Please do share how you accomplished that effect. Looks really cool.

okay, the mysterious effect is none other than brushes in photoshop. this is how you make them, and apply them.

weathered brush:
what i do, is i find, take images, or scan things of something beat up, rust, asphalt, tape, torn or weathered materials, etc. you take this into photoshop and you cut out the area that you want to be a brush and paste it into a new document. then you desaturate the image to become black and white, play with the contrast so that some areas are completely black (basically photoshop will read the greyscale, black being full, white being nothing). after you are satisfied, and your rust, etc is the way you like, you go to define brush in one of the menus at the top, forget where exactly. this will now make a customized brush for you to play with.

now you have your brush, i usually have a couple of them that i use in combination with each other. for application i use the paintbrush tool (not the pencil) make sure you select your new brush and then make a layer and go play, which is what i did for the white layer behind the angel. i usually duplicate layers before i do something drastic, just in case it fucks it up. you then can take the eraser tool and select the same weathered brushes to take away from the image as well. i sometimes erase some of the paintbrush weathering if it is too much, you can also rotate weathering so that it looks the way you want it to.

that's basically all it is. i'm really into silkscreen and stencil aesthetics, so this works pretty decent. i've made some posters with this effect and people actually thought they were silkscreens standing right next to it.

here is another example of it.
http://www.pekopeko.com/portfolio04/images/var2.jpg

brushes are fun!
wasn't too long ago that i discovered their magic:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...hlight=brushes
i haven't played much with them tho since that thread, but i did figure out how to make my own. just haven't spent much time to make any really good ones yet.

i like the weathered/distressed look of your angel, analinguist. good work.

do you know dik bruna?
 

it's oddly reminiscient of dik bruna's angel,
without being derivative.

well done!

can't wait to try some of that brushes magic.

that's really good man ... also i think i fancy her