(It's a little bit out of the style that I [think] will mostly keep in this account but I got the illustration in my head and I knew I wouldn't be able to do anything else until I got it out)
The idea was that this image would be a little more suggestive than it ended up being, but the truth is that I like the result. It helped me to minimize a little bit this crazy desire I have to make serigraphy 😢
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Either way, remember to take your vitamin C, put on your mask, get away from people and hug your pets. Stay healthy, chiquisbeibis <3
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About the process:
I am considerably more confident that I followed a more convoluted process than was necessary. That was the case:
I wanted to achieve an illustration that could be easily reproduced in flat screen printing inks, and since I wanted to use gradients these had to be dotted (or line) patterns, but I wanted dots. I also wanted a very clean illustration so I solved it this way: Base illustration in Illustrator and dotted frames (and assembly) in Photoshop. This is the base illustration in vectors:
What I did was to take the elements individually, in photoshop put them in "grayscale" mode and then pass them through the "semitone color" filter:
I selected the size of the dots I wanted and adjusted the illumination of the image to get the distribution of dots and detail I was interested in. I did not want all the elements of the illustration to have the same size of dots.
Then I removed the white parts (i.e. everything that was not dots) and moved the image to the assembly file. I colored with Hue/Saturation (Image>Settings>Hue/Saturation) and then it was a process of repeating, repeating and repeating with all the elements of the illustration.
Of course, if I wanted to print it in silkscreen I would have to do the division by colors, not elements, but as it is not going to be possible at the moment, I left it separated as I mounted it so that the process could be seen better:
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Extra: If anyone wonders why I simply didn't run the entire illustration through the color semitone, it's because I would have come out with this:
And it's not what I wanted.
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