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my risoprints came out looking cool! yayyyyy

i was really curious to see how well the colors would overlay on each other. the browns and tans turned out really well, i think! heres how i split up the different color plates and my "digital proof":

more words below the cut. i think riso stuff is cool so ive been enjoying my class lol

at first i just did a color channel split on my whole drawing but further research showed that ppl usually keep lines/text on one layer to reduce how severe the layer misalignments will look. so i ended up splitting just my flats/rendering and then putting the lines exclusively on the blues. i think i went too heavy on the ink in some places (the pants and the anchor) so by the time i got to my blue layer, i think the papers ran out of capacity to absorb ink. hm! i did do some manual adjustments (tbh i used a custom profile that made everything way more greener than i wanted, so i had to change the levels for each of the plates anyway) but maybe i shouldve focused more on preventing 3 plates with 50% ink on the same spot.

i also forgot to clamp off the 0-10% black range in my last set of exports (i kept on making adjustments up until the last minute.... oops) so i got some undesirable noise patterns in some of the lightest areas.

i saw this in some example prints at the class/workshop space but i didnt know if it was a quirk of the program used or the machine itself. now i know: dont have 93% white! i'll have to add a levels adjustment layer to my layer stack to clamp it to pure white.

speaking of layer stack: to do my digital proof i set things up so my grayscale layers would be inside a folder set to multiply blending and with a "color layer effect" enabled. it was really handy because it sure beats just having to imagine the result in your head. and it was easy to turn off the color layer effect and export out the grayscale for the color plate. USEFUL

though i dunno about working directly in layers like this from the start... i already hate keeping lineart separated from color, let alone every single color channel. it was nice to keep things organized in the conversion process however.

anywayyyyyy heres pictures i took of the prints-in-progress

hes forming......

there's only room for one impossibly handsome asshole

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some younger/older taggarts & basils. my guys...............

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showed up 10 minutes late to the riso class im taking and was also critically unprepared to draw something traditional in under an hour <:) oops!!! anyway the tech is all very cool.

heres a comic i made to retroactively make up context

metthew (semi-nomadic courier) and sammy (medical surgeon with chronic pre-syncope) in the humble post-apocalypse (not pictured because i didnt draw it). heres an older drawing of them

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every so often i think "hey. arent screentones cool" and then spend several hours messing around with tone layers in csp

though i think the part of them i think "looks cool" is really just the part where you have to be very serious about your value grouping unless you want it to look muddy and bad. which is not specific to screentones

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managing a whole squad of miscreants is a lot of work. why deal with all that when you can instead have: a single high-performing lackey who is also your friend

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the king of all bandits (salamander salazar) and his singular henchman (bandit-bandit) cause nothing but TROUBLE in their local wrestling promotions

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found a work drawing while sifting through papers on my desk

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got a new sketchbook. filling it out with miscellanea as I re-learn how to use basic tools like "pencil" and "pens" in the physical realm

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some hangman page studies. i dont feel like im reeeeally understanding enough just copying the photos... gotta figure out some simpler shorthand for him instead

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wearing this on a shirt when I go to the all you can eat sushi place so the waiter understands the strength of my intent when I order 40 salmon nigiri off the bat

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smeemos cat

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made physical objects out of clay this week. look at my tiny children

doing this kind of stuff is way harder than I thought

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doodling shapes and objects and other topical matters

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some samsons.

ngl ive had trouble nailing down what his whole deal is but i think ive finally figured it out

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inspired by a tumblr post to make comics about graphics tees.

bonus followup:

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"so long gay bowser" - mario sixty four

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Gordon pillow?!

him! he's a very holdable shape and easy to rest your head on (which I do semi frequently). and also a real object I made that you can purchase from my friend's store here:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1056295505/16-plush-character-pillows-science-pals

hashtag advertising. (but for real every once in a while she shows me a nice review someone leaves about it which is sweet!)