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Anybody do their own graphic art and what do you use (software)?
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Posted on Mar 11 2013 05:49 PM
First I use this:
Then Photoshop and Illustrator, but always pencil, brush, pen and ink first. https://www.facebook.com/coffindagger |
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Posted on Mar 11 2013 06:04 PM
Charcoal, Pastel, occasional spraypaint, sometimes dirt, smudge it with an old sock, then take a picture and fix it up in GIMP — |
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Posted on Mar 11 2013 06:22 PM
I can't draw to save my life, but I can use software to achieve what I want. Photoshop is pretty much the image editing software of choice, but it can be very time consuming to get it to do what you want. For posters and stuff I use QuarkExpress and I recommend it if you can get it. It's useful for fanzines too. Very quick and easy to pick up, and I find graphics are much quicker and effective than Photoshop, which can get a bit of headache. Once you have got your head around using 'layers' to build up your image, you can do quite a lot quite quickly. Once upon a time you just played guitar in a band. Now I find you have to make websites, posters, CD artwork, sticker artwork, update YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, distribute emails and somehow find time to play guitar..... Ho hum. — |
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Posted on Mar 11 2013 06:33 PM
Samples and examples y'allz?!?! Lessee'um. — |
Joined: Aug 18, 2011 Posts: 158 The sun kissed beeches of Nottingham, UK.
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Posted on Mar 11 2013 06:50 PM
I've been using Photoshop for about a decade, getting into photography because I'm incapable of drawing anything other than breath and curtains. I've recently been trying to learn to use Illustrator to bring in more graphic work, but so far all I can make is unrecognisable wibbly shapes. |
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Joined: Sep 01, 2006 Posts: 2672 New Orleans, LA
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Posted on Mar 11 2013 07:05 PM
A few of mine [another record fair] Not exactly clean but that was never the idea —Storm Surge of Reverb: Surf & Instro Radio Last edited: Mar 11, 2013 19:10:32 |
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Posted on Mar 11 2013 07:14 PM
Nice Monstro. Very punk rock. — |
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Posted on Mar 11 2013 07:55 PM
As others have mentioned, you can't go wrong with GIMP and Inkscape. They are very much like Photoshop and Illustrator (I've used both)with the added benefit of being free. It takes a little time investment to learn but there are plenty of tutorials out there. We mostly use GIMP for our site and gig posters with some Inkscape for the things that GIMP is not designed to do. —The Boss Jaguars! |
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Posted on Mar 15 2013 10:32 AM
This is my first GIMP project. Artwork for demo e.p. of leftover tunes, but it was fun to put together a complete package and finally be able to learn this program. Culled from the macabre section of my foto library. Turned into some kind of Giallo/gothic romance paperback novel/horror comic cover. Not very surfy, but it's all no-budget with no overhead, so it will probably just end up as a Bandcamp free download. — |
Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19192 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Mar 15 2013 09:38 PM
Nice Joe! Look forward to the tunes. —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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Posted on Apr 06 2013 08:30 AM
Let me start with a self referee'd foul norcalhodad wrote:
Hella Yeah! I stumbled on this stuff after checking out that Aaron & the Burrs stuff, then crawling the Surf tag in bandcamp. Joe, you gotta do a better job of shameless self promotion! I can appreciate that you've moved on from that Close Outs sound, but man - that California Demo Sessions stuff is really good. Of course the Vader stuff is gnarly evil great in its own right. http://hellavader.bandcamp.com/ —Fady El Mirage @ ReverbNation Last edited: Apr 06, 2013 08:32:05 |
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Posted on Apr 06 2013 11:16 AM
Fady, you're too kind. Thank you, Sir. It's mostly old material, just sequentially repackaged for posterity and an excuse to have some GIMP fun. Or, just a Dad from Hell exploring the surf and fuzz paradox. — |
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Posted on Apr 21 2013 09:59 PM
I do my pencilling (usually) on paper and my inking in Manga studio. Some texturing in photoshop, which is also where I do most of my painting. Psycho surfabilly! |
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Posted on Apr 22 2013 07:03 AM
This is one of my more sucessful ones. It's my tribute to the great Wallace Wood.
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Posted on Apr 22 2013 08:08 AM
Great work! I guess, If you want to draw in PS, it's impossible to use mouse, you need a wacom stuff, or stg. psychonaut wrote: — original compositions (low-level demo stuff /out of tune, etc) myStuff not my best, but i don't like to be in a musician community without anything to show |
Joined: Dec 12, 2006 Posts: 2675 Ventura, CA
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Posted on Jun 07 2022 10:42 AM
Here's a sample some of you might recognize. I use Pigma Micron pens for drawing, they have waterproof archival ink and come in various weights. I quit dipping in India ink in the 80's but I did a lot of newspaper illustrations that way, now I can work much faster and without the danger of the pen snagging and spattering. Illustrator and Photoshop for color, type, clipping masks and retouching. |
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Posted on Jun 07 2022 10:31 PM
Lots of good advice already here. To kind of sum up things, background images are probably best produced by hand or photo and scanned in. To manipulate those, go with Photoshop (high end) or GIMP. I find GIMP a bit of a pain in terms of commands, etc., because I was used to Photoshop, so it may not be the most user friendly, but the price is right. Adding graphic elements like text and shapes can be done in those programs, but the vector-based programs like Illustrator and Inkscape give you better control over that - you just have to import your raster images as a layer. That being said, a quick and easy way to do things like posters is Powerpoint. It's optimized for projected presentations, but you can set up a single slide as a high resolution file for printing, and it is super easy to insert graphics and text. |
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