Dennis Kuhn wrote:
> Dan Serra <danser@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>My son who is in high school has been enamored with creating cartoons
>>for the past year. He prefers ink and paint and the traditional look of
>>political cartoons. There is a type of shading that he has been trying
>>to achieve that involves the use of diagonal lines or cross hatching
>>with the regular hand inked lines. It is very tedious to do this by
>>hand.
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> At the risk of offending, I'd just like to cast a vote for the
> "tedious" method.
>
> Cross-hatching, when done correctly, is not a uniform series of
> diagonal lines. The artist alters the distance between the lines and
> the thickness of the lines to show the varying shades of "gray".
>
> Even if you did something like create a custom cross-hatch layer
> underneath the original art, and used a tool to make selected areas
> more or less visible, it wouldn't look right, because the nature of
> cross-hatching is all about the subtlety of the penstrokes.
>
> Dennis
While I agree with you Dennis that the artist's hand gives character and
life to a drawing, that doesn't mean that learning a faster or technique
isn't worthwhile. When deadlines loom, you do what you have to to get
the job done.
I don't normally use crosshatching on my cartoons, but I know of a
method using Photoshop. Briefly:
If you look at the comic strip 'Rose is Rose', you'll see Pat Brady uses
a single hatch at 45 degrees. There are a couple of ways to accomplish
the effect, but I think he uses a combination of grays converted to
bitmap mode. In the conversion dialog box, you are prompted to choose
lines or dots. The density of the lines is determined by the value of
gray you convert. You can either clone the areas you need to shade from
a separate job window filled with the hatch value you need, or convert
the entire grayscale artwork to bitmap as a last step.
--
Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino
"Cartoons with a Touch of Magic"
http://www.wizardofdraws.com
http://www.cartoonclipart.com
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