HEADACHE
Editorial illustrations for HUMO Magazine



- Proces -
INSPIRATION
I'm fond of the beauty of old cheaply-printed package designs and comic books.
The coloring bound by the technical limitations makes the designs so powerful.
Some vintage firecrackers packages by anonymous masters
bottom right: comic panel by Jack Kirby
A lot of comic blow-ups and inspiring content on the 4 color proces: http://4cp.posthaven.com

SKETCHING

INKING

FLAT DIGITAL COLORING
in basic CMYK colors

RASTER/DOTS
And here a little technical info for photoshop adepts.
This is the way I do it. Found by trial and error.
1. Make the layers with the line drawing invisible. I don't want the linework to be rasterized.
Flatten the rest.
2. Ad texture: I like it if the dots are a bit rough. To achieve this I ad texture before rastering.
I have some scanned textures on my computer.
Here I added a grainy-ink-wash layer. Chose overlay (bedekken) layer.

2. Duplicate the image 4 times. 1 for Cyaan - Magenta - Yellow - blacK
3. Channels: Open the channels window in one of the duplicated images.
Delete all the channels except one. You have a grey image.
Image > Modus > turn to greyscale
Image > Modus > turn to bitmap > chose raster > the frequency is a bit trial and error

4. monotone: Now you have a rasered black and white image.
First go back to greyscale: Image > Modus > turn back to greyscale
Now you can choose a color: Image > Modus > go to duotone
> pop-up window: choose monotone and pick your color

5. repeat step 3 and 4 in the other duplicated images with he other channel colors.
6. Last step: bring the 4 images together in one CMYK-image, with the line drawing on top.
Make sure to choose duplicate layer to make the layers transparent.


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