Using Bill's methods I made almost 100 illustrations in a year of travel once I finished the course. This one was about the floods in southern Europe destroying the salad crops, and shops were left with empty shelves. Salad was flown in from America, so I see this as an editorial illustration. I probably should have made the birds bald eagles but I liked the idea of the storks better as they bring more than eagles. All the colours are made from monoprints or drawing inks and all the lines are pencil, scanned in on my A4 Lide. I recently found how to change scanning mode to 600 dpi so that I can enlarge everything in Photoshop without it pixellating. I mostly scan at 450 now for making picture books.
Nice topic, nice image and thanks for the helpful hints about scanning resolution.
For everyone:
It never hurts to scan at a higher resolution than 300dpi - if you have the memory in you rdevice for larger files. You can always make something from a scan smaller or lower resolution without affecting quality, but the opposite, making something larger or higher resolution, will cause pixelization.
I like that little slice of celery, Linda.
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For everyone:
It never hurts to scan at a higher resolution than 300dpi - if you have the memory in you rdevice for larger files. You can always make something from a scan smaller or lower resolution without affecting quality, but the opposite, making something larger or higher resolution, will cause pixelization.
I like that little slice of celery, Linda.