I was fooling around with Paint Shop Pro the other day and chanced across the "Collage" filter. I found the results extremely pleasing to view. But it seems all the fun is in the hands of the software [grin] I'd really like to start working in this style but I can't recall any specific names of people, groups, time-periods, or styles in reference to it. Can anyone point me in the right direction (I would like to at some real-life examples made by humans, not algorithms). Some examples: http://www.sluggyandmaster.com/artwork/Temp/ColTest_01.jpghttp://www.sluggyandmaster.com/artwork/Temp/ColTest_07.jpghttp://www.sluggyandmaster.com/artwork/Temp/ColTest_13.jpghttp://www.sluggyandmaster.com/artwork/Temp/ColTest_14.jpg

That has a pointillist look, but I suspect that's only a cloth texture applied to an expressionist/impressionist drawing. It's possible that the black lines might also be a filter (find edges? ink?) and the original is a standard comic style drawing.

So, I guess it depends how you want to produce images like that. If you want to produce an image that looks like these without any computer processing, try researching Franz Marc, Monet, and Van Gogh. Or any book on the impressionist and expressionist movements which has lots of good pictures. And possibly Japanese brush painting for the black linework. Otherwise, you would want to take a comic-style source image and play around with it in Photoshop.

Ohoh, man! I need to be using that filter - exactly what I've been trying to make work today. What are the odds [grin].

That said, it is somewhat pointillist, but there's also a newer (1970-) and similar phenomenon. I'll try to dig up some of the artist names from my notes, but I make no promises (I also don't know how they get the effect).

Pop-Art. That particular comic style was mostly performed by Roy Lichtenstein.

If you're talking about the use of points of saturated color (q.v. Lichtenstein) this is known in the publishing biz as "screening".

Ah yes! Lichtenstein! Can you believe that I searched for two hours using "post-modern art" and "Silkscreening" as keywords with no results. I also find it interesting that someone else mentioned impressionists. Even though I knew is wasn't the right time period the only names I could recall were from the Ashcan school. Guess I should have paid more attention in my art history classes ;)

For comparison, here are three of the originals.
http://www.sluggyandmaster.com/artwork/Temp/Snake_1.jpg
http://www.sluggyandmaster.com/artwork/Temp/Sumdude_5.jpg
http://www.sluggyandmaster.com/artwork/Temp/Contrad_4-2.bmp


Yeah... I'm very jealous that a piece of software can seemingly add a more "human" touch to my art [grin]. As far as the color-texture goes, I guess it uses something akin to flood-fill with a texture of canvass. At first the ink lines seemed very complex, but I'm guessing it's just an edge-detection filter where the line is applied over a curved path and rendered thickest in the middle.

Any thoughts as to how to accomplish this in real life. I mean, ink lines and silk screening by themselves are one thing, but I'd be a bit scared to try inking over the print without some sort of guide. Then again, maybe that's where the "magic" happens, eh?

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Original post by lack o comments Ah yes! Lichtenstein! Can you believe that I searched for two hours using "post-modern art" and "Silkscreening" as keywords with no results.... Any thoughts as to how to accomplish this in real life. I mean, ink lines and silk screening by themselves are one thing, but I'd be a bit scared to try inking over the print without some sort of guide. Then again, maybe that's where the "magic" happens, eh?

Screening and silkscreening are two different things. More info

To get a cloth texture by hand, besides screening (is that the same as manga screentoning?), you could rub crayon or colored pencil over a textured plate. The inking, you could use either a fat calligraphy marker or a brush. You could sketch the lines on with a pencil and then marker/paint over them, I guess.