I scanned one of my favourite images in via the uni printer, and imported it to photoshop for a play around. After talking to Amy about resembling Nobrow's style in ways other than ink printing, she showed me a few tools that could aid in my processes.
By playing around with such tools as the curve, and the hues, I found that I could give my entire image including the background, a very cool tone of blue. As soon as I spotted this, I straight away thought about Nobrow, and an example of one if their books that particularly popped into mind, was one called "The New Ghost".
This is a book that predominantly uses a blue tone across a lot of the pages. Although it isn't the same shade, it is an example of colour themes in printing.
I printed a sample out of the photo above, and I came out ok, however in future I will use a much higher quality print setting. I will also print using a higher DPI.
I added a small amount of sample text, containing an excerpt from my developed narrative, however, when I went to print, there were technical issues, and for some reason the system wouldn't let me print. I will try again very soon, as I really would like to display an example of a sample page of text, alongside my illustrations, for myself to physically view the two together for the first time, as well as for the next group crit, which is soon.
I will update this blog soon.
Update:
The end results of playing around with photoshop colour settings.
Thomas.
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