Few recent cars

[lemorris]

Some for shirts, some for not

[3Deep]

Dude the Ford truck art is awesome!!!! I would love to print that on some shirts

[Sbrem]

Love the fastback and the split window. I had a '65 Karmann Ghia... like the others too of course. You do like the bugs...

[JBLUE]

Badass as usual. Nice to see your stuff again. Keep it comoing.

[lemorris]

thanks guys

I have some interesting stuff comin up.  I will remember to share here.

Good seein you guys.

[Command-Z]

That split window is about the most amazing thing ever. You really made it look like a colored pencil drawing. I've been studying it everywhere it gets posted. It's absolutely mouth-watering.

[lemorris]

while I got you here, here's a question.

I picked up a book on painting in ps and that noise bit to get that look was something the author suggested.  It is pretty cool IMO.

The question is, even if I were to say only apply it to the car area and not everywhere do you think the effect would translate to a shirt well?

My thought is that the black that makes up parts of the noise bit would come through so strong it would overpower the whole design....kinda like how a black Chuckle being smack dab in the middle ruins the whole damn candy.

[JBLUE]

I think you would really have to pull back the percentage of black and maybe even use a transparent black over the paint. A trans black will still let color through and give it that effect. You would end up with two black screens but it would be kick ass. That would even be cool indexed.

[Command-Z]

while I got you here, here's a question.

I picked up a book on painting in ps and that noise bit to get that look was something the author suggested.  It is pretty cool IMO.

The question is, even if I were to say only apply it to the car area and not everywhere do you think the effect would translate to a shirt well?

My thought is that the black that makes up parts of the noise bit would come through so strong it would overpower the whole design....kinda like how a black Chuckle being smack dab in the middle ruins the whole damn candy.

That's a valid concern... black likes to get heavy. Maybe only apply the noise to the other color channels. If you do use it in the black, maybe pull the curves wheeey back so it's subtle.

Here's another thing... Tedder does this a lot... if you can afford an extra color, print a second black screen. One for tones, one for lines and solids. Or just a not-black color for the noise, like a dark purple.

But yes, it can translate to the shirt.

[supergabe]

sweet
when i grow up i wanna be like you

[Chadwick]

Nice work Lemm.

The noise would need to be straight pixel data, wouldn't it?
As in, not a tone at whatever linescreen. Those noise pixels are usually rather small and subtle.
Although, I've seen scary things appear in tones from bad jpeg data, so..?
Someone clue me in here.

[Colin]

Lemo,

Scott has it right.  The BEST way is to do one screen for your solid blacks, then a second for your black percentages and use a reduced opacity black for that second screen so it becomes Very smooth in transition.  Otherwise use a reduced opacity black as your black.  If you are worried about the black looking black enough on the shirt there are easy ways to fix that.

Now that I think of it, there are several different ways you can actually print the black without adjusting how you create your art.

Oh, and this batch of designs I think are the best I've seen from you!

Amazing work as always.

[tpitman]

The thing that stands out for me is your treatment of the glass that allows the background and some interior detail to show. A lot of car guys treat glass like it's opaque. I really like the "painterly" background behind the truck. It creates a whole environment for the truck to exist in without being so fussy as to draw attention away. A very unique treatment, and well done.

[Dottonedan]

All that they said, times 2. 

Very good. Maybe your best yet.  The first thing I noticed and aprecuated moat was the noise effect to make it different than most. It actually looks sort of like Tedders marker art. You can see the illustration board fibers and that's what that noise represents to me. Good stuff.

As far as getting thr noise to print, I've done that many times in traditional painted art. The thing is, you don't want to use black on it at all if you ca avoid it. Most times you can't fit another black in...and having that in black even on a halftone screen can still be overpowering even if you Set it at 10% abd you would want that to be a percent of Guangdong black if you did go the 2nd black route.  Keepbg it a solid couple pixels would be way too harsh.

The best option is to make that texture come out of the (colors) and not black. You can take a mid level color (or two) and still keep that in halftone form. You want to exaggerate the size of that noise in some cases. Lighter noise colors work easier.

[lemorris]

right on guys

thanks for the input.

I'll probably just chicken out and not do it.    (jk)

When one goes to press, I'll share.

Thanks for lookin.

-lemorris