I’m working with a local business owner to bring some of her ideas to life. She gave me an original pen-and-ink to see what I could do with it via laser. She also loves the engraving I’ve done on chipboard (0.02") and has bought all the samples I’ve brought her.
I did a high-quality scan of the art and took it into Photoshop for cleaning up. I tweaked until the screen looked like the clarity of the original art. Then I changed the pixel density to something the GF could handle and sent the file to print.
It took about an hour. I took a few photos as it developed, and the artist was thrilled at what I emailed to her. Here’s the finished piece (not in its entirety, for copyright reasons):
In the original art, the eyes are solid black; it’s interesting how the chipboard/laser combination created striations. In person, the engrave is an impressive representation of the artist’s work.
Pen & ink drawings engrave really well on canvas art boards. Nice sepia-ink looking aged result. You can pick them up cheaply from art & hobby stores. Do your settings testing on small samples of the artwork and you can probably get by with one for testing and then move on to the real piece.
I’ll suggest that to her. Right now she owns a paper arts store, so is looking for ways to increase people’s interest in paper. I don’t think she carries canvas or paints. (But I think I am interested in doing what you suggested for my own art.)
I haven’t done any treatment to the chipboard; I’m going to leave that up to the artist. It would be a good experiment if I do anything like this for myself.
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this is not as bad as the alligators
Somehow a tentacle creeping up on you through the grass seems creeper than an alligator.