Producing my own Pop-Art
By andy on Monday, January 1, 2007 - 6:16 pm
Every since my buddy Yerg purchased a pop-art styled painting of Jeff Buckley from a local artist for $500 I’ve been on a mission to figure out how the artist creates his work. The pop-art is more of a shadowed, posterized effect. So, I started playing with Photoshop until I figured out an easy way to create the same effect.
I loved Yerg’s paintings, but couldn’t see myself paying a guy $500 for something I could do myself… or almost myself. I got pretty close. I played around a few times with Photoshop’s image adjuster, then I read a few online tutorials. Today, I think I figured it out.
It still takes a bit of work in Photoshop. And, I imagine that the painter still has to do some sort of photo transfer or tracing from an overhead projector to get this on canvas. But, I’m pretty excited at getting this far.
I think I have my new family project. The photo above is of my parents. My goal is to add each one of my brothers. This should make for some incredible wall art.
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Comment from Will
Posted on Tuesday, 2 January 2007 at 9:27 pm
AD is a madman with a mouse and a keyboard!! Good job….maybe I will have you do a pic for me!! I agree on the $500 for a pic of Jeff Buckley!! Way to go man!!
Comment from Melissa
Posted on Tuesday, 13 February 2007 at 9:45 pm
I thought the same upon seeing his paintings. The end product looks great, but the process does not really require much talent (no offense on any other fellow artists of course). Now, can you re-create the burning city painting on that computer of yours, hmmm?
