PI Pop Art

[Grafixman]

This recent thread in the PSP forum http://talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=24672
led me to this link:
http://tutorialoutpost.com/count/4036
I had experimented with using PI's black and white conversion for producing halftone lines, but adding pop art colors was a new idea. I thought I'd take the Mean Machine for a pop art treatment. Lichtenstein would be turning in his grave...

[-=Drifter=-]

Wow! Is that ever cool! It would make a great T-shirt iron-on.

[Intbel]

A car with measles ... that is original >grin<

[sallybode]

Wow, Gman, great idea. Does it come with a vaccination?

[Grafixman]

MEASLES!
You people have no appreciation for art...

This thing's gonna be worth millions when I'm finally a member of the Dead Artists Society, you know.
Measles, really!

[Grafixman]

More halftone and screentone madness. No pop art colors this time. Uncolored line art as coloring book for the adventurous . All made entirely with PI.
One trick I found which works for this type of drawing is to draw the black silhouette with the path tool first, then draw the white shapes inside, then black again to refine the white, then white again to add detail to the black, etc. Combine the black and white shapes as single object if the object count goes up. You don't shape the vectors into the actual object, but rather use them as black and white brushes, much like the scratchboard process. It's pretty spontaneous, actually, once you get into it. One advantage with doing it on the computer is that you can duplicate your shapes, like I did with the leaves of the tree. Tones are made from texture fills (woodgrain, textile), converted to black and white, as well as some of those pixel screentones textures I posted some time ago.