{"id":532,"date":"2008-01-19T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=532"},"modified":"2008-01-19T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T14:50:00","slug":"and-the-cupboard-was-just-plain-bare-2008-01-19-hangers-for-illustration-friday-plain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/and-the-cupboard-was-just-plain-bare-2008-01-19-hangers-for-illustration-friday-plain\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;And the Cupboard Was Just Plain Bare&#8217; 2008-01-19 Hangers &#8212; For Illustration Friday, &#8216;Plain&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/2203768082\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2252\/2203768082_1ed13759b2.jpg?w=605\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/2203768082\/\">2008-01-19 Hangers &#8212; Rich Texture<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\tBeen working through an amazing book on Photoshop techniques, and kicking myself for never having given myself a chance on this incredible package.<\/p>\n<p>It is literally THE most powerful art creation tool in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ll stick to ArtRage for all the painterly stuff, I&#8217;ll be playing a lot more with the range of techniques Photoshop opens up for me.<\/p>\n<p>In this one, I took a reference pic of some coathangers on a rack in our bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>I then mashed the photo around, playing with things like contrast and hue and all sorts.<\/p>\n<p>Then I used my lassoo tool to loosely model shapes which I filled with colour.<\/p>\n<p>The original pic is no in this picture. It&#8217;s entirely hand drawn in shapes.<\/p>\n<p>I used loads of layers. A different layer for each coathanger, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I added some texturing to the flat colour I used.<\/p>\n<p>I made this pic as a response to <a href=\"http:\/\/illustrationfriday.com\">Illustration Friday<\/a>&#8216;s topic, &#8216;Straight&#8217;. At least, I THINK that&#8217;s what the topic is. Don&#8217;t recall. Will check later.<\/p>\n<p>[UPDATE:]<\/p>\n<p>Nope. The topic is &#8216;Plain&#8217;. So I think I&#8217;ll retitle this pic, &#8216;And the cupboard was just plain bare&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2008-01-19 Hangers &#8212; Rich Texture, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Been working through an amazing book on Photoshop techniques, and kicking myself for never having given myself a chance on this incredible package. It is literally THE most powerful art creation &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/and-the-cupboard-was-just-plain-bare-2008-01-19-hangers-for-illustration-friday-plain\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;And the Cupboard Was Just Plain Bare&#8217; 2008-01-19 Hangers &#8212; For Illustration Friday, &#8216;Plain&#8217;.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-8A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}