Hello people! In view of the global circumstances and inspired by so many artists and people sharing and caring for everyone who has to remain at home, I decided to finish this post that I initially started back in August last year. Due to the amount of workload, I had to pause but now felt the most appropriate time to publish something that could potentially inspire others. This post is based on my painting of a pain d’épices (French for “spices bread”) in which I illustrated the actual cake, its metal tin and a wooden spoon. I had the idea to go more in-depth into my own painting process. I realized that a crucial part of creating a realistic piece was getting the different textures right. Particularly in culinary subjects, texture is key in my opinion. While I am no expert (yet 😜), I feel that the best way to continue learning is by sharing and aiming to explain what you already know and even forcing yourself to investigate more to be able to provide as much value as you can. So, what that mindset, I will go over the three different textures I mentioned before and I will try to give you some tips and process so that you can try them too!
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Hello people! It has been a while since I wrote a post on the printing aspects of illustration so I took the opportunity with the launch of my NEW square postcards added to my shop to explain a little bit more about how I create the files that I would normally send to the printer. As a graphic designer, this is a process that I repeated many times but that it is utterly important in order to ensure a good quality result. Thus, on this post I wanted to cover a very important part of the printing process which is creating a pdf file that will preserve the quality and colour range of your illustrations as close to the original piece as possible. I will be covering a few aspects and tricks that will help you create foolproof pdfs to send confidently to any printer. This is a crucial method that I have used over and over again professionally while overseeing the printing results of magazines, books and even comic books! Therefore, I would like to share here my process using InDesign and again some tips I have used along the way. I will be using the file of my square postcards as an example. Although advantageous, there is no need for you to have a previous command of InDesign to follow this post since I will walk you through the process every step of the way. I hope you find it useful!
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