Recently on the Studio Artist User Forum there’s been a number of user art posts that showcase various blocky abstraction effects. This post details a different approach you can use to build this kind of effect style, as shown above. The idea is to build a stylized blocky abstraction of the source image that…
The following Watercolor Cartoon effect is reminiscent of a soft watercolor. It’s generated with a series of different image processing steps, and uses some tricks first discussed in a previous post on adding soft gradient fills to vectorizer output. Rather than using the vectorizer, we will be working with the Mass Abstractor image operation…
The following gallery above shows four different black and white sketch effects, designed to emulate different pencil or ball point pen sketching styles. They start out with a tight rendition of the source image and then get progressively looser. The sketch effects build up mass and edge rendition by utilizing the Sketch Mass and Sketch…
This post continues our discussion yesterday about working with Path menu commands to generate bezier paths for painting. In yesterday’s post we used a series of path menu commands in a PASeq to build a stylized woodcut block print paint effect. Today we will show how to take the stylized source image outline paths…
There are lots of different approaches you can take in Studio Artist to simulating different traditional woodblock print effects. The example shown above uses a series of path menu commands to build a stylized set of bezier paths that are then painted in with a paint synthesizer vector paint preset. This post will discuss…