My photoshop version.
A scan of Brödel’s illustration from a book.
For those less familiar with Medical Illustration, Max Brödel was the founder of the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at Johns Hopkins. He is famous for his carbon dust illustrations. As an exercise for our Illustration Techniques class we were to duplicate a Brödel illustration done in carbon dust using Adobe Photoshop. For the most part I just used one soft brush. I started with 100% flow and opacity and blocked in the general shapes. Then I went back with the same brush with 20-40% flow and cleaned it up. I used layer masks to block out the main areas and keep my background clean. When I was happy with the tone I threw a grain filter on top to imitate the look of Brödel’s illustration. As you may be able to tell, there is more to the original illustration that I cut off. I’d love to finish it, but for now it is on to the rest of the ever growing to do list…
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Melissa
April 13, 2010 at 7:16 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Darth Vader!
kseverny
April 13, 2010 at 7:45 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
lol. i like the first comment.
it does have some resemblance.
i actually think its really cool
tomaszharacz
August 13, 2010 at 8:17 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Nice stuff, thanks for sharing.
泳鏡
October 16, 2010 at 10:05 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
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