Handmade Design Workshop: Create Handmade Elements for Digital Design

Description

Over the course of the last several years, the DIY market has exploded spawning magazines, books, movies and fueling the growth of the online, handmade marketplace. In Robin Williams Handmade Design Workshop: Create Handmade Elements for Digital Designs, best-selling author Robin Williams and Carmen Sheldon take designers away from their computers and show them, step-by-step, how to use traditional artist's tools to create handmade elements for their digital artwork. The authors provide a wealth of new ideas to jump-start creativity and get graphic designers thinking in new ways. Each how-to is illustrated with tons of photos to show how to use paints, inks, textures, modeling pastes, and more to create handmade materials that can then be scanned in and used to create one-of-a-kind print projects or web sites. Examples of finished projects and Web sites are featured throughout the book to provide both instruction and inspiration for designers to use in their own projects. Cover Contents Introduction Why this book? Materials 1 Surfaces on which to Create 2 Stuff to Put on your Surfaces 3 Transfer an Image to a Surface 4 Heat, Cut, Score, Perforate 5 Adhesives—Glue it Down Texture your Surface 6 Crackle the Surface 7 Texturize with Modeling Paste 8 Create a Patina 9 Peel the Paint 10 Rub and Rag the Paint 11 Stamp Textures with Alcohol Inks 12 Texturize with Absorbent Ground and Washi Paper 13 Make Textures with Monoprints 14 Make Textures with Bubbles Combine Techniques! Paint Textures 15 Salt the Paint 16 Blow the Paint 17 Spray the Paint 18 Pour the Paint 19 Scratch the Paint 20 Sponge the Paint 21 Splatter the Paint 22 Paint with Resist 23 Stamp-Resist into the Paint 24 Bleach the Paint 25 Tape and Paint 26 Plastic Wrap and Paint 27 Paper Towels and Paint Combine Techniques! Paper & Metal Projects 28 Marble the Paper 29 Collage with Paper 30 Collage with Metal 31 Make your own Paper 32 Cast Paper 3D Images 33 Blind-Emboss the Paper 34 Gold-Stamp the Paper 35 Metal-Leaf an Image 36 Emboss with Powders Combine Techniques! Illustrative Techniques 37 Scratch into Scratchboard 38 Illustrate with Found-Object Art 39 Illustrate with Clay 40 Illustrate with Collage 41 How to Draw if you can’t Draw Printing & Transfers 42 Roller Printing 43 Stamp Printing 44 Printmaking With Rubber Carving Blocks With Linoleum Blocks With Wood Blocks With Found Objects 45 Transfer Images Transfer to Polymer Backing Transfer Directly to Substrate Transfer with Lazertran Transfer with Packing Tape Appendix: Resources Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z