Robin Williams 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. Contents......Page 5 Introduction......Page 8 Why this book?......Page 9 Materials......Page 12 1 Surfaces on which to Create......Page 13 2 Stuff to Put on your Surfaces......Page 17 3 Transfer an Image to a Surface......Page 21 4 Heat, Cut, Score, Perforate......Page 23 5 Adhesives—Glue it Down......Page 27 Texture your Surface......Page 32 6 Crackle the Surface......Page 35 7 Texturize with Modeling Paste......Page 39 8 Create a Patina......Page 43 9 Peel the Paint......Page 47 10 Rub and Rag the Paint......Page 51 11 Stamp Textures with Alcohol Inks......Page 57 12 Texturize with Absorbent Ground and Washi Paper......Page 61 13 Make Textures with Monoprints......Page 67 14 Make Textures with Bubbles......Page 71 Combine Techniques!......Page 73 Paint Textures......Page 74 15 Salt the Paint......Page 77 16 Blow the Paint......Page 79 17 Spray the Paint......Page 81 18 Pour the Paint......Page 83 19 Scratch the Paint......Page 87 20 Sponge the Paint......Page 91 21 Splatter the Paint......Page 95 22 Paint with Resist......Page 99 23 Stamp-Resist into the Paint......Page 103 24 Bleach the Paint......Page 107 25 Tape and Paint......Page 111 26 Plastic Wrap and Paint......Page 113 27 Paper Towels and Paint......Page 115 Combine Techniques!......Page 117 Paper & Metal Projects......Page 118 28 Marble the Paper......Page 121 29 Collage with Paper......Page 125 30 Collage with Metal......Page 135 31 Make your own Paper......Page 141 32 Cast Paper 3D Images......Page 151 33 Blind-Emboss the Paper......Page 157 34 Gold-Stamp the Paper......Page 161 35 Metal-Leaf an Image......Page 163 36 Emboss with Powders......Page 165 Combine Techniques!......Page 169 Illustrative Techniques......Page 170 37 Scratch into Scratchboard......Page 173 38 Illustrate with Found-Object Art......Page 179 39 Illustrate with Clay......Page 187 40 Illustrate with Collage......Page 197 41 How to Draw if you can’t Draw......Page 199 Printing & Transfers......Page 206 42 Roller Printing......Page 209 43 Stamp Printing......Page 211 44 Printmaking......Page 215 With Rubber Carving Blocks......Page 217 With Linoleum Blocks......Page 221 With Wood Blocks......Page 223 With Found Objects......Page 225 45 Transfer Images......Page 227 Transfer to Polymer Backing......Page 228 Transfer Directly to Substrate......Page 229 Transfer with Lazertran......Page 231 Transfer with Packing Tape......Page 232 Appendix: Resources......Page 233 C......Page 234 H......Page 235 M......Page 236 P......Page 237 T......Page 238 Z......Page 239