Madelén Foss is an Illustrator from Norway, specialising in wobbly cat drawings and fantasy portraits.
A nice papercut look
Taking the vectors into Photoshop allows for some colour tuning, overlays and pixel-pushing to create anaglyph effects and recreate a screen-printed feel.
Photoshop bands gradients sometimes, and idk how to fix that. However, to recreate the effect in illustrator would require a lot of extra patience and probably more RAM. I need 64Gb, but that requires a new mainboard...
Photoshop bands gradients sometimes, and idk how to fix that. However, to recreate the effect in illustrator would require a lot of extra patience and probably more RAM. I need 64Gb, but that requires a new mainboard...
Moving the drawings from scanned .jpg's to .ai and .eps can prove challenging when they are more detailed, where simple gradients and grain cannot be applied to the same effect while also retaining Madelén's drawing style.
The tall girl, above on the left, carries about 380,000 anchor points from over-zealous use of the bristle brush tool (most of which you can't see when the file is exported, I just noticed), and weighs in at around 37mb which makes refusing to rasterize it punishable by Adobe Illustrator crashing due to lack of memory.
The pen drawing on the right contains about 380,000 points of Posca pen love and weighs only a few grams, but carries a higher risk of papercuts.
The tall girl, above on the left, carries about 380,000 anchor points from over-zealous use of the bristle brush tool (most of which you can't see when the file is exported, I just noticed), and weighs in at around 37mb which makes refusing to rasterize it punishable by Adobe Illustrator crashing due to lack of memory.
The pen drawing on the right contains about 380,000 points of Posca pen love and weighs only a few grams, but carries a higher risk of papercuts.
Thanks for looking and don't forget to check out the rest of Madelén's work!
