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[egypturnash]

The texture of dithered spurts of ink-jet, barely visible, plus the texture of common printer paper, make for a very interesting contrast to my crisp AI work. It nuked the flat-vs-texture contrast of the hair on that recent painting of Peganthyrus, but it's beautiful on that chaotic AI piece of Sosael.

Getting around to making really nice prints of my stuff will be interesting. Experimenting to find the right crudity of repro for some of my ultra-crisp work...

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[tugrik.livejournal.com]

Of the stuff you should get in your mail tomorrow, some are smoothgloss, some are textured gloss, and others are matte. All are very 'crisp' and follow your color tones quite close. Curious how they compare to the inkjet stuff you already got. Poke me online tonight if you want tracking #'s for USPS.

The texture-gloss (the 'luster' paper) doesn't really muddy up the image much. However -- I do have the ability to work on watercolor style media and canvas. I simply haven't gone out and gotten any, for lack of really having a use yet. It's roll-mounted stuff, and kind of fun to work with. Now you've got me curious...

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what I printed was a little jaggy here and there.

I bet there's all kinds of interesting things one could do by printing on deliberately not-white paper, or even stuff that bleeds randomly... I wonder if it's really possible to print on handmade art paper, with varegated textures!

hmmm. This is something I could easily see being expensive experiments. Give me a way to fuck my drawings up and I will, it seems. Despite the basic execution being super-crisp.

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

I use an HP paper with HP premium glossy paper for my work, even illustrator. It works great :)

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Mmm... dithered spurts.