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To create a silkscreen effect using
a created texture for the illustration Postmodern War Fear, Warren Heise used Illustrator to add color to an original hand-inked
drawing, drew buildings and
symbols, and used Pathfinder
commands to subtract shapes.
For the mushroom cloud
symbol, he used the Crystallize
tool (located under the Warp
tool) to create spikes. Heise
exported the document as a
Photoshop file (File > Export),
selecting Write Layers in the
Photoshop Export Options
dialog box to export all the
shape layers.
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Heise scanned
a texture of an artillery
case into Photoshop,
converted it to
Grayscale, then chose
Image > Adjustments >
Brightness/Contrast and
set both Brightness and
Contrast to their highest
settings. The texture
was not large enough,
so Heise used the Clone
Stamp tool to add new
areas. “I wanted it to be
crisp when applied to the
images,” he explains.
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Heise dragged the texture image
into the exported Photoshop
document. On the texture layer, he
used the Magic Wand tool with a
tolerance of 32 to select the white
areas. He chose a shape layer and
pressed Command/Ctrl-J to jump
the selection and shape to a new
layer. Before jumping both the
Green Brain and Symbols layers
with the texture layer, he chose Edit
> Free Transform on the texture
layer, and rotated the texture so
that it looked more spontaneous.
He repeated this process for additional
shape layers.
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Heise created a top layer
that combined all the textured
shape layers (but the head)
with the main texture and set
the layer’s blending mode to
Multiply to add vibrant color.
The final illustration is shown at right (click to enlarge). “The final effect looks as if
the illustration was stenciled
on concrete or created using
silkscreen,” Heise says.
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Illustrator and designer Warren Heise is based in Edmonton, Alberta, and can be reached at warrenheise.com.
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