I recently tried out a new company called Prints on Wood.
You “upload your favorite photos and/or artwork to create one-of-a-kind, show quality art pieces.”
Being a digital illustrator, I’ve always had a mental block participating in gallery shows or even putting up my own work since you have to get it printed and putting up a non screen printed poster of a digital work of art doesn’t feel that classy. Prints on Wood helps with that.
No frames to buy.
Classy sturdy wood canvas with keyholes for hanging.
Easy Peasy.
The website is pretty simple to use and they offer prints on various sizes. Smallest size is 4 x 6 for $20 plus shipping. Pretty cheap if you are just testing it out.
As far as the print, although it’s not as saturated and vibrant as a LCD monitor, it’s a great translation especially with the lighter colors showing through to the wood grain.
If you need some custom art to fill your space or as gifts, I would highly recommend Prints on Wood.
They update frequently on Facebook. Follow them! https://www.facebook.com/printsonwood
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How to Make Your Own Gameboy Portrait
I jacked the idea from Bamboota’s Facebook profile photo!
Here’s the simple, cheap way to do it.
1. Download THIS Photoshop 4 color index file.
2. Paste a photo of your face or whatever into it and hope that the contrast in your photo is good enough to get a decent result. (best if your image is 160 x 144 pixels like the original Gameboy resolution)
3. Download THIS Photoshop Gameboy file.
4. Paste your indexed photo into the layer called “PASTE UR MUG HERE”
VIOLA!
TIPS:
NOVICE: If your pasted image looks like crap, use levels, burn/dodge, etc to adjust a grayscale version of your image and try, try, try pasting again. It’s not an exact science since it’s difficult to predict how Photoshop is calculating the reduction/color matching.
DIFFICULT: If you want to manually reduce your image, you can download/use THIS SWATCH and play with the diffusion percentage to tinker with the resulting patterns. If you feel like learning, you can try to grind through my outdated but mostly applicable old Index Separation Tutorial.
BOOM!
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Recently, a Teefury artist wrote me a couple times expressing some concerns about some negative comments from the community. This was my reply:
Let me show you a message I got just the other day from a random person. See attached. Total stranger. Apparently upset about something in his life, probably has nothing to do with me.
It’s all part of being on the net man. Just know these people are just a little crazy. Ignore them. Also, refrain from reading comments if you are unable to handle it. I usually just don’t read too intently anymore. I try to take note of the positive comments so I can appreciate my fans and let them know I’m listening, but you have to be careful not to let the troll bring you down.
When there’s 100 comments of praise and 1 comment of hate, it’s hard not to let the crappy one stick out because it’s different, but remember to be rational and appreciate the 100 positive things.
Great work man. Keep on truckin.
Cheers
;j
*** Jesus gave 100 people in Hell a free get out of Hell and into Heaven card. 97 were elated. 3 complained of the brightness in Heaven. Internet is never happy.
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Well, it’s Sunday morning. Only the early church goers are up and scurrying around. I’m headed for Jackson, Mississippi, on to Shreveport, Louisiana.
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