Ninja March 17th, 2009
Flavor Paper produces unique vintage, contemporary, and custom handscreened wallpaper—they even have scratch-n-sniff wallpaper! Flavor Paper owner Jon Sherman shows us how he screenprints wallpaper by hand in their New Orleans studio.
Video presented by Cool Hunting
Produced Ami Kealoha and Tim Yu
Filmed and edited by Michael Tyburski
Music by Julio Monterrey
Ninja June 13th, 2008
Ah, I know it’s Friday, but I don’t dream that often. Instead of posting a dream this week, I thought I’d offer up this portrait that I just finished inking.
Meet Dan. He’s the owner of the barber shop that I frequent. He’s a very sweet guy, but he acts all tough. He’s also a huge NvP fan—he told me that he painted and decorated a whole room to match our First Kiss print (which is proudly displayed in said room). O.o Wow, thanks, Dan!
When I last visited his shop, he joked that I should paint him some time. Why not?
Here’s a bit of my inking process:
I finished most of the line work, but the wash on Dan’s shirt was uneven and boring. It could use some texture and pattern.
I photocopied the drawing and cut out the shirt portion to create a stencil.
I placed the stencil over the drawing and used nail polish bottles to weigh it down to avoid shifting. Then I dipped an old toothbrush in sumi ink and used my thumb to create small splatter marks. The harder I flicked, the larger the marks.
And here is the drawing after the stencil was removed.
Here’s a detail of the splatter pattern. I varied my flicking to create different sized spots.
Here’s one of the wallpaper patterns I made in Illustrator as a background for Dan’s portrait. For this pattern, I drew a pair of hair cutting scissors, rotated, and repeated them. I didn’t like the way it looked with Dan’s portrait, so I nixed it. I may tweak it later, and give it a go again.
Here’s the final. I evened out the wash of the shirt, then added more shading to Dan’s jaw and neck to give him definition.
Happy inking & happy Friday,
Ninja
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