Photo Filters on Drawings

19/11/2015

About two years ago, I was curious to see what filters people were using with their photos on Instagram etc would look like applied to drawings. I made my own custom filters in Photoshop and experimented with a set of ‘Superhero’ cartoons I was making at the time.
Above is a compilation of recent drawings the way I post them on Instagram, playing around with those filters.

Pictured above is a 'Superhero' drawing from two years ago, as posted on Instagram at the time.
My current drawings all appear in the Drawing a Day blog in their ‘standard’ (unaltered) format. I am fascinated by inverted images - the 'X-ray' look. I love what happens to ink spot spatters, they look like light spots or bubbles.
I like to imagine them as stills from a scratchy old film; but it’s my ambition to make them into a suite of photogravure etchings. One day!

This is today's Drawing a Day, No. 53 as posted on Instagram.

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