How Kitten Kelly came to the Animal Circus, page 1.
Added 2022-02-13 17:07:19 +0000 UTCFrom thirty-four years ago, kitten Kelly's "origin story". The grays are zip-a-tone, transparent sheets with little black dots printed on them. You stuck 'em on your art to simulate graytones when they were photocopied - or printed in strict black-and-white by the analog printing presses of the day. And yes, zip-a-tone grays were a lot of work to apply. Fortunately, it seems I had lots of time when I was 23.
But hey, no full nudity or sex, yet - I can leave this page public!
Comments
Now you can use a texture and just 'paint' it onto the space you want to tone. Beats scratching it out with a Hunt's #102 Crow Quill.
Perfesser Bear
2022-02-14 08:32:33 +0000 UTCLikewise. My first homemade characters sheets used letterset letters and technical pens. I still have the originals we copied repeatedly in the files. Blue layout pencil and sections of drafting velum carefully glued down. Yea it got rearranged. The current version is a print as needed thing. Now zip-a-tone does have a look that would be hard to duplicate in the computer unless you used fill and brushes. By hand your hand would fall off making all those dots.
Garry Stahl
2022-02-13 21:33:49 +0000 UTCPretty? Maybe; cute, certainly! I used Letraset dry transfer letters for sign making back in the 1970s and '80s. They also made a Zipatone work-alike. Hard to find, now! I've seen New-Old-Stock going on Etsy for >$20.00 a sheet.
Perfesser Bear
2022-02-13 19:43:19 +0000 UTC
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