Imitating Comics & Graphic Novels

[Nicole]

There are heaps of tutorials out there on things you can do with your photos to make them imitate other sorts of work... Here are 3 to make your photos look like comics or graphic novels that I like:

• Imitating A Scanner Darkly (See Wulf's A Bassist Darkly as well)
• The Frank Miller / Sin City Effect
• Comic Art Effect

Feel free to post up your own examples if you've tried any of these techniques. I think it's a kind of fun thing, and I've got to try to find a picture to use the Sin City Effect on cause that just looks neat

(I'll post these links in the Big List, but thought I'd start a new thread for anyone who wants to try these techniques)

[RandomConnections]

Here is a similar tutorial from graphic artist Melissa Clifton.

http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-comicbook.html

[Zoohouse]

Recently I achieved a "dirty" kind of comic book effect using GIMP.

Basically I did it using the threshold tool.

It's not as clean as the other tutorials but it's a easy method to create something without having to manually outline your photo.