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Silver Dollar City Designs in SignCraft

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Mike Jackson
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Silver Dollar City Designs in SignCraft

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http://www.signcraft.com/libraries/arch ... d-Expo.pdf

I contacted SignCraft about putting the article online, which they did. AND, they added a lot of the other images that didn't get into the article because of space limitations.

Click the link above to see them.

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Re: Silver Dollar City Designs in SignCraft

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Oh. My. Goodness. Every single one of them is beautiful! What a great project!
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Re: Silver Dollar City Designs in SignCraft

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I don't subscribe to signcraft anymore so thanks for posting this Mike.

That is some very beautiful artwork.
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Jerry Berg wrote:I don't subscribe to signcraft anymore.
I was thinking this same thing lately, but after this issue I am happy I did continue my subscribtion!

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Re: Silver Dollar City Designs in SignCraft

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Congrats on the job, Mike, and the time spent on creating the collections is still paying off.

I get real tickled when I see the hand lettering digitized per project, not grabbing a font out of the shoe box,
and always envisioned this as the best use of digital prints in the sign biz.

Good article, short, with a lot of eye candy!

Aho!
and he took that golden hair and made a sweater for baby bear.
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Re: Silver Dollar City Designs in SignCraft

Post by Bill Masters »

Nice job Mike.
How did you do the blended shade on the ball toss sign.
maybe a step by step.
Thanks Bill.
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Re: Silver Dollar City Designs in SignCraft

Post by Mike Jackson »

Bill,
That was actually pretty easy as long as you make sure the shade is on a separate layer.

1. Turn on preserve transparency on the shade layer. That keeps the background from getting sprayed
2. Fill the shade with red.
3. Since the shade was created at 45 degrees, I could make airbrush strokes at 45 degrees by holding down the shift key while making the pass. Some got darker tones and some strokes were lighter highlights.

Well, that's the basics. I could also have rotated the entire canvas 45 degrees and painted only horizontal strokes, then rotated back 45 degrees later. I might have make a layer mask on a few of the details at some of the more crispy serifs.


A more advanced user might put highlights on one layer and shadows on another but I don't think I needed to do that on this project.
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Re: Silver Dollar City Designs in SignCraft

Post by DAVE SMITH »

Excellent work and interesting read Mike. My Signcraft arrived today, was reading it earlier while eating my lunch.

good job mate!

Dave
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