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Woodcut challenge: Creating a woodcut-style drawing

Woodcut challenge: Creating a woodcut-style drawing

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Woodcut challenge: Creating a woodcut-style drawing

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- There are any number of times over the years when I've wanted to use a woodcut technique on a logo because I thought it might add the right level of character. Actually, making a woodcut is not terribly hard, but it requires time, tools and a lot of practice. I found this picture online that shows you what the actual block looks like as you're carving into it. Kind of like whittling away everything that isn't in the picture, and keeping everything else. Bryan Peterson, a fellow designer from Dallas, let me in on a secret he'd been using to get the carved look in moments, and now I'm going to share it with you. For this challenge, you'll need some tracing paper and a sharpie, or a felt-tip marker. And also a piece of art that you'd like to make look like a block print. I'm using a logo we developed for a tailor. It has about the right amount of detail to be effective for this technique. Lastly, you'll want to scan the logo and probably take it into Photoshop, but for the purpose of…

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