Old stamp print

[cnic]

I would like to create something with this sort of look.... just not sure how to go about it... I want it to look like something printed from the 30's - 40's.

Any suggestions would be appreciated... this is the look I am going for, that old line by line type of stuff... (whatever its really called).

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[carter the artist]

crosshatching.

[Two-Toe Tom]

i think its just called hatching since the lines don't cross each other. i believe that style of illustration is usually done as a woodcut. i wouldn't know the best way to reproduce that on the computer tho. maybe you can look into doing an actual woodcut.

[cornfed]

Another way you could get the lines would be to take a ruler and a sharpie and draw lines on a piece of paper that absorbs the ink and makes it run just a little bit. Make your lines spaced out more than they are here. Photocopy the lines on your paper and scan them. Reduce down your scan so that the lines are closer once you start implementing it onto the stamp. That should give you the rougher lines and a more organic feel to them. The paper looks like it could easily be reproduced by making a duotone of a mint green and cream of parchment paper. The lines around the airplane could be done using a charcoal type pencil, creating the lines lightly and then scanning and reducing.

[PrintDriver]

It's called Engraving.

[DesignVHL]

PD is right...it was done as an engraving....to REALLY capture that look, do an engraving! I did something like that in college - incorporating an engraving into my graphic design class for a book cover. :) I was taking a printmaking class at the time so having that resource was so great! But yeah definitely an engraving...you can probably get a VERY SIMILAR look and feel by doing an ink drawing, and then adding some subtle ps filters over it. :)

[Deimodius]

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