Artistic Inspiration from the sunday New York Times

[Synthetik]

The stylized graphics used in the sunday New York Times often serve as visual inspirations for me. I'll see a particular stylistic image used as the illustration for an article and wonder, now how could i create that particular stylistic effect in Studio Artist. Sometimes i figure it out, sometimes i decide i need to add an extra feature to create some aspect of the style. This sunday's NYT (6/24/07) is a good illustration of this. The illustration by Jeffry Smith below in 'the week in review' is great, i'd love to have a PASeq to create that particular style. I have some ideas but i think i might need to do a little coding as well since there is a lot going on in this particular illustration. Here's another one by Riccardo Vecchio from the editorial page by that i think is great. I think you could do a reasonable job of recreating this using the Vectorizer. The trick is that you have to apply the textures to the individual regions after the fact. One approach is to convert the vectorized canvas into the current region selection and then use regionization in the paint synth with region fill as brush pen mode and a path start option called 'Selection as Regions- all Levels'. You can use the paint synthesizer background texture to build the textures for the textured oriented gray regions you want in to the final canvas. This particular image also inspired me to create a new Region Effect for the Vectorizer to better emulate the particular style used in the illustration. Something to look forward to in the future. Feel free to share other illustration styles you find inspiring and would like to see emulated in Studio Artist, since i'm always looking for this kind of inspiration to direct our development efforts.