Devan Doe: Fairy Ornaments
Concept: These are original drawings that I made from a a series called "Fairy Tales" The images were pictures taken of ink on natural recycled paper. The idea I had was to laser engrave them on to wood and then cut their silhouettes out. Once complete they could be stung and hung on a tree. Techniques: To start I took the raw images in to Photoshop and upped the contrast and turned them to black and white images. I found a good neutral spot in the image and adjusted the white balance which further preserved the line detail and contrast. Having done these drawing on a very textured paper presented interesting problems that could have been completely avoided on regular drawing or inking paper. That said Its still worked out great. After the images were adjusted I took them in to Illustrator and used the line trace tool which after much adjustments in Photoshop came out great with very clean lines details. I extracted the lines and moved them ...