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: 
  1. To start I took the raw images in to Photoshop and upped the contrast and turned them to black and white images.
  2. 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.
  3.  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.
  4. I extracted the lines and moved them to a open source drawing software called Firealpaca.
  5. In Firealpaca I cleaned up the lines and finished the drawing to full body drawings without cropping.
  6. I took those drawings back into Photoshop to create the silhouettes. I used the magic wand tool to select the white space and then then reverse selection tool to have a clean selection around the fairy. Still selected I grew the selection slightly to leave room for a border. Still selected I used the draw line tool with the thickness being 5 pixels. 
  7. Keeping the canvas size exactly the same I move just the the silhouetted line into illustrator where I used the line trace tool again. At 5 pixels the line trace tool will have an inner and outer line to export once the lines are expanded. Its very important to deleted the line because this is the line that will cut all the way through once its moved to RD works.
  8.  After those are done use the pen tool to create a small closed in area near the middle are top of the design so that it can be used to string after it is cut. When it in RD works I made sure to create two layers one for the drawing which was on scan and the second for the silhouette which was on cut.
Materials: I used a birch so the lightness of the wood would contrast with the darkness of the burn. I hung them with a natural hemp twine to maintain the natural and rustic aesthetic.



















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