More Vintage

This is more "vintage" line of images I've been working on lately. I set this one up to look like one of the old pulp style comics from the 50's; kind of in the vein of the 50's movie serials about aliens and monsters.
This one is true CMYK color half tone (converted back to RGB to be posted online). I used the black line art as a key layer. After selecting the colors in photoshop I copied and pasted them to a new file, converted it to CMYK and applied the color half-tone to it. Then I copied the key layer (the black line art) and pasted that in over the colors, lining them up as I did so. Then I modified my selection of the key layer by a 1 pixel expansion and filled it with black again (to beef up the line art darks). I went on to photoshop in the "aged" wrinkles and dings in the cover and the result is what we see here.
I REALLY like this look. I think it has a lot of potential in a more fine arts oriented area. I know this is hardly an original thought *COUGHRoyLichtensteinCOUGH* but I feel the artificial aging of modern images holds a great deal of potential.

Whats New is Old Again

So this is my first real attempt at simulating a vintage look. I've used photoshop to add a halftone screen to my image of the super kill guy Brock Samson. Admittedly I cheated a little. I'm not to swish with the process yet and every time I tried to apply a color halftone it came out looking horrible so basically I duplicated the image, gray scaled it, and applied the halftone to the that. Then I pushed the curves to make the image strictly black and white. Once there I copied and pasted the dot pattern into the original image and set the layer to "overlay".
It's rudimentary and isn't representative of what a real color halftone image can look like (which is pretty bad ass if you ask me), but this way doesn't look bad. It's not a bad way to do it while I'm still learning how to do it right.

The Expendables W.I.P.

This is a flick Stallone is making (think The Wild Geese). It features a bunch of 80's action icons as well as some more modern ones. A friend of mine told me about it and said I should take a look at the movie poster for it. He said he 'd love to see my take on it so here I am - in the midst of it...

I still have to draw the tattoo for the muscle-dudes back and of course there's the color....