{"id":475,"date":"2022-08-05T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cecilomar.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2022-11-02T15:53:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T19:53:18","slug":"relief-frida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cecilomar.com\/blog\/relief-frida\/","title":{"rendered":"Frida Relief Illustration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I made this relief-style illustration a while back and used my dog as an example. I used Adobe Illustrator for this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember discovering linoleum in college; I saw it as a hobby. For some reason, linoleum blocks were surprisingly cheap at the book\/supplies store on campus. I only made a few designs and never saw any potential to it other than entertainment. I never actually printed anything using this technique. I only attached the linoleum to a piece of wood and used it as a stamp a few times. It was a neat way to burn time while waiting between classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been some years since my college days, and now I can&#8217;t even find linoleum where I live. I want to play again with relief printing at some point in my life. Maybe when I move out of Key West, I could find a place with a nice relief press. For now, Illustrator is the way to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Process<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty straightforward, and it takes some time and decision-making. I took this picture of my dog, Frida, some time ago. I placed the image in an Adobe Illustrator document, lowered the opacity to 60%, and created a new layer for the vectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started with the most noticeable characteristic of her face being that she&#8217;s a Boston Terrier. I then went for the details instead of the head, ears, and such. I followed her fur pattern to add some volume to the art piece. You want to start with the details and then go for the larger sections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made this relief-style illustration a while back and used my dog as an example. I used Adobe Illustrator for this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember discovering linoleum in college; I saw it as a hobby. For some reason, linoleum blocks were surprisingly cheap at the book\/supplies store on campus. I only made a few designs and never saw any potential to it other than entertainment. I never actually printed anything using this technique. I only attached the linoleum to a piece of wood and used it as a stamp a few times. It was a neat way to burn time while waiting between classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been some years since my college days, and now I can&#8217;t even find linoleum where I live. I want to play again with relief printing at some point in my life. Maybe when I move out of Key West, I could find a place with a nice relief press. For now, Illustrator is the way to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was kind of a show and tell. In the future, I might post an actual tutorial. I&#8217;m just very proud of this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"708\" height=\"777\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cecilomar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Frida-Relief-01.jpg?resize=708%2C777&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Relief style illustration of a Boston Terrier\" class=\"wp-image-702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cecilomar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Frida-Relief-01.jpg?w=708&amp;ssl=1 708w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cecilomar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Frida-Relief-01.jpg?resize=273%2C300&amp;ssl=1 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made this relief-style illustration a while back and used my dog as an example. 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I only made a few designs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[31,29,32,34,35,30,33],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","tag-adobe","tag-illustrator","tag-ilustration","tag-linocut","tag-linoleum","tag-relief","tag-woodblock"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cecilomar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Frida-Relief-01.jpg?fit=708%2C777&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecilomar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecilomar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecilomar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecilomar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecilomar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cecilomar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/cecilomar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecilomar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecilomar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecilomar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecilomar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}