Re: Engraved/Woodcut Effect On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:37:56 -0400, Wizard of Draws
Well truthfully, I'm not so sure about that.
I think the picture is actually a faked or trick photograph done for a
"whimsical look"...
"The artist drawing an exact duplicate of herself on a mirror".
It looks to me like she just posed for it, and someone monkeyed with
the mirror reflection after the fact. I think it would be damn near
impossible for the artist there to actually duplicate that frozen,
EXACT mirror image perpective of herself... mainly because she's
looking at it from an entirely different angle than what we (the
camera) is seeing. So HER perspective would look much different to US
if she were drawing what SHE saw.
(I hope dat makes sense...)
And they do that very same look for EVERY headshot of article authors
and key figures in the New York Times... EVERY single day.
I'm not exactly sure what the process USED to be called... woodcut,
engraved... or how the used to do it...but I figure it must take an
awful lot of time to do that by hand (drawing, engraving, or
woodcutting) and it's probably extremely costly to get someone to do
it by hand these days as well. And I don't think they actually do
things like "paste-up" & "airbrushing" etc. anymore thanks to
computers, desktop publishing and things like Photoshop etc.
So I kinda figured that in these modern, photoshopped, cost effective,
time conservative days... there must be a faster, cheaper process to
achieve that effect.
Only my thoughts and opinion.
But then again... wuddo I know... yanno...?
The Magician
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