July 11, 2007
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July 19, 2005
August 17, 2004
September 12, 2000
Figure Mania: Card Board Figures
General information:
Quality:
The figures are laser printed on 300 gram card board with 600 dpi. Cutting is done with a plotter.
Their height is approximately between 2.7 and 2.9 inches.
They are printed only on one side. The backside is white.
The plastic standees for the figures are included in the delivery.
Shipping costs for registered mail:
worldwide: 14.00 USD
Payment: via Paypal
Production and Shipping time:
Production time may take 5-10 days
How to order:
- Please send me the set codes via facebook messenger, what sets you would like to order.
- Next I will send you an information about the total price including shipping costs.
- If you agree you may send me your e-mail and shipping address. To finalize everything I will send an payment inquiry via paypal.
- After the payment I will send off the figures within 2-3 working days. You will receive the tracking numberof the package.
July 8, 2000
Info about plastic standees
The plastic standees, that will hold your card board figures, don't have always the same exact width.
Thus I add some card board stripes to the shipping.
If the figure is too lose in the standee, please add a little strip in the back of the bottom of the figure.
Please cut these stripes to the appropriate wideness of the figure base and put both (figure and stripe) carefully into the plastic standee. (The additional small stripe should be on the back of the figure to not cover any printed part.)
I also add some miscut figures to your shipping, so that you can first experiment with it. Actually it is not that hard or complicated.
Thus I add some card board stripes to the shipping.
If the figure is too lose in the standee, please add a little strip in the back of the bottom of the figure.
Please cut these stripes to the appropriate wideness of the figure base and put both (figure and stripe) carefully into the plastic standee. (The additional small stripe should be on the back of the figure to not cover any printed part.)
I also add some miscut figures to your shipping, so that you can first experiment with it. Actually it is not that hard or complicated.
Cutting stripes to smaller pieces | stripes put together with figures into bases |
July 6, 2000
July 7, 1990
Creating Templates
There are definitely various ways to create templates. This is just my way to do it.
This is just an example and a description how I make mine with the help of other artwork.
1. Scanning
I scan the original artwork, I'd like to create an template from.
In this example it's Element Lad by Ron Frenz.
2. Change of Colours
First the scanned picture is turned into a grey-scaled picture.
Then back into a RGB- or CMYK-mode.
The grey colours are turned into blue and the brightness is encreased.
Finally this version is printed out.
3. Drawing
On the print-out I draw directly the outline of the template with black.
4. Second Scanning
The print-out with the black outline is scanned and the blue shaded pixels are erased.
The different dark grey/black pixels are all coloured to one 100% black.
August 8, 1989
Creating the Characters by using Templates
1. Print Out
I'm printing out the templates in a light blue.
Several images can be put next to each other.
On the printed templates I am drawing the details of each figure.
First with a pencil, then with a black or red pen.
3. Scanning & Colour Erasing
The drawing is scanned and the white parts are
marked by a colour mask and are erased.
I use different layers:
Layer 1 with the original template,
layer 2 for the scan with hand-drawn details
I can adjust layer 2 according to the blue
outline onto the template of layer 1.
Now the blue parts on layer 2 can be erased.
pixels are all coloured to 100% black.
4. Colouring
The fillings are done on a third layer.
5. Shading
Same about shading:
new layer with a certain translucency.
I usually use different layers
for shading on black and other
colours.
(e.g. dark blue shade on black /
black lucent shade on purple /
light blue shade on white)
6. Scaling Down
Before uploading the picture to this
blog I resize it to approx. 10%
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