[HN Gopher] Old Book Illustrations
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Old Book Illustrations
Author : Tomte
Score : 197 points
Date : 2021-04-10 09:10 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.oldbookillustrations.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.oldbookillustrations.com)
| lordleft wrote:
| Amazing resource!
|
| Assuming it's legal to do so, what's the best way to get some of
| these printed, for wall art or whatnot? Is this something a Fedex
| Kinkos would specialize in?
| ghaff wrote:
| I'd just search around for printing posters. FedEx seems to
| (https://www.fedex.com/en-us/printing/posters/prints.html) but
| I imagine most printing places would. I'm sure there are plenty
| of on-line sources as well.
| quaffapint wrote:
| My daughter did exactly this with some old prints she found
| online. It was really cheap and the prints actually turned
| out quite well.
| andybak wrote:
| Can we get these into StyleGan please?
|
| (nice to get so much Gustave Dore in one place:
| https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/artists/dore-gustave/ )
| exabrial wrote:
| Ah, we finally figured out what website O'Reilly uses
| rye-neat wrote:
| This is great. I've always enjoyed the illustrations in the
| opening credits of What We Do In The Shadows and wanted to get
| some of those prints.
| okl wrote:
| See also, https://www.fromoldbooks.org/
| enricozb wrote:
| Tangentially related: fiziko [0], a MetaPost library that can
| draw old-style physics illustrations. This is not my software.
|
| [0]: https://github.com/jemmybutton/fiziko
| gtramont wrote:
| This is amazing! Thanks for the link.
| app4soft wrote:
| You may follow Sergey Slyusarev (dev of _' fiziko_) on
| Twitter to see some WIP works.[0]
|
| Also, take a look on Kristof Dedene's procedural hatching and
| manga shaders in Blender.[1]
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| [0] https://twitter.com/cphlmy/status/1153433765072576520
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| [1] https://twitter.com/KDedeneArt/status/1332063491218399232
| marcodiego wrote:
| It would be nice if someone vectorized it and put on
| https://openclipart.org
| svcrunch wrote:
| Thank you for sharing.
|
| A while back, I fell in love with James Mahoney's illustrations
| of many Dickens' classics. That's when I realized there were no
| high quality digital copies of this Victorian master's ink
| drawings.
|
| You can find the version of Oliver Twist I created here:
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| http://ahmadsoft.org/typesetting.html
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| You can compare the quality of the artwork with the nearest
| alternative, available here:
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| https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/mahoney/ot.html
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| I've also been working on typesetting Little Dorrit.
| Unfortunately, the text of both books have a lot of typographical
| errors that I'd like to correct at some point. Perhaps some
| future advance in machine learning will help me automate the
| process because I don't have the patience to do it all manually.
| skytreader wrote:
| Cool! I've been listening a lot to the Draftsmen podcast lately
| and one thing that they keep mentioning is "studying the (old)
| Masters". I'm not sure if these qualify as "Masterworks" per
| their definition but it's from the same era, i.e., when
| drawings/engravings/art had to be planned and executed carefully
| because a mistake is not as cheap as a CTRL + Z.
|
| Another thing Draftsmen made me realize is the actual art (or at
| least _craftsmanship_ ) of comics. They may be mass entertainment
| (i.e., we're talking mainstream here, not your charming indie
| series) but even in their early incarnations comic art was still
| grounded in solid art principles. A lot of the works here exhibit
| that thesis:
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| - Prints like
| https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/dreams-lu...
| remind me of Marc Hempel's work on _The Kindly Ones_ arc of
| Gaiman 's _Sandman_.
|
| - Kind of a cheap shot to mention Charles Vess but look at prints
| like https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/many-
| beat... and you really see the movements that influenced him.
|
| - The range of
| https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/woman-par...
| might as well be 80s-90s pop art, if not for the finer details in
| the shadows.
|
| - Like Vess, Frazetta might be too easy an example but I fancy he
| took his technique of theatrical lighting and exaggerated dynamic
| ranges from old black and white engravings.
| senux wrote:
| > Another thing Draftsmen made me > realize is the actual art
| (or at least > craftsmanship) of comics
|
| Reminded me of Strip Panel Naked. Great video breakdowns of
| comic book story telling theory.
| samstave wrote:
| Link to a preferred ep of draftsman? I'd like to check that
| podcast out
| akudha wrote:
| not your parent commenter, but maybe this is what they are
| referring to?
| https://open.spotify.com/show/46YccBlYhfOKq4zD4NHoxn
| skytreader wrote:
| So I think the one thing that will resonate with the HN crowd
| is the fact that Stan Prokopenko, one of the hosts, is also
| some sort of small-time tech entrepreneur. This comes up
| throughout the episodes but two that really focus on his
| efforts are:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtApUuFLeGA&list=PLVeITADsnv.
| ..
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtpRGxe5_H8&list=PLVeITADsnv.
| ..
|
| If you take programming/hacking as an art and hold fierce
| ideals over it, some of their other episodes might also
| benefit you, either personally or professionally:
|
| Reinventing yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2gp5_F
| 7-9U&list=PLVeITADsnv...
|
| On the Gaming Industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBkbF
| Bl05-s&list=PLVeITADsnv...
|
| Becoming more creative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9e5W
| AOoQ8&list=PLVeITADsnv...
|
| I just want to say, whatever your feelings about programming
| as an art there are still definitely differences between the
| two industries. I might just be biased because if I didn't
| love my paycheck too much, I'd probably be making indie
| comics.
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