Hello everyone!

This is JAHANA.

This time, we will use a hexagonal ruler to make a "Bendy dot"!

It's surprisingly easy, so please take a look!

The video narration is in Japanese, but this time I made English subtitles and set it to be displayed!

I definitely want people in the English-speaking world to see it!

What is Bendaydot?

I'm sure some people haven't heard the word "Bendy dot," but maybe you've seen it.

Yes, in the art of Roy Lichtenstein.

The characteristic halftone dots used in art published by Roy Lichtenstein in the 1960s are called "Bendy dots."

 

"Bendy dot" is a color printing technology that was originally invented in 1879, and is called "Bendy dot" after its inventor, Benjamin Henry Day Jr.

This "Bendy dot" has been used for color expression in American comics since the 1930s.

Then, in the early 1960s, Lichtenstein drew a piece of American comics and "Bendy Dot" and made them into art.

"Bendy dot" has a unique impression because the arrangement and density of circles are different from screen tones and halftones.

Wouldn't it be possible for our work to become richer if we could successfully use this "Bendy dot"?

Preparation for work

Now let's actually make the Bendaydot.

 

To make it easier for you to reproduce, we will start with the paper settings for the new file.

Press the New button, set the paper size to [A4], set the resolution to [350 dpi], and set the basic expression color to [Color].

Once the canvas is prepared, there are places where detailed work is required, so set the display magnification to 100%.

 

Next, let's display the grid.

Select [Grid] from the [View] menu.

In the displayed initial state, the grid has fine eyes, so adjust the size of the grid.

Select [Grid Ruler Settings] from the [View] menu again and set the number of divisions in the grid settings to 1. You can leave the interval at 100px.

Make a hexagon ruler

After setting the grid, make a hexagonal ruler.

Press [Figure] on the sub tool, go to [Create Ruler], and select [Figure Ruler].

From the tool properties, set the shape of the figure to [Polygon] and set [Number of vertices of polygon] to [6].

In the initial state, there is a check in the [Adjust angle after confirmation] box, so remove this check.

After setting the ruler, make a hexagonal ruler according to the corners of the grid.

However, the [Create Ruler] tool does not snap to the grid even if the [Snap to Grid] button is pressed.

Therefore, manually make a ruler that exactly matches the corner of the grid.

If you are working with a liquid crystal tablet, the grid will be hidden by your own hands, so I think it would be easier to use the mouse from here.

When you can move the cursor to the corner of the grid as neatly as possible, hold down the Shift key and make a regular hexagonal ruler.

From the corner where the ruler was made, three squares to the right, there are the top and bottom vertices of the hexagon, and the cross representing the center exactly where the corner of the grid fits, so create the ruler there.

Draw a circle at the top and center of the hexagon

Next, switch from the sub tool palette to the felt-tip pen, and draw a circle at each vertex of the hexagon and the center.

 

Select [Marker]-[Fingerprint Pen] in the sub tool.

Set the brush size to [15] and set [Antialiasing] to [None].

Just like when creating a ruler, move the cursor to the center of the hexagon.

Draw a circle by left-clicking the mouse as if you were pressing a stamp.

 

Similarly, draw circles at each vertex of the hexagon using the grid crosses and rulers as a guide.

Register basic pattern as material

Now that we have a basic pattern for bendy dots, we are going to register this image as a material and make it an original tone.

 

To do this, first use the [Select]-[Rectangle] sub tool.

You can [Snap to Grid] with the [Selection] tool.

With [Snap to Grid] selected, create a selection range from the corners of the grid that created the hexagonal ruler.

When you have made your selection, use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move the selection to the left.

The movement is stopped when the last two circles are not covered by the selection range.

Once that's done, turn off Snap to Grid.

This time, delete the selection range of the protruding part from the two circles at the left end.

Hold down the Alt key and use the Select Rectangle tool to extend the leftmost circle to the edge of the circle and delete the selection.

I would like to register the selected range as material, but before that I will delete the hexagon ruler.

If the ruler is left as it is when registering the material, the ruler will be registered with it.

As a result, [Paste operation] cannot be checked and the tone cannot be created.

Be sure to delete the ruler.

Place the cursor on the triangular ruler mark on the layer palette and right-click the mouse.

From the menu that appears, select [Delete Ruler].

After deleting the ruler, select [Edit] menu-[Register material]-[Image] to display the registration screen.

Enter "Benday Dot" as the material name and check [Scale] and [Tiling] in [Paste].

This will create a repeating pattern of [Bendy dots].

It is recommended to save the material in [Monochrome pattern] → [Basic] → [Net].

If you want to add a [Search Tag] to make it easier to search later, add the [Original] and [Liquitenstein] tags.

When the input is complete and the OK button is pressed, [Bendy dot] is added to the material column.

Let's check the workmanship.

You can also change the enlargement ratio from [Tool Properties], so adjust the size so that it is easy to use.

To use it in color, right-click the "Bendy dot" layer on the [Layer] palette and select [Rasterize].

After that, select the color you want to change from the color set and execute [Change line color to drawing color] from the [Edit] menu.

Now you can colorize the "Bendy Dots".

 

This concludes this course.

Please use [Bendaydot] with your own work.

Thank you for reading to the end!

See you in another tip!