{"id":3980,"date":"2020-11-05T16:17:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T01:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rickschwab.net\/?page_id=3980"},"modified":"2025-03-31T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T20:58:11","slug":"my-pixel-paint","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rickschwab.net\/?page_id=3980","title":{"rendered":"My Pixel Paint for Comedy Central and Others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is “pixel paint?” Quite simply it is painting pixels into an image using a pressure sensitive tablet. I like the Wacom tablet best. The stylus is pressure sensitive, and the Photoshop brush engine gives me hundreds of options for brush looks, color and texture. I used to use Corel Painter, but when Photoshop improved their software, I switched. Most of the painting I do integrates into the photograph, so you can’t tell where my painted effects are. The goal is to make an affective image. Pixel paint is a powerful tool for me.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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In 2014 I used my compositing and pixel painting talents to create the “Drunk History” campaign for Comedy Central. We remade famous historical images as if history was a frat party. The series was a big hit and Comedy Central won the Promax Gold Award 2014.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Here is another composite and pixel paint visu<\/strong>al for “Drunk History”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Pixel painting is more obvious in my remake of the famous “Uncle Sam” poster. See my process in the samples below this one:<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Step one: I cut up and repositioned Uncle Sam’s body and head. I then photographed my hand and a drink.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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The upper left image shows some of the brush styles I built to paint in the gaps and details I created; including the eye-wink, liquor splash and disheveled hair. The lower right image is the finished repainted poster.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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AI couldn’t figure this out. Only a creative human brain could.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is “pixel paint?” Quite simply it is painting pixels into an image using a pressure sensitive tablet. I like the Wacom tablet best. The stylus is pressure sensitive, and the Photoshop brush engine gives me hundreds of options for brush looks, color and texture. I used to use Corel Painter, but when Photoshop improved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickschwab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickschwab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickschwab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickschwab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickschwab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/rickschwab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4188,"href":"https:\/\/rickschwab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3980\/revisions\/4188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickschwab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}