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MARKIEWICZ
Danuta Markiewicz (Danka)
Danuta “Danka” Markiewicz is a Polish artist who lives in Italy and creates
wonderful illustrated books using Illustrator and a bit of Photoshop. She
scans in her sketches, then runs them through Image Trace in black and
white with “Ignore White” enabled. Danka converts these traced illustrations
into Live Paint objects and colors and recolors the elements. She brings in
textures from Photoshop and changes the blending mode to Overlay. She
brings in her texture a second time and uses Image Trace in color mode. To
create the bowing she applies Effect> Warp> Arc to the image, and to both
an image and a drop-shadow. Opening the images and textures in
Photoshop, she combines some layers with Soft Light blending mode, while
on others she runs her favorite filter: Minimum. She integrates text in either
English or Polish using fonts that simulate handwriting. Though her
characters are vector-based and graphic in style, her final books end up
rather painterly and richly textured.
