Black & white poster design (high contrast / line drawing)

[Brian Jones]

do you want to have the objects with shape only-no shading or by structure do you mean the edges (polys etc) should be visible? (or both?)

Just the object shape with no shading you can get with luminant textures (which kills the shading) to see edges you need Sketch and Toon (or Cel Shader)

[Thoreau Bakker]

Brian,

thanks for the response!

I’m not exactly sure how to describe what I’m going for.

Imagine a simple text block (mo text or whatever), a mat white.
The background would also be white, but there would be either black trim of a few pixels around every edge (to show the shapes) or even the sides of the text would be black.

My main goal is to have legible, block text, with very little black (easier on ink)and no gradient / color shading.

Sort of like the Metallica logo, but without the black background:
https://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k53/oskarotenks/MetallicaLogoDM.png

Again, thanks for your time and sorry for my poor explanations.. Does it make sense now?

Thoreau

[Brian Jones]

you can make an exact duplicate of the Metallica thing (with White background and white text with black lines) with Sketch and Toon if you have it otherwise you can get close (with a much gentler learning curve with the Cel Renderer).

[Thoreau Bakker]

Brian,

sorry for the delay in response (busy weekend)..

MUCH thanks for the great tips.

I have my Monday night planned!!

– Thoreau