Preserved Topic: Grunge Technique!?

I just want to try to make some art with the grunge technique, but I dont have done something with that before, so I was wondering if someone could give me some advice or some links to some tutorials to make some 'grunge art'...

I know you need some fonts and brushes are there any fonts that are used a lot for this technique!? Thanks in advance...

Whats the grunge technique look like ? Post a couple links or pics =)

Pearl Jam!!

heh heh ... try Chank's free fonts, there are a few that fall under the category of grunge there.

Here is a tip, I remember in school my instructor was telling us about a last minute project she had picked up - the client wanted a "grunge/gen-x look" for a brochure. She used a lot of green and purple (to fulfill the gen-x requirement she said) and for the "grunge" effect, she said she zoomed in ~200 - 500% and degraded the edges of things with the eraser tool w/rough brushes. She said it took a long time but was worth it. ( she was trying to convince us to never rely on filters - she rocked!)

Good luck and stay away from flannel!

I mean things like this [the borders, you can see the fonts etc]...
http://turpentine.ellicit.org/tutorials/Grunge/images/5.gif http://logique.parthera.com/art/d005.jpg http://d-a.strikenet.at/silent/selfdestruction.jpg

This is a example of a tut I just found of an grunge brush:
http://www.axxessdenied.com/tuts/photoshop/grungebrushes/index.php

I didnt mean some special grunge fonts, but those fonts they use a lot... uhmmm... those with a lot of curves, those 'caligraphy [Dont know if I wrote that right] fonts'...

[edit] I found some good grunge brushes on www.digitexturia.com too, just wanted to let you all no [/edit]



[This message has been edited by CryoniX (edited 09-06-2001).]

Your best bet for tracking down the elusive and unique 'grunge trend' would be DBM, there are 3 mentions of 'grunge' techniques on the first page, here ya go


[This message has been edited by moaiz (edited 09-06-2001).]

Thanks, I got an idea now how to get started...

I found a cool tutorial awhile back about this. It's a little out of the ordinary, but perhaps it will get you going in the right direction....
http://www.adobe.com/print/gallery/loughran/howto.html

On a different note, here is a pretty cool tutorial from NeoFrog.. I have used it before... looks good if you play around with it...
http://www.neofrog.com/tips/texure1.html



[This message has been edited by acidbox (edited 09-07-2001).]

I swear, this tute get's posted in here at least once a month every month without fail:

Steve's Displace Tutorial

Most importantly, the last few paragraphs of this specific page of the tutorial.

Try this one at DiK

// Softhead
evensen oriGinal

Thanks to you all... I like that pic at DIK...

Well, I played around with this grunge thing today. Inspirated by Faithless - Tarantula and this thread I came up with this spider after some hours.

This dirty look isn't my style, I'm more that abstract_wannabe_guy But it was fun playin around. What do you think?

// Softhead
evensen oriGinal

That's really sweet. I like the colors. It's big! Are you using it for a desktop?

Well, I'm not sure what I'm using it for It just a piece of fun! I like work with big sizes, have some space to work on

// Softhead
evensen oriGinal

I don't see what "Steve's Displace Tutorial" has to do with grunge...

I don't see what 'grunge' has to do with the style being shown either (or with any style of music )....but hey....

I agree, I'd call it the "dirty" technique or the "messy scribble" technique... still, you're not going to get anything like that using displace.

HS: I was refering to this page in particular. When steve was talking about how Dark Garden used the displace filter in this image:


Image by Dark Garden, Posted without permission

I just thought it fitted into the topic well, thats all.

I played with it and managed not to use displace either, I think Juxt interactive made it 'popular' now its trendy.