Frankenstein inspired – OLD SCRATCH PRESS

By Robert Fleming

For Halloween what are digital graphic artists doing? Yours truly, is making digital images of monsters. Oops! Oh NO, I came out as a digital graphics artist. I will show you how, to make monsters.

My inspiration for monsters is the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley first published 1/1/1818. Since Mary died 2/1/1851 and Frankenstein sells 40,000 copies a year, who is collecting Mary’s royalties? Hmm?

Frankenstein, Mary’s first monster child

HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN MONSTER

One of the computer software tools I use to create digital graphics is Canva which has a free and paid version. Home – Canva. To create a monster:

access a device with www access
choose your image which could be a photograph you took or an image which is free (in public domain) on the www
cut away the parts you don’t want by cropping the image which is like using an electronic scissors
if the image background has a border frame (like white) you don’t want, you can remove it by using computer software to remove background like Adobe Express Free Image Background Remover | Adobe Express
on the www go to Canva
in Canva create a Design
upload your image(s) into Canva (toolbar to the left of your image)
copy/move your uploaded image to your design page
click on the image
duplicate the image page (so you will have the original), toolbar on the top right of the image, click on the +
move your curser to the duplicate image
click on edit, toolbar above your image, left side
on left side of image, click on apps “see all”
click on Liquify (4^th row, far right)
click on Flow (2^d row, far right)
set the flow options: melt amount 1 / melt scale 1/ woble amount 1 /woble scale 1
if you like the image, click on “save”