Chaykin made wide use of Craftint Duoshade illustration boards, which in the period before computers, allowed him to add a shaded texture to the finished art.
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The art was created on a large illustration board, " on a one-to-one scale it was the size of the actual spread, " according to Powell.
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When working on the final illustration board, he does so on a large drawing board when in his basement studio, and a lapboard when sitting on his living room couch.
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Chaykin made wide use of Craftint Duoshade illustration boards for " American Flagg ! ", which in the period before computers, enabled him to add shaded textures to the finished art.
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One particularly helpful creator was " Conan " artist Mike Doherty, who advised him on what to draw, and gave him some 11 x 14 Marvel Comics illustration board to draw on.
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Although a few of his paintings are in oils, Angus McBride mostly preferred to work in gouache colors on illustration boards, making numerous detailed sketches of the composition before starting to paint.
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Perhaps his most original contribution was a technique he called monoetching, which involved applying a thin layer of wax to an illustration board which he then scratched through with a needle.
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But no matter how he is celebrated, the artist knows there is a clean, cold-pressed illustration board sitting on his drawing table that cares little for what he has done in the past.
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Layouts and comps are often done on different substrates because of this ( e . g ., tracing paper for a layout vs . calendered bond paper or illustration board for a comp ).
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Readers of " The New York Times " and other newspapers prior to the time they printed in color will be most familiar with the Hirschfeld drawings that are black ink on white illustration board.
