Back in the ’80s, there were a number of guys in art school playing with grayscale textures created by flicking a toothbrush loaded with ink onto a piece of bristol or illustration board. They would carefully cut frisket masks like a stencil and painstakingly flick an inky toothbrush at the exposed areas of the paper to build up gray tones with an interesting texture. Sometimes, it was worth it. Other times, it was a dispiriting waste of a few sheets of frisket, a few X-Acto No. 11 blades, some ink, a toothbrush and several hours. I think the type treatment above took me about five minutes to do digitally in Affinity Designer.
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