A closer look at how I created The Company Album of Modern Trades.
Starting with 19th-century Indian trade paintings from the Wellcome Collection, I created a Recraft V4 Style and reimagined historical workers as modern-day tradespeople.
The guiding idea: Same Pose. New Tool.
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In the Wellcome Collection I found Trades and occupations in India, a 19th-century album of gouache paintings by an unnamed Indian artist that sets each worker against a pale, empty sky. I cropped six of its Public Domain Mark panels into a Recraft V4 Style and painted the...
