How does make this old 40s/50s style artwork on a computer?
>>297704
or even older stuff like this?
>>297704
Try googling "Che effect _____" with the blank being the software you are using. Pro tip: not happening in MS Paint. Shadilay, brother.
>>297704
The faces were done in Illustrator with Image Trace.
Learn to draw and paint, learn Adobe PS and AI, get a graphics tablet for your computer, study the piece of inspiration and make your own. Basically getting that one or another 'style'/'effect' perfectly requires intensive study for several years.
Computer software are just a tool, it won't automatically make you a proficient artist.
>>297734
And copied from an actual Soviet poster.
>>297704
This poster looks very much like Image Trace (a tool in Adobe Illustrator) was used (it leaves a very distinctive appearance - look at the jagged edges on the faces).
Image Trace converts photographic images into vectors (vectors are mathematically plotted shapes, which are infinitely scalable, because they're defined by their lines, their curves, their angles - fonts are vectors, because you can infinitely scale them without pixellation).
So basically someone drew those two faces, probably using pen and paper (or maybe pencil, who the fuck knows), then a photograph of the drawing was imported into Illustrator, and they ran the Image Trace tool on it.
Image Trace allows you to define the number of colours that are used to make the automated tracing. Clearly this person set that number to "2", which is why you see only two shades on the faces - yellow and black.
So now you know how to make an image like that. An alternative way to get a similar result would be to buy a graphics tablet, and use that to draw your artwork directly on the computer.
But the draw by hand -> take a photograph -> Image Trace method is very effective, especially since you don't need to invest in a graphics tablet. I have used this method many times when designing things. Image Trace is a really great tool.
>>297705
This is a hand-drawn (possibly hand-painted?) poster.
The artist would have sketched out the design probably using pencil. Then they coloured it. They probably did paint the colours. Coloured pencils can't get the depth of colour that you can see here. And I don't know if they even had coloured pencils in those days. So I would strongly guess that the colours are painted, by hand of course.
Hope this helps.