Showing posts with label printing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label printing. Show all posts

Thursday, 8 December 2011

{ Setting }

The last week has been an absolute nightmare. Last weekend it came to my attention that time leading up to the christmas holidays was running out extremely fast and I had a hell of a lot of work to do. I had set myself the task of getting three illustrations completed, using print techniques, then screen printed by the holidays. This, last weekend, seemed like an impossible task. So I set out a plan. To have all of the illustrations completed by this sunday then that left me with eight days to screen print them. three illustrations in a week isn't really a big deal but i hadn't thought them through entirely and because i was using printing techniques I had to spend a lot of time carving into lino. Its thursday night and I have finished all the elements for the first illustration, just need to stick it together in Photoshop, and fine tuning the sketches of the second. I am planning on doing it out of two pieces of lino at the most because the first one was done in about eight and it took way too long. if i finish the designs tonight and begin carving and printing tomorrow then i should be well on my way to achieving the Sunday deadline. And then the screen printing can begin.


I thought I would show you a few photos of my work space in my new room. My girlfriend and I moved in together just after the summer and we have just moved into the larger room in the flat. Just out of picture are the mass amount of consoles and games we have. She is somewhat of a retro game collector.



The desk

iM dusty screen

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

{ Illustration Friday - Silent }


I did this illustration a few years ago for a save the world project. The polar bear is lost at sea after his ice cap has melted and is left floating at sea, silent and unimpressed. Im now using it for Illustration Friday.

Sunday, 13 November 2011

{ Lino Printing Machine }

It has been a while since I last delved into print making and I felt like I needed to ease myself back into it. I decided to do a few prints to get myself back on track with the whole experience. 

I forgot to mention that about a year and a half ago I bought myself a relief press. It's an absolute beauty and I can't wait to use it for this project. I got it made at a local blacksmiths around this design. It's roughly between A3 and A2 so its pretty big. It's currently at my friends flat after a night of printing but il post about it and might do a tutorial.

Any way I didn't have the press so I had to use the back on my hand but I think they turned out well. I was concentrating on the short story in the project The Company Of Wolves, which is mostly set in a wood, I was going to do a tree. So I did...





It was a two colour lino using one piece of lino which I had never done before. But now iv got my head around it I'm going to be experimenting a lot more with this kind of technique.