Printmaking in the Digital Era
Emu Man Is Not Pleased, I guess?
I have a bunch of prints to post! But I’m going to draw them out over a while cuz I can.
I took a printmaking mini-elective in my foundations year and I enjoyed a lot of things about it. (At least, about plexi monotyping.) I’d been waiting to take another printmaking elective and this semester one came up called “Printmaking in the Digital Era.” As a geek, I thought that sounded awesome. And it is.
Our first assignment was to make 10 prints starting with found imagery or our own imagery printed out digitally, and then printed on using stencils, xerox transfers, etc.
This is one of my favorites. Really simple- I found an image of some dude in a magazine, cut it out and scanned it in. Then I took an old illustration and digitally manipulated it so it fit in .. more or less seamlessly. I printed that out on an inkjet printer, and then pretty much just put yellow stripes on it. I like yellow stripes.
It’s simple, but it makes me smile. The other prints went in some fairly different directions, so stay tuned and check ‘em out! (Especially if you like robots. Just trust me on that.)
2 Color Illustration
Have a cute!
This was a quickie assignment from my illustration class. We just had to make a 2-color illustration that could be used on a shopping bag from a store of our choice, or a generic type of store. I picked a plushie store, since I had so much fun making one over Christmas. (Which I just realized I never posted! I will do that later.)
I know this looks like it has at least 3 colors, but weirdly enough it really is made from just 2 (and percentage tints thereof). The golden yellow and purple are what I used, and the red actually came from mixing the two. That’s how photoshop did it anyway, I’m somehow unconvinced that real ink would do that… but I’m interested in trying it sometime. I want to try screenprinting this onto tshirts or canvas bags. (Too bad I have almost no screenprinting experience, yay!)
Comic: Lady Goga
2 weeks, 2 comics! Look how well I’m doing. Read Post »
A New Endeavor
I’m starting a comic!
No, really, I’m going to do it this time. Drawing the dailybean was really good for me, and I miss drawing every day. I won’t have time for it when school starts again, but I will MAKE time for a weekly something- ranging from comic to bean.
I’ve tried to start comics a lot of times, and every time, I’ve failed to launch. I second guess myself and refuse to do things unless I think they are perfect. I can’t say without a doubt that that is over, but this is my pledge to try. What’s important to me now isn’t that I create The Perfect Amazing Webcomic, just that I get drawing, that I stop editing myself into nothing before I even begin.
Hoo-ah!
EDIT: Holy shit the colors on this are ATROCIOUS. I’ll fix it sometime. Weird monitor business. Eeeesh.
Belated Holiday Greetings
My sister calls him "Star Trek Santa."
I don’t really tend to get into the “Holiday Spirit”, but I do like making cards. This is the front of the Christmas card I made for my extended family this year.
Actually what I wound up doing was making a combination Christmas card / ornament. This was the front, and inside I had another one glued to thicker board and cutout, with a loop of embroidery floss tied at the top. I saved the board I cut the shape from, so I could press it back into place and give it a little frame to sit in before the card was opened.
It would probably make more sense with a photo, but I don’t have one! SO SUCK IT. And I hope you had a lovely holiday season.
