#development drawing

Here you can see my further development image from before but this time completed, and with it we can see a seventh development of which I think came out really well.

The further development has on it that 3D effect from before but this time the pink sharpie is on the right side and the blue is on the left, that’s all that was added. I don’t think I’ll go forward with this anymore as I want to try other ideas out, with those ideas hopefully containing animals.

More of my digital work, taken from my original experimental excerises.

Image 1 - I edited my original image, increasing the saturation to bring out the colour and also show more of the grain from the scanned image. I then used the Glitch effect to create the break in the image and then the Edge tool from Liquify effect to create the spiky texture.

Image 2 - I created a new layer and blocked it in with Pink and Yellow. I used the Liquify effect to move the colours around into a pattern and then blended it using Hard Mix mode.

Image 3 - I edited my original image, increasing the saturation to bring out the colour. I duplicated the original image, flipped it and blended it using Darken mode.

Image 4 - I edited my original image, increasing the saturation to bring out the colour. I duplicated the original image, flipped it and blended it using Hard Mix mode. I also then went onto the first layer and blended it using Exclusion mode.

My favourite from these is Image 4. I love the burst of colour and the grainy texture. As I have felt through out this brief, I think my digital work is my strongest work but I have learned how to convert my images to be suitable for printing and I would love to try and create a similar print to Image 4 - I would need to limit the colour choices but I think it would look really interesting as a Riso print or maybe with some practice as a Screen print.

I started to manipulate my image digitally using Procreate.

Image 1 - I copied the image, flipped it and blended it using Multiply. I then distorted the image using the Liquify effect.

Image 2 - I copied the image twice, scaled them down and rotated them to fit on top of the original layer. I then blended them using Subtract.

Image 3 - I copied the image twice, scaled them down and rotated them to fit on top of the original layer. I then blended them using Exclusion.

Image 4 - I edited my original image, increasing the saturation to bring out the colour and also show more of the grain from the scanned image. I then copied and pasted different sections of the image and blended them together using Multiply.

Image 5 - I created this image using two different effects, Halftone to make it look closer to a screen print and Chromatic Aberration. I played around with the scale of the Chromatic Aberration until I got it to a result I was happy with.

My favourites out of these are 2 and 3. I love the dark colours and contrast, it's pretty different to the other work I've done for this brief but I do think it works well.

Some more of my analogue work.

Image 1 - Full image.

Image 2 - Close up. I tried to copy the graffiti from my original image. I used two shades of green watercolour and used my finger to blend some areas to create the same texture.

Image 3 - Close up. I tried to copy the graffiti from my original image. I used two shades of green watercolour and used my finger to blend some areas to create the same texture.

Image 4 - Full image.

Image 5 - I had create this background using soft pastels and wanted to try and do a continuous line drawing on top of it but I found it too tricky to do with black ink so I stopped that and moved onto a new sheet of paper.

Image 6 - I really liked the background I had done in the other image so I recreated it and mirrored it onto the page next to it. I tried again to do a continuous line drawing but had the same difficulty as before. I ended up just finishing the image so I could fill up the page and I closed my sketchbook over. I checked it later on and realised it had printed a bit onto the first attempt and so I added more lines and closed it over again to see the result I would have.

There isn't much here but I am much happier with these than I was with the other images. I believe I was successful in my attempt to recreate the graffiti and the texture in Image 1. I was really surprised with Image 4 but I am happy with it. I wouldn't say it was perfect but it's a technique I will keep in mind for the future.

After hearing feedback from my lecturers, I was told to add more experimental work. I decided to start with analogue techniques.

During this winter season and another lockdown, I have been having trouble sleeping and find it difficult to focus on things for long periods of time so these exercises were all between 5 - 15 minutes.

Image 1 - Reworked an old pencil drawing. I traced over my shapes and lines (and in some cases, drew in the shapes) with Posca pens.

Image 2 - Reworked an old pencil drawing. I traced over my shapes and lines (and in some cases, drew in the shapes) with Posca pens.

Image 3 - Reworked an old pencil drawing. I traced over my shapes and lines (and in some cases, drew in the shapes) with Posca pens.

Image 4 - Reworked an old pencil drawing. I traced over my shapes and lines (and in some cases, drew in the shapes) with soft pastels.

Image 5 - I created the background using soft pastels. I cropped into the corner of my object outlined it in black ink.

Image 6 - I made the background using a small roller and black ink. I then quickly sketched the object using soft pastels over it.

Image 7 - I broke the object down in shapes and used spare pieces of Green card I had to create the shape. I painted using black watercolour into the spaces to make it more cohesive.

Image 8 - I tried something different for this image. Instead of drawing the actual object, I cropped into the corner of it and tried to draw the background with black ink. It was unsuccessful.

I'm not particularly happy with this work. I like what I have done in Image 3 but I feel like it should be worked on more. I liked the idea of Image 5 but I don't like the texture and the contrast of the ink against the background. I was very disappointed with the result of Image 8.

Updated mind-map, my issues regarding my printing have been added.

I started thinking about what I wanted to do for my Zine. This was a basic idea that I did in 10 minutes, but I mostly did it to see what kind of fold I wanted and what order I wanted my images in.

I decided to create all my images digitally and this is the end result I have. (The bottom corner being the front)

I haven't had time or resources to print this out yet but I think after I see it physically for the first time, I might go back and make some changes if I'm not happy with it.

I decided to continue with my digital work and focused more on using my threshold image using Procreate.

Image 1 - Threshold of my original image

Image 2 - Threshold of my cropped image

Image 3 - Created a new layer, filled it with colour blocked shapes (in pink, yellow and green) I used the Liquify effect and then blended the layer using Overlay into the first image.

Image 4 - Created a new layer, filled it with colour blocked shapes (in pink, yellow and green) I used the Liquify effect and then blended the image using Subtract into the colour layer.

Image 5 - Created a new layer, filled it with colour blocked shapes (in pink, yellow and green) using the Wet Acrylic brush. I duplicated the colour layer to show more text and blended them using Screen and Lighten Colour into the first image.

Image 6 - Created a new layer, filled it with colour blocked shapes (in pink, yellow and green) I used the Glitch effect and the Noise effect to create different colours, texture and grain. Then I blended the image using Subtract into the colour layer.

Image 7 - Created a new layer, filled it with colour blocked shapes (in pink, yellow and green) I used the Liquify effect and the Glitch effect to create different colours and shapes. Then I blended the image using Divide into the colour layer.

Image 8 - Created a new layer, filled it with colour blocked shapes (in pink, yellow and green) I used the Halftone effect then I blended the image using Exclusion into the colour layer.

I love working digitally, I feel that it's a necessary part of my creative process before printing. I really like the shape of the colours in Image 3 but I also really like the texture that the colours have in Image 5. I like the added grain in Image 6, I think it works well to tie all the bright colours in with the black image. The glitch effect in Image 7 is very different to anything I've done before and it interests me so much. I don't think it's an effect I could do successfully while printing but I want to keep it in mind for more digital experiments.