That looks fabulous, man. It really suits your style and you have a really good choice of colours for it. Are you just doing linocut, or are you doing any other forms of printmaking?
I just noticed the temple in the background. Niicceee.
This assignment was done before any of the others shown. We were told to divide our block of pine (this is actually carved into the back of the self portrait board) into 8 equal sections and produce "an interesting dark/light design" in each, incorporating text into at least one of them.
This was the second time I even used the tools. The first was a quick assignment telling us to carve lines using each tool to know how each works. I might post it later.
So, in my illustration class, I had to make an 8-page, 5" square saddle-stitched booklet. No text allowed, a children's instructional guide on how to make a fire. I chose a method I found on youtube whose effectiveness I question.
hahaha childrens instructional guide is almost as funny as having only a condom and water instead of a lighter or match. You did a good job illustrating the ridiculousness of it.
In my illustration class, I have to make an "altered book."
I found this old science book for kids from the 60s at an antique store near my pad:
Using illustrations from it and a few similar books from the era, I'm giving it a twist of being written for alien children living alongside humans kind of District-9 style. The idea is that the aliens are most definitely a minority, but the book is like propaganda encouraging alien kids to conquer/eat/etc. humans.
Here's the new front and back covers:
and here's a detail showing how I'm trying to maintain the original worn look of the book:
Thanks, man. I worked pretty hard on camouflaging it. I did the spine this morning. it was more of a challenge. I still need to touch it up, I'll post it when I do.
In my illustration class, I have to make an "altered book."
I found this old science book for kids from the 60s at an antique store near my pad:
Using illustrations from it and a few similar books from the era, I'm giving it a twist of being written for alien children living alongside humans kind of District-9 style. The idea is that the aliens are most definitely a minority, but the book is like propaganda encouraging alien kids to conquer/eat/etc. humans.
Here's the new front and back covers:
and here's a detail showing how I'm trying to maintain the original worn look of the book:
I scanned the original book, cloned out the stuff I didn't want. drew the new stuff by hand, scanned in that lineart. made a selection from that lineart and duplicated the background and used levels and hue/saturation slider to keep the original texture. same for the added text.
printed it on label paper, put it back on the book. sanded it down some and stained some of the sanded areas with watercolor.
oh, and I glued the fabric back to the spine with fabric glue.
here's the first of the illustrations that I've editted. There are multiple illustration styles that I'm using and will have to match. I chose this as the easiest one to do first.
the easiest thing to do would be to would be make one big text block
then just manually change the settings using the type window
like make the kerning better, looks like they just have an en dash (apple+shift+n) instead of a tab, it also looks like his typeface is bigger so go a step up from roman, but bold might be too strong
was using Century. Bold was too thick, moved to Century Schoolbook, a little thicker it seems. Now are you talking an en-dash as in –? Not using a mac, and ctrl+shft+n even when editing text in photoshop has a different function.
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Registration really is a bitch, be glad you weren't doing it reductive style.
pretty cool. I think any anatomy issues are forgivable because it comes together really well.
I just noticed the temple in the background. Niicceee.
collagraph coming up at the end of the semester.
This assignment was done before any of the others shown. We were told to divide our block of pine (this is actually carved into the back of the self portrait board) into 8 equal sections and produce "an interesting dark/light design" in each, incorporating text into at least one of them.
This was the second time I even used the tools. The first was a quick assignment telling us to carve lines using each tool to know how each works. I might post it later.
anyway, just finished it up, here it is, starting with the back and front cover:
Hahaha, this is wrong. It's like a 1920s condom...snake.
also, I hope my nod to Hokusai's wave is evident in that last page.
I found this old science book for kids from the 60s at an antique store near my pad:
Using illustrations from it and a few similar books from the era, I'm giving it a twist of being written for alien children living alongside humans kind of District-9 style. The idea is that the aliens are most definitely a minority, but the book is like propaganda encouraging alien kids to conquer/eat/etc. humans.
Here's the new front and back covers:
and here's a detail showing how I'm trying to maintain the original worn look of the book:
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old:
new:
reduction print, 5"x 8" linocut.
facebook.com/LauraCatherwoodArt
printed it on label paper, put it back on the book. sanded it down some and stained some of the sanded areas with watercolor.
oh, and I glued the fabric back to the spine with fabric glue.
facebook.com/LauraCatherwoodArt
here's the first of the illustrations that I've editted. There are multiple illustration styles that I'm using and will have to match. I chose this as the easiest one to do first.
original image:
new image:
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here it is in action.
and by orphans i mean the type
I'm leaving some of the original text in and I'm trying to match its setup as closely as possible. It's just as bad throughout:
you have huge spaces between your letters
you could try and get rid of the orphans, the example you showed yes it does have an orphan but not for both lines
If you couldn't tell, I know jack shit about typography.
then just manually change the settings using the type window
like make the kerning better, looks like they just have an en dash (apple+shift+n) instead of a tab, it also looks like his typeface is bigger so go a step up from roman, but bold might be too strong
better?
was using Century. Bold was too thick, moved to Century Schoolbook, a little thicker it seems. Now are you talking an en-dash as in –? Not using a mac, and ctrl+shft+n even when editing text in photoshop has a different function.