With the limited palette that typography holds, it was nice that I found a way to express my illustrative style through printmaking. In the end, this process opened my eyes more into the business side of designing, as well as towards a sub-section of printmaking through a typographers mind. Only after a short amount of time working, I soon realized that people love buttons. It would give more variety to the customers depending on their tastes. The overall design was interesting, especially in contrast to the less detailed merchandise that would be sold at the vending position. After making sure that the block was steady (by putting magnets around it), I rolled the press over the coaster to give me a solid black print. A sketch of the main trio of characters for the prospective story, ‘Asterism’, which is intended to subvert many archetypes of the shounen manga genre. An even coat of ink was rolled onto the lino, to which I could endlessly print my design. This little bird has just flown off from my drawing room towards the Biennale of Illustration, Bratislava, to be part of the Migrations Exhibition. Since I was still in a type workshop, everything had to be type high, which is the international height that the type or blocks have to be from the bottom to the top, or foot to the face ( 0.918 inches). This leaves a noticeable blue line that I can cut along.Īfter cutting the lino, I got to print my design. To transfer my design onto the lino, I used a carbon print to trace the original onto the block. The detail that I wanted to put into the bird was enough in itself.Īfter choosing my design, I sketched it out once more to be certain what the bird would look like, and to draw in the areas which I would cut away (the white parts). Not only would it be very difficult to either cut the letters out or align the curved type well enough, but it didn’t seem necessary for the overall design. Published: 0 Favourites 0 Comments 61 Views bird cute digitalart lineart workinprogress Bird work in progress - a sketch of a bird, from a previous live stream Image details Image size 1032x774px 41. During that time I was partnered with Crow Designs, so I experimented with placing their brand name along the circumference of the design. Ongoing Drawing Contest 11+SBD Prize Pool Reminder, there are less than 4 days left to enter my bird tutorial contest Thank you to enternamehere for. After a while, I started sketching different styles and seeing which of them would look best on merchandise. Drawing baby birds was never my forte, so I had to do some research. Typically I have an image in my head of what I would like my design to look like. Welcome to another segment of, The Work In Progress.For a vending position, I decided to create a “Baby Bird Print” which would be used to create coasters and buttons.
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