Out Of Order : Completed

4 Dnd Designs: Are going to be re-briefd as 4 character boards

Creepy Cryptid Lino cuts: Getting 3x Final Image prints done 1st is in progress

FMP: Need to blog initial concepts

Passion Fruit: Deadline 7 th Priority 

Penguin Brief: Doing needs Final touches to front and extention to back cover doing 7th Also

Summary (What Needs to Get done this week)

Penguin Finished by Thursday 2nd

Passionfruit By Monday 6th  

After Re Prioritise 

CMV Cut + Print

The issue with cutting Lino is that sometimes you slip about 80% though cutting your lino and all you want to do is die because why is this happening.

However the more you deal with lino the more aware you become of good old adaptability. 

The problem with reduction prints however is that as soon as you've recut for the next layer you can do no more prints of the first. Also you can sometimes cut out more than you need to. Which is why I always keep a photo copy of the lino cut to mark what does and doesn't need cutting. 

I used two different techniques on these images. The first layer was hand burnished with a padded burnisher. Allowing for the grey ink to come out in an almost stone like effect. The second was the a simple relief print that allowed the solid black of the lining to stand out against the textured paper and first layer. This created (in my opinion) a gorgeous contrast in texture that the subtle differences in colour emphasised. 

CMV-Intial SKetches

I've decided to just go for it. I really want to do  something that I personally enjoy so, I'm going to just create work and get it to fit the brief. I've kind of gone with the social unacceptability of out of order aka taboo. But in a really parisian noir gothic kind of way. 

I wanted to draw two thing that I like to draw. Women and Monsters. The idea of a forbidden 'love' between the two that is more symbolic than crude has become the point of this.

 I had this idea of someone looking at the image in a old parisian cafe as they retell the tale of the image to an american journalist looking for inspiration in europe. And after they tell this fantastical tale of the blurred lines between the personification of female innocence falling in love with this deformed monstrosity representing death they'd take a long drag from their cigarette in its long black holder and say "to fall in love with death, is truly, out of order' 

I know it's a bit convoluted but having these narrative tales in my head can really help create the passion and drive behind a project. I started to sketch things out and a major thing with this one was composition and shape. The contrast between tall and long and short and wide silhouettes mimics the contrast within what the subjects represent. 

This also draws upon my spooks a week as I wanted to create a more advanced narrative scene similar to the way I am wanting to advance my lino cuts. Another similarity is the fact that I will be pushing my lino cutting again in creating a reduction with this piece. Keeping with the narrative background of this in my head the image will be black and grey. Creating this simplistic parisian gothic aesthetic to the piece. 

CMV

I feel pretty tired and drained after the Dissertation. As well as feeling underwhelmed by the work I've produced since then. I'm hoping the historical editorial work, forces me out of the slump I'm in right now. 

i don't really know what I'm going to do here apart from a print. I don't really know how to approach out of order cause I don't just want to do a load of glitches and machinery .  

Character and senario desings based on Thought Bubble Feed back and personal comic

After Thought Bubble I decided to work more on my character design in my own time. I'd gotten great feedback from people on my own personal character based work there and alongside my recent creation, Tar baby I wanted to a comic based around the two characters (tar baby & Box lady) who I'd talked about to others at the convention. 

So I began to draw up some short stories and character interaction illustrations. I found this to be more of a personal project for me that reignited my love for character and narrative. After college I hope to do more character boards and the beginning chapters for my comic as a way of keeping something that is a personal and long running project for myself and my comic/personal side of my practice. 

I'm am however going to look at doing some short comics via anthology and comic competitions as away of developing my comic and story telling skills as well as monetising that side of my practice.