H.M.Punton Illustration & Animation

I managed to complete a decent amount of relief prints since last update. I started off by doing some dry prints where you run the paper with the plate through the roller press without ink. this gives an embossed effect to the paper which can look quite nice. I then started to use the different ink's, starting with a classic black. I then experimented with the different colours available. I managed to get red and blue prints done as well as a good amount of black. Overall I am really happy with how my updated artwork went with this technique. the relief printing method picks up a lot of fine detail and when compared to screen printing feels a lot more clean and tactial to do. I think I would defiantly choose this method over screen printing if I want to do prints in future. T arget M y target for this week will be to get some more experiments done with the printing. I want to get a black print done on red since I think the contrast will look really nice. I ...

I have started work on the relief printing part of the project and taken my image from the previous  part and gone back in to add more detail since this printing technique shows detail better. I wanted to almost replicate tattoo art style by adding the heavy black shading to the piece. I have already had the piece sent to the laser cutter and got my etched acrylic back. Target: -I plan on getting some relief prints done by the end of this week and should have an update with images of the prints next week. 

For my alternative techniques project we are looking into a bunch of different print making techniques like Screen printing, Relief printing and Riso Printing. I've completed the screen printing using this Day of the Dead wolf skull design and I thought I'd post some of the prints I ended up with. T he first 3 are all just acrylic on different coloured card and the final is a print which is done much the same way. My first few runs with the screen worked out better, as it went on the paint started bleeding or missing large spaces out. Don't know whether this is just from the paint mix being off or if the screen itself was becoming too loose. I quite like some of the results where it didn't work perfect like the black print on the red which has a nice worn look to it.

This is my first post of my second year doing Animation & Illustration. I thought I would update the blog on what I've done thus far in my second year. I've completed one project (Character Design) and am part way through my Alternative Tecniques project which is a print making project.  I have also just started a narrative project where I am putting together a story following on from my character design from the previos project. I thought I would start off by posting some images from my Character Design project and then is further posts going into what I've done so far in relation to my other projects. I started off the project by focusing on expression and how simple changes to things like the placement of eyebrows or pupils, as well as the distance between them can effect a characters expression. I did some experimentation with taking a random head shape and then adding features to change the overall feel of the character. For the actual character design I en...