Weekly update + targets - two tone prints



Relief Prints
Last week I finished up my relief printing using the roller press. I wanted to finish up by doing some two colour prints. the first one I did was done by turning my acrylic square over onto the side without the illustration on it and then putting it through with red ink to create a perfect red square. I then waited for that to dry and ran through over it with the illustration in black. This gave the effect of the red poking through the gaps of white.

The other two I did were both done by putting red and black on the roller together. this created a nice gradient effect. I did one horizontal and one vertical. the vertical one came out looking more distressed due to the ink running low but the horizontal one came out really clean. I am happy with how these 3 prints came out and think it was a good way to finish my relief printing off.

Digital Narrative - story boards 


These are the story boards i'm working with for my narrative project. I've been told to limit myself down to 3 panels and get those done then I can work more in when those are done as in between panels. I'm basically looking at this now as being more of a triptych that i can build upon.  

Targets 
This week I am planning on getting my story boards finalised and my 3 panels chosen. I also need to start work on an illustration to use with Riso printing which were starting next week as part of our print making project. I should hopefully have updates on both of those next week in my update.



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