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Quick doodle #palettewitch #rubberhose #rubberhoseoc #toon #toonoc #characterdesign #originalcharacter #flettippen #cmyk https://www.instagram.com/p/B3b2NMGBsTB/?igshid=15997qvj8btqk
More cephalopods. CYMK and red/graphite black ombre. Again, coming soon to myousa.storenvy.com.
Inktober drawing is going to be late. I’ll post it tomorrow. Here’s a little bit of hand lettering that came as a result of me testing my ink samples.
CMYK color sheets I printed last night to test values on different colored paper. Quick, fun little project. #cmyk #offsetprinting #gradient #cardstock #graphicdesign #colorsheet #printing #design #ocularstatic https://www.instagram.com/p/B73dDrMJYT6/?igshid=1ehh8re3iyl8p
DIGITAL 👉 PRINT RGB 👉 CMYK SCREEN 👉 TEE #graphictees #merch #ondemand #tee #cmyk #cool #print #saturday #weekend #vibes #xuxoe #screen #characterdesign #3dart #design #graphics #cinema4d #instagood #silentsage (at Bangkok, Thailand) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQTYeI_p4Wv/?utm_medium=tumblr
Did the CMYK challenge thing!
ok, so this piece is one that I am still fairly proud of, it is just a printed digital photograph of me man-handling a bright orange saddleback gunnel, but I managed an edition of six and no major fuckups and that's pretty big for me.
you can't really hold these guys, they have to want to hang out on your hand, but they're pretty friendly and so they did want to hang out on me fairly often when we cleaned the tanks, although I don't think Noel my boss was too happy with me sticking my hand in the tank and taking this shot.
interesting note, I was a good volunteer at the marine Life Center partly because my hands do not get cold very fast so I could spent a lot of time with my hands in the tanks, either holding fish for visitors to pet, or more often whilst cleaning tanks.
back on topic, this print was my first exposure to using CMYK processes, the image itself was a digital image, which was split into CMYK channels (I used vibrance and some other things to beef up the colors first, it was a little more dull originally and I was worried about that getting muddy and lost) and then each channel was made into it's own individual image, and converted into a bitmap to make it into ben-day dots each image with a particular orientation of dots so that they did not overlap but were next to one another. this was then printed via laser printer onto four plastic sheets and then ink was applied to the sheets and then the paper through a process marginally resembling lithography.
the ink on each plate only stuck to the places where there was already black toner, and I learned that in printing CMYK is both a description of the inks used, and the order in which they must be applied. cyan is darker/more visible, than magenta or process yellow, and so putting it down first allows the printmaker to align the subsequent colors more easily.
because I managed to do every step correctly and accounted well for my time this was one of the best of these in my class, which is a surprise, because any of the photography students could have (I hope anyway) crapped out a better color photograph in their sleep, they all however, opted to get creative in their process.
if there is a thing I have learned as a printmaker it is this thing, trust your process and be diligent. I can't always do it, but I think I did ok here.
alright, we'll take a break from the main deer girl stuff for a second and talk process.
both of these were made for the same project in relief printmaking, a class which I had not taken before, despite my obvious enjoyment of the process, heck, I bet not having the joy beaten out of me early on is what allowed me to like relief in the first place.
but more on the waking nightmare that was this class later.
the smaller cruder image was obviously made first, I thought I could get away with making an image out of three long thirds cut out of one large block. (spoiler alert: I could not) I used CMY colors to allow blending and then forgot to put any actual care into the image itself. this is because I wanted to experiment a little with multi-color processes before committing myself to something fancy that I was terrified I would have to hang in my show.
the larger and proper CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and Key means black because it locks the other three together) image was also a hellscape, but in different ways. I had trouble getting the four 1/2 blocks to align because when I transferred the image from the key block to the others it became mis-aligned. and because I did not realize this would be such a problem I didn't make enough prints to account for the mistakes and the misalignments.
man I'm getting stress flashbacks just sitting here typing about that class. hurrgurblurgh.
anyways, that christmas I gave my back-home friend carte blanche on picking out a print or two as christmas presents and Alex and Sara picked one of my messed up prints of this image which they now hang framed proudly in the entrance to their home. I have begged them to at least hang it (and the physical evidence of the shame and failure that it embodies) in the bathroom but to no avail. they like the messed up bits the best.
ÄTSCH!!!
RGB Dogs, Remade some old ocs
Old designs(2017):
