some examples of the finished ink drawinsg.
here are few examples of the mono that iv been working from to adapt to my inked city drawings. iv not been useing them as a full page iv been using them almost like a jigsaw. taking parts from different pages some just center meters long and some half pages. almost like building lego. some of the finished piece has had over 60 layers on.
a couple finished results from using this method.
this one i think im going to print out like this and get some chalk texture in them buildings to make them come to life.
i love this one. this was one of he images with 10s of layers. was tricky and hard. most of the textures was cought by using parts of the mono prints that was just cms wide and high. and with a little high lights here and there i realy thing it makes it look night.
the hardest part of doing these was making the images look deep making the images have depth. to do so i was layering up the mono on a multiple layer and changing the transparency. and then it felt unachieved, i think its worked on the above picture well and maybe a couple more. but some havnt come out as well so i plan to print them out and work on the actual image by putting prints in them. maybe rubbings with chalk.
i went from the idea of having a concertina book to a saddle stitch book full of locations of leeds. but now i think thats a naff idea that is boring...i would pick that up in a shop. so my new idea is to go back to the concertina with the locations in but instead of having them flowing the images will be separted by elements of the ruined city, such as over grown plantation, rubbled houses, burnt out cars and some iconic things from the city like the uni clock and the owls.
i feel this idea is a much stronger idea i feel it shows exacly what iv been try to express about my author. i want the images to set the mood and state of the location as one, i want the location to be the most importent thing of it all, i want the different elements to show different situations of survival..urbon, woodland, cold, hot, night day. i want the owls and the iconic places to represent posestion. i want narative to my publication, so the image i did for my screen print will be added to the last page, so the vewier who has gone through this hell hole will see them and hopfully will understand that the characters are surviving in this situation and hopfully say i wouldnt want to be them or even feel sympathy
because im not doing a book and now im doing a concertina the pages wont flow through and i want the book to open up and make one long story...one long image. so im creating new pages that will make all the images blend im going to use the iconic places and thing from leeds to sepurate the city images and use them to blend them. some pages will just explain the land as it is in the book but others will be there to describe leeds like the owls or the clocks.
but because iv all ready got 6 drawings done i have to work on my placement as i go along...so i draw a picture then stick it in my indesign file then i have to draw a picture that will go between two and make them flow. ill have to do this though out, its not harder or compacted at all just another way of making it but if this was my idea from the get go i would have designed all the drawings in my sketch book before make the final images. pffft who wants an easy life anyway.
these are a couple of that iv been working on to make 2 images flow. a lot of work to make this happen but it will be worth it and hopfully will look good.
i took images from my sketchbooks and scanned them into photoshop and layered up the mono prints like i have done for all my other images
when i put the images to gether on in design i get to see the structure and i can use my imagination and see what the final thing will look like. at this stage its a lot of playing around finding what images work by sde of eatch other but like i said im working on the hole thing as i go along. the book will be approximately 20 pages long witch will work out at 2m long at eatch page been 20cm long when i have all the images in the place i want them and i feel i can make it murge and flow i will put the hole file into photoshop and added more textures that will run through out and add little more things to make the pages flow side by side.
below you can see the pages im working, left is the age i created to help images flow and right was the city scene iv all ready created you can clearly see the center step between eatch picture this is what i will be editing when i put the hole image through photoshop at the end. add more trees or urbon waste land.
because im trying to make the mages fit i cant really work from storyboards.its a procedure of trail and error, having an idea there and then and making the images fit and building layers of print up to make the image and to make them seem as one.
below finished image.
above is a closer look at the images that iv been working on, 3 images that iv made blend through to make one image i think its pretty convinsing. the only problem is the line running through the arena. thats a street light and from this size it stops the flow of the image. but on a biger scale its not there.
so far im really happy with the publication. this is my first concertina. getting the right measurement for the pages to fit the canvas size was challenging. im hapy with the practical work init. im also pleased that i got across the feelings and the points from mcarthys work that i chose to focus on. i think the ocation and the state of it sets the seen and is importent to the image.
final publication
im really pleased with my publication. im happy with the level of craft that has gone into it. even thought its still a little rough around the edges this is the most pro iv had something looking. useing mono print for textures and tones has been really exciting, this is the first time iv ever created an image using something other than the basic hand tools, such as pencil, paint digital and what have you.
the procedure of making this was exciting. it was nice to sit down with a flat ink image and make it have depth, and give it age and a tone by using only mono print texture. its been nice to be able to create a piece that has been so far away from my comfort zone.
the only down fall to this was the cast. when im creating something i always keep in mind a price...i think how much i would pay for something and use that as my target. so for e.g if im doing a painting of a frog, i would pay more than 35 quid for a painting of a frog... this publication cost me 16 quid to make. so if i was to sell this and get profit, i would have to sell it at £16.1p. i would pay that much for this. so next time im making a publication i will think other ways to create it at a high quality but much cheeper.
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