Printing reflection
I realised I had thought the poster through much more and had much more effort into planning and making than I normally do for a short brief - especially visual language. I made sure there were no rough edges (unusual for me). For a long time I have been thinking my work has been a bit slap-dash. This process made me realise I need to work like I'm planning a print more often - and maybe do more printing. The confines of print make me work much more carefully - but there things I can still try and mess up if I want to (like registering). On that note, I am a big fan of wonky registers and did a few badly registered prints.
But yeah, I love printing and how many you churn out so fast. I definitely need to use it MUCH more.
Picture reflection
The half tones didn't work very well - the (grain?) size wasn't big enough I think. also some of the black wasn't full black- so I got fuzzy blacks and black halftones bits. With the final prints I realised I could have used over laying of colour much more- for a third colour. This may have been easier than half-tones.
In the end, its probably ok - not visually super adventurous but thats ok. At the time I thought it had come out much better than expected. - looking now I definitely feel the use of colour and process could have used better - by thinking harder about layering. There is big use of big chunks of colour- it looks a bit like a paper stencil print with the simple shapes- looks this way partly due to half tone probs.
The actual colours used mattered much less than I thought. I was really struggling to think which to use but we did 2 different colours and I both look fine.
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| Did the colours again - this one worked much better on Simon's but I can't really decide which of the 2 colours I prefer on me own. |
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| Colours 1 feat. naughty thumb mark (oh well the registering was well off anyway) |
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