One Week Book Development

Preparation for Screen Printing 

Me and Megan had a lot of fun drawing out the final sheet for us to screen print. I am a bit nervous and excited to see if it is going to work as it is a new process for me to try out. 

We all had to work pretty quickly as our screen printing slot is tomorrow, so that only really gave us a day to get it all sorted. I am very proud of our group for the work we have done in the little time we had. Go team!

The Story/Narrative

• Our story ended up being an amalgamation of things that happened during our research day.
• Meeting Luna the puppy and betting on a race in the Bookies became one story about a wishful dog who dreams about becoming a racing greyhound!

Things I enjoyed

• Textures of the china marker pencil on the surface of the coda trace paper.
• Collaborating everyone's ideas into one thing we could be proud of together.
• Thinking about possible a storyline for our book, our imagination ran wild.

Challenges so far

• Being used to working independently in my own practice, it was a challenge at first to take everyone else's ideas on board and distinguish which would work. This was difficult as aesthetically we all have our own subjective viewpoints. We separated the pages into tasks for each of us individually. This way we could all give an input but stick to the particular story we came up with as a group.
• Working with imagery made up of shapes seemed to be the most effective in separating the two colours onto the paper. To start with, we drew our images with two different colours of pen on one piece of paper.
• It was difficult at first to simplify our initial imagery in a way that would work for a screen print.

Jon McNaught

https://www.tumblr.com/blog_auth/drawnblog

Whilst designing our character of 'Luna' the dog, our group decided it would be a good idea to get some inspiration on simple characterisation relevant to screen-print from the library. We ended up looking at Jon McNaught's work to see how simple shapes can be effective in creating expression and sequence in a frame which was very helpful to our overall process.