Out of the three studio briefs, this one was the longest and
took the most development for me. All things considered, I’m relatively happy
with the final outcome. I think I was maybe a bit too ambitious with what I
wanted to achieve with this brief but I’m pleased with the amount of work I’ve
done.
I decided from the beginning that I wanted to make a
publication based off George Orwell’s book Down and Out in Paris and London. I
was undecided on whether to make it a concertina or a normal book, so for the
majority of the project I just focused on producing the images.
I spent a while storyboarding and rereading extracts of the
book, and eventually decided to pick certain experiences that Orwell had in
Paris to illustrate. All the events I chose are in the book in chronological
order because I wanted there to be a loose narrative to the book.
I chose to use lino print for the most part in this project
because I really enjoyed it for the previous studio brief and wanted to push
this further. I have also combined print processes in the past and really
enjoyed the results so I decided to do the same for this project and use
monoprint as the second colour in my prints.
Overall, I’m really pleased with the linocuts themselves and
I think I developed them quite effectively in my sketchbook before cutting and
printing the linos. However, I think as a result of this I didn’t develop or
consider the monoprints as much as I could have. I didn’t work with two colours
throughout my storyboarding and I think this has let down the final images a
bit because it doesn’t look as well considered as it could have done. This is
something I need to work on for future projects.
Considering this though, I’m pleased with the outcome for
this project. I think my skills with lino cutting have improved a lot in this
project, and I enjoyed all the different steps in creating the finished book –
lino and monoprinting, using photoshop to create the finished images, using
Indesign and then bookbinding everything together. I’m especially pleased that
I managed to incorporate the book binding into this project because I think it
adds an extra level of craftsmanship to my work.
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