Creative Practice 2

  During my screen printing I also decided to print on textured paper which I wanted to be my cover. I only made one unfortunately. So, when i realised the colour looked muddier than I imagined I knew I had to keep the title like that.  I then took some board and begin to glue and fold the paper on top. This was to make it look professional. Here's a few photos showing the process.  I did the same process with orange and white too. However, I decided that I wouldn't use the white as it looked to plain. 

In preparation for the screen printing, I needed to turn all of my coloured illustrations black and separate each colour per screen so there wasn't any confusion.  The first photo is showing the green illustrations. This was the colour that would be used a lot, so would need the most screens.  Orange;  Black;  Black is the colour I need to use first. Then orange and then green.  Here's what they looked like printed off. I did make a few changes so that the screens would fit more of my illustrations on. However, I still made sure the green and the orange were separate.  Here's a photo of just the black finished. At this point, I knew my illustrations would look good screen printed. This was because of the sharp lines that were created.  Here's a couple of photos of orange and black together.  Here's green. I did encounter a few issues with the green. The green ink mixed with orange turned the colour black. So, I decided I need to use a posca pen to...

  First, I had to trace my illustrations I created of the audience. And turn them into vectors. The tracing needed to be 0.03mm in stroke. And I made the illustrations red so the laser cutter knows where to cut.  As you can tell, for paper the laser stroke needs to be incredibly thin. When taking the paper out of the laser cutter, I realised that some line were too close together which made some of the figures flimsy.  Here's some photos showing the process with the laser cutter:  Final Outcome of the audience I think a few of these could be too big. However, overall they fit in a sequence together. I enjoyed using this process as the lines are sharp and so much better than if I tried doing it with a scalpel. All that needs to be done now is the screen printing and attaching these together. 

In this first image you can see that I have made 4 duplicates of my final concertina design. I wanted at least 4 so that I could print on all of them and seem which one has the best outcome. As I was creating them I realised it was hard to fold on the pages that had multiple layers so a few of these came out not as neat as they could have.  As you can see I made sure to hide the extra layer of card. This was done by the edge of the paper exactly where the fold would be. Making all 4 of these was an incredibly long process but I am glad I done multiple as now I more room for experimentation.    This is the title I have designed for the front cover. I plan on doing the same on the back cover. but the opposite way round.  I also did it in a brighter green, however it could look too bright. 

  For my final piece I want the cover of this design to start off orange and the back cover to be green. On the orange, I want the title to be in green too. I have decided the title will be 'Turning Green' or 'Feeling Green'.   I then started to experiment with how high up I wanted the shadows of the audience in the foldout. At first I tried 3cm high but that would be too small for the surrounding areas. I then tried 5cm which would be slightly too high and would cover the statues in the middle of the page. Then for the final size I decided on 4cm so that the audience will never overlap the statues too much.  In this photo and the previous photo, you can see where the paper overlaps when two section are put together. In the final design, I will glue a piece of the card over the top to cover this and make it more neat.   In this photo, you can see I'm experimenting with the size of the hinge for the black paper to be attached. As you can see, the card is cut...

  Here's my development of the story. I have made the statues more detailed with line work. As well as this I have also made sure the audience clearly look interested towards both statues. As you can see below the completed image there is the different colours divided ready for the screen printing. I have decided that the orange, black and green will be ink instead of paper.  But the people will be laser cut.  Heres the next segment of the story. As you can the audience are blocking out the statues and I am not sure whether this looks too messy.  In this image, the crowd isn't distracting. It is clear what they are representing.  The crowd in this segment do look like they are blocking the view of the statues, so when I further develop this I will bring the statues higher up.  The people look fine in this segment however, for continuity I will have to move the statues up as well.  Again, this segment looks fine. But to solve the problem for a few I wil...