Spider and the Dark Arches
- I think the finished book has an ambiguous narrative, yet this adds to the haunting and unsettling nature of the story that we decided to tell…
- It was hard to make the images work together to form a coherent narrative as well as work collectively within a book because we all have such different styles. I think it is important though that we did not sacrifice this and I like how all our work is identifiable as our own.
- Personally I found this brief quite difficult. I enjoyed working as a group, however it was definitely more difficult to get things done and I found it quite unnerving not having total control over the work I was producing.
- I also found the theme of our book quite difficult - I do not often seek to create work that is dark and would not really choose to write or illustrate a haunted story. On the other hand it was good for me to work outside my comfort zone and diversify the type of images I make…
- In terms of my own finished images I messed up by using a sharpie, meaning that parts of my images were poorly exposed. I think on the first image it actually works quite well, adding this interesting texture and movement, but on the second image it meant that it was very light in colour and the shapes were not as defined as I would have liked.
- Overall I am rather disappointed with the final result of my images. I have learnt now to not use a sharpie if I want block colour! I also feel that we could have done a lot more with the screen printing process - e.g. overlapping colours to create a 3rd colour or different tone.
- In terms of screen printing I have used this process before, but only with positives printed from photoshop so it was interesting to learn about all the different types of textures you can use and how different media looks when printed. Screen-printing is something that I really enjoy as a process as well, so I am really glad that we are now inducted and will definitely be using this to create images a lot more in the future.
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