Having done my foundation in Leeds, I had already learnt how to lino and monoprint in the same workshop. Despite this, though, I found today surprisingly useful. It gave me some ideas of how to make my gifs, some in a very process driven way and it also made me feel that this brief was maybe more about experimenting than creating some final polished gif (I want to have fun).
Lino
As shown in this picture, in lino you can print the same things over and over whilst changing the 'background colour'. I suppose you can do this digitally as well, but I just thought that this could maybe be an interesting way to make a gif - to have the same image but just with different flashing colours. I have also considered lino as a good way to create some nice textures for my gifs - especially for the bear, fox and cactus characters.
Monotype
I had never tried monotype before, because when I had seen other people do it the prints just looked messy and frankly a bit crap. But we were taught a new technique of putting baby powder on the ink before drawing - which meant that only the areas that you press down hard on picked it up. This made the final prints a lot cleaner and clearer. I experimented with drawing a couple of my characters, and building up a number of different layers of colour. I really like this process now and think that it could be really effective in making a gif. Also with these two particular characters I think the texture of drawing with a pencil to create these marks has worked really well.
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