Production: Part 5 - Ex 4 Printing

For this exercise I looked through the entire course and picked a view illustrations to use for the a narritve. Picking 16 images from my digital portfolio I didn't really have a specific theme in mind so I brainstrormed different sequences, eg... food into puzzles and building into animals into human into characters. Alphabetical and colour scheme....
 

Next I played around with deciding what paper types I think would suit the image and then when drawing a mini flatplan wrote why certain pictures would look best on certain papers. The flatplan is also structured in a not so typical booklet way more like a foadable path.

These are all of the types of papers I chose to use.

Sketchbook paper (grey and beige) 

Lined paper

Foil paper

Thick paper

Card (black and white)

paper sample pieces from a paper company

Book paper

Newspaper

Tracing paper

Now while most of the printing worked there were a few not so successful

First of all the foil paper was far to thick to even go through the printer which was a shame, black ink would have looked so bold. The tracing paper was far to thin even though I celloptaped 4 pieces together, it did not end well as teh printer jamed.

These are the results for the other illustrations however

These first 3 illustrations I printed on the sample paper for Mixam a paper printing company, I chose  two lined drawings with minimal colours like the dog and swordfish which were just black outlines more or less for simplicity. I also chose to use my scanned in pencil drawings of ingredients to see how printing would work on the thinner less treated sampel piece. The colours for all didn't fully develope most likely becasue of the coating and thickness of the samples and it was hard to chose the right printing size for the size of the cards as the standard was for an a4 so some of the illsutrations are cut off. The dog illustration turned out the best I think, still faded because of the gloss coating but i like the effect that its not so intense with the original black lines in the deisgn.

I picked card for this cow image because I thought it would fit the clean design by giving the ink a stable base to print on. There is no bleeding or wet ink. Because the colour of the background is white to it stands out.

This was anotehr attempt at the same cow image on another paper sample but as you can see the ink didnt stick at all, you cannot see any of the image.

For this image of a dog (variation of the first dog image above) I used black card in the hopes that something would show up and in it turned out that you cant actually see anyhting until you angle in a certain light when you can reveal a shadow of the image.

I used a sketchbook page for this image becasue of how full and detailed the picture is I thought it's best to use a solid base so the colours come out and that no details are missing. This wasn't very experimental in terms of different paper types but I still think because of the whiteness of the page its coloured well.

Similar to the digital dog drawing where I used two styles I printed another version of the swordfish logo with more colour and used recycled off white paper. It's nothing special but I like how the ink prints on this paper it absorbs the ink well.

I used the recycled paper for this character too, I wanted to see if the blue would work on the off white background and I like the slightly faded colours where the 'blacks' are very black.

I used a white piece of a4 card for this image because I wanted to see the colours and the details of each of the animals faces together. its nice and clear and the colours come out well

I used a thick sketchbook page cut off for this illustrsation and for some reason the printer swallowed the paper diagonally so the image printed like this which suprsingly looks cool and it kinda a fits with the way the text is offset also.

I used a beige piece of skecthbook paper for this character drawings becase naturally the background is sandy so the beige I thought would merge perfectly, I was expecting the print to be a bit darker then it is. You can still see everything but it;s not as bold as I like and I think its purely because the paper isn't white.

I used a book page for this portrait because the word for the design was as a result of imagining what this character would look like after reading a description from a piece fo text. Considering the portait is from a book or text using a book page to print on seemed fitting. The print itself isn't as developed as I expected but it like how myserious the postioning of the eyes are between the paragraphs it's like there a character hidden in the page.

For this sunflower image I decided to try out a printing method of using pastel to colour in the size of the image on some tracing paper before laying it over a page and drawing with soem pressure with a pencil to trace the outline of the print off of the sunflower so when the pieces of papers are removed the outline of the traced image is revealed.

 

 

I printed this character on lined paper simply because ther was already lines on the image to help with proportions. I liek the way the ink printed becasue I kind of looks like with it's drawn style that it was drawn straight omn the page.

I used a envelope for these wolves because the gritty style and the way theyr'e scruffly coloured went well with the bittiness of the envelope itself, some of the image did get cut off cause the shape wasn't the best for the printer but the style looks as though it was done in watercolour rather than digitally.

Newspaper was another paper type I tried, I used a page with more writing on then image so the design would come through clearer than if it was an image already there. I like the transaprency for the image though on the page because the text can still be rad so its like the pictrue is behind the content on the page.

Finally this logo I printed on anotehr piece of white sketchbook paper because I wanted a clean image. I think it looks professional and the colours contrast with the white nicely. Its a satisfying outcome.

 

After this part of the task I now had to decide how I was going to construct them together. I didnt want to create a conventional booklet but more of a radom path of images stringed together to be folded.

In doing so I actually found it quite difficult fitting each image into a folding path becasue they differed so much in size. I opted for a whole new approach by finding the screw used to hold the sample papers together. I hole punched teh corners as evenly as I could and twisted off the side of the screw and in colour order slotted all of my images onto it so they could be spun and opened like a 360 fan.

I think with the screw being generally loose the images are easy to access and reveal.

This was me just putting the images in any order just so the idea worked and fanned out so all images can be fully seen.

This is the set of images all tucked like a booklet.

This is the final result put in colour order paper and image wise. I think choosing a colour theme helps the narritive flow even consdering that most of teh images in that order have no relation.

This is the littel scre which head could be twisted off and twisted back on to secure the paper.