After the Lino Cuts

After reflecting on the lino cuts, I returned to my sketchbook to draw some more ideas for the project. I decided to keep the hair motif, but went back and looked at more ideas for the 'concrete jungle' element. This resulted in me making some hair studies, as I thought that the form of the hair could be improved upon in the previous design. I really enjoyed this, and it resulted in a greater understand of how hair acts, and how to make the hair look more realistic. I then integrated the concrete jungle aspect by wrapping the hair around buildings, using my reference photos that I'd taken for the hair wrapped around the stair banister.

I much prefer these designs to the one I printed. Because I did studies of both buildings and hair, both of these elements look much better than my drawings in the previous printed design. Also I think the hair wrapped around skyscrapers is a much more interesting concept, that I could play with and develop further. This is because the two subjects are so different; buildings are made of concrete so they are very hard and uniform, compared to hair which is softer and has a more free form. Putting these two juxtaposing elements together is visually interesting.

This point was the end of When Worlds Collide, as we moved on to the next project. I am quite unhappy with the work I produced for this project, but overall the project was very useful. The majority of the project was about learning how to do screen and lino printing, so it was useful in exploring these new processes. Because I focused on that, the work I produced suffered for it. I came up with some designs that I really liked at the end of the project, so I plan to return to it to spend some more time developing these designs. Perhaps I will translate them back into prints of some form. The project wasn't a failure though, as I learnt some new methods of working, which I can take into future projects.