The drawing process :

The thought of this piece was mostly inspired by the surreal theme I had chosen in the first project however as I started to scheme the details and composition I found that I hadn’t originally thought to flip the image before sketching. Overall this piece was an idea to portray how it felt to be ‘used’ by people. The deteriorating aspect that I thought fitted well within the themes and the collision of the drawing upon inspiration and worlds collide project/s which was exactly the aim.

As for the process of printing and carving onto linoleum it was quite calming and therapeutic. I would have wished to use different ink other than just black to see if it would have changed the feel of the print but I’m pleased on how it ended up looking. The subject I chose looks pensive just like I wanted it to and the specs fill the space evenly giving it more depth.

The carving process :

The printing process :

First print test:

Second print :

Compared to the other test prints I’ve done, I realised Need to be adding more ink onto the Lino material to get more of an opaque print.

With its imperfections included, I’m really pleased with this outcome. I would have preferred it maybe without the small markings from where I hadn’t cut the Lino out properly and therefore the ink caught onto it, however I can appreciate how it makes the print have more of an authentic mood, which shows it’s really been done by hand rather than digitally processed.

Digitally edited piece:

I did experiment with scanning the piece in and manipulating it to fit my original thought, which was all polished and refined, and I do really like how it turned out, but there’s just something about printing the piece itself by hand and doing things manually that can never be compared to the digital format of doing art.

Inspiration resource for this print: