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Say NO to njs :)

Enjoying the linocuts.I like trying to figure out what has to be cut and what has to be left (if you know what I mean)

Yeah, that's the riddle! I've been working out how to get the different cuts to register together on paper - not easy! O went from single colour prints straight to a 4 colour effort and I'm well chuffed that it worked!

That looks well good!

Now if I had enough money to afford art...

I wonder if, for reductive cuts, you could notch up some sort of registration table. A bit of wood, with a couple of dowels at the top. Then you could drill corresponding holes in the lino, so it always registers perfectly?

I'm kind of thinking in terms of screen printing, which is what if used to - not sure if you can apply the same principles!

Bought a box of copic markers... I really like them and even better: They got wee man into drawing.

He's been busy tracing in the lightbox and colouring in transformers.

Kids grade markers don't do it for him... Well I can understand as so-so art materials put me off too.

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I've rigged up a registration system, using metal pins/ pegs and a slim cardboard angle to slide each linocut into for each colour. The card holds each cut in place & the pins ensure the paper can be replaced exactly each time. Seems to work!

Brill - I love a diy solution to things like this. My screen printing set up is a bit like that - I've just rigged it up in a way that works for me.

Simple solutions are the most satisfying. That's why I do linocut - no tech, just a very old craft that relies on skill & creativity. Introduce complexity and the pleasure of simplicity dies.

Ha, wow. Expensive colouring! Wonder if he'd listen to the idea of a slow build in colour and long even overlapping strokes.

My 16 month old has just discovered drawing. Everything is a canvas...

Yes please to etsy link

[https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/525845308/boba-fett-linocut]

This should link to the shop - the price does reflect the effort put in and materials used. Happy shopping!

I'll give him tips once he's open to them...right now just happy he's enthousiastic as he didn't draw in earlier years :)

Oh oh... you have new wallpaper designs every day now? :)

Not sure where to post this as kind of falls into Photography but some of my work is being exhibited at the Chelsea Town Hall this weekend if you are in town and really bored. 😎

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They look fantastic!

V kind. 😎

This is the event if any interest...

http://parallaxaf.co/

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I dun another stupid weird tree drawing. Mainly because drawing isometric pub interiors for (((large faceless media corporation))) was starting to make my eyes twitch.

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Colouring away. I like copic markers, colour without the faff if mixing paint and very portable :)

They are not light proof but that doesn't matter for my purposes.

Due to a script change I need to redraw the last page (yay...) of the 7 pages for this, but that's now done.

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Looking good! I'd love to have a crack at something narrative, like a comic, but I'm shit at people :-)

I'm doing a book jacket at the moment, which is really fun and something I want to get more into, in terms of paid work. This is a little guy in a boat that's on the cutting room floor because I forgot what a kayak was.

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Maybe I'm shit at people too :p

Cool yep book covers will work well with your abstract style I think. Pick a nice font and voila :)

This is a fan magazine so only get paid for materials. But learning a lot as it's my first comic, so not all bad.

A mate of mine did this kind of self-directed course on drawing narratives. It had loads of excercises and the stuff he produced from it looked really interesting. I keep forgetting to ask him what it was called as I'd like to give it a pop.

I should be better at that sort of things as I draw lots of storyboards as part of my job (children's book design)!

Nice kids books are fun I imagine :)

Away from the dark of adult life.

Aaaand finally done. Phew.

Going to letterers, the printed fanzine due out for sale end of the month :)

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Niiiiiiice! Looks like a lot of hard work has gone into that. I think I would have flaked after about the 3rd cell and found something easier to do :-)

I think I should sell it as "mindful colouring"...it's in these days :P

It takes 3 hours a page on A5... pro artists need a day for drawing, a day for full colour and a few hours for inking. It really does take that long!

And that's why many comics use few tones (that and in the past the printers couldn't hack it, it was too costly etc...) though some euro published comics like the Metabarons are mad work.