Friday, 28 April 2017

Richard Hawley - Disgraceland

Guess who kind of forgot about this brief... it was me!


I did the 'proposal' for this in about two days. In that two days I realised I completely forgot everything I'd ever known about creating an image for screenprint... because I haven't screenprinted in a year, haha whoops. 

I basically had one idea and I was gonna roll with it, I realise it's meant to be like 'graceland' but I was getting 'wasteland' vibes - hence the muted - yellowey- deserted sandy look to the entire image. When I sketched it out I was just thinking of the sign-post and a pathway, as I was doing this I realised I could wind the pathway into the vague shape of a guitar - sort of in keeping with other posters made for Hawley. 

I realised I neeeded to do halftones so I could get some different shades of yellow throughout the image and swiftly realised I had no fucking clue what I was doing, ended up going through my blog from the past few years going through all the screenprinting notes I had ever made. Which helped to a degree, this is still a pretty janky halftone though. 

I tried to make the image mainly digitally because I thought that this would be an quicker, simpler way of doing it, I however was incredibly wrong.

I think I got fixated on the fact that this had to be an image made for screenprint so I spent ages painstakingly making this in separate colours and halftones when I should have made an image and found a way of ADAPTING that into a 3 colour screenprint.

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