Inspiring image (dreams&imaginations)

 

 http://gabrielpaulo.tumblr.com/

 

http://designersof.com/post/12490350568/reach-surreal-in-lucid-dream-illustration-by 

http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2007/05/08/524932/PursueYourDream.jpg

 

http://marysoul.tumblr.com/post/11682439587/i-have-a-dream-by-norman-duenas 

 

My paper cut design of Alice In Wonderland

 

This is my new paper cut piece of my current project. I designed this fairy tale style illustration and cut it out with a cutter. Inspired by the Chinese folk patterns, I came up with this asian style trees, rabbit and floral patterns. In addition, I tried to make the bottom part symmetrical to express the traditional artistry of Asian folk art.

Lino cutting experience

 

 

what would I change?

The topic of this assignment was change – what would I most like to change about the world if I have the ability? After a conversation with the tutor, I had my final thoughts – I wanted to change human’s cruel behaviors of killing wild animals. I decided to design three posters with the fox as the theme. In which form should the fox be presented, a bloody corpse, a figure aimed at by a gun, or a lively posture?  I chose the last one, because I wanted to let the audience love them, show mercy to them and oppose the brutal and bloody killings by portraying their nature and beauty.

Final ideas

First of all, I drafted a few foxes on a sketchbook with a pencil in simple and smooth lines to highlight the beautiful gesture of foxes. Then I added some flowers as a background and determined the final draft after repeated modifications. After that, I copied those sketches on the lino with tracing papers and deepened them with a pencil. 

Making process

 After that, I copied those sketches on the lino with tracing papers and deepened them with a pencil. Then I started carving along the mark carefully with a pencil. After the caving was finished, I brought them to the printing room for printing. As there was only one machine in the printing room and there were a number of people queuing, each of whom wanted the lino to be produced in different thickness, so the machine was constantly adjusted and I could not accurately fix it at the appropriate pressure strength. Consequently, the result of the first test was not good – the color was uneven, the paint was either too much or too little, accompanied with other minor problems.

Making Process 2

There were not many people in the printing room when I did my second test, so I could adjust the paint and the printing machine little by little. I tried two colors – dark red and orange – on paper of different materials. This time I tried a lot of printing and most of which produced good results. Looking at the results of my own effort, I feel so happy.

The Manchester first cut compitition

I am so happy that my work was selected in the Manchester first cut compitition. The more exciting thing is my little hedgehog paper cut illustration will be realised as a greetings cards by stationer Roger La Borde.

The Cutting Process

After I came up with the final illustration, I started to cut. I took quite a while to cut all the small edges of the Christmas leaves and the little stings of the hedgehog. I separated the design in two parts. The upper part is to get rid of the rest part of paper and the bottom part is to cut out the drawings. I think this makes an nice eye contrast. I spent two days on cutting in total and I really enjoyed it. I was satisfied with the final outcome but I think I could have done better if had repare more.

Second Idea

 I showed my first design draft to my tutor and he advised me to get rid of the texts and maybe changed the cactus to another hedgehog as it might be confused. So that I created this design,The message of it is passing love, to me this is the design that warms and comforts. I hope the audiences could sense the love and warmth when they look at it.

Rough Ideas

Inspired by the video and images during the research, I came up with the first idea which is to design a fairy tale style illustration based on a love story between a hedgehog and a cactus.

The theme of this design is Passing Love, I drew some leaves and snows in the background reprsent the cold in winter, the little hedgehog is passing a glove to a cactus. In the middle I inserted some texts which is a sentence inspiring me.