Copy - John Kenn

To start with I found a nice piece of artwork created by Don Kenn. Once I’d found an appropriate, yet somewhat difficult piece of work he’d created I started to sketch out the main parts of the image into my sketchbook.

Once the sketching process was complete I began using a dip pen and some black Indian ink to fill in the gaps. Starting with the fence in the bottom of my image I started to sketch and draw the wood texture with the dip pen. This due to the fact I’d only just started was extremely difficult and It took me a few hours to completely figure out how to work the dip pen properly without spilling ink all over my work. Once the fence was half completed I started on the boy which is situated in front of the fence. Working with the different saturations of dark throughout the image, I had to re-do the lines on the boy’s hair to make it more defined and stand out against the fence background.

Once I’d finished the fence I started on the ‘ghouls’ or ‘monsters’ floating behind the fence looking at the boy. These was generally harder to illustrate than the boy and the fence was due to their intricate nature.

 After the ‘ghouls’ were done I moved onto the background. Although this caused some trouble, I ended up accidentally dropping in over the existing work whilst trying to do the gradient background

Once all the inking was done, I scanned the final piece into my laptop. Moving the picture into Photoshop, I started to changed the levels of the photo and then add a orange filter over the top of the image. This initially gave my copy the feel that it had been created on a post-it-note, like the original had.

This is my final piece next to the original. The original is on the left and my copy is on the right.

Case Study

Cyanotype Experiment Advancement

As an experiment I decided to create a cyanotype. I had previous created a cyanotype as my first experiment, and although this worked well I wanted to create a second one with more elements added into the design of my original Photoshop document. Below you can see the update version of my Photoshop document, in the first attempt I did not add a background image to my other images, but in this version I did, I aimed for this to give a more 'twisted' and 'creepy' feel to my work.

I started by printing out my Photoshop document and taking it to be printed onto a special type of paper called acetate. This removed all colour apart from the black sections of my image. After I'd printed this version onto acetate, I then placed this piece of material above a painted piece of paper and placed it under a light box for over an hour. This printed the design onto the paper, although it was inverted. I then ran the piece of paper under cold water once it was complete and allowed it to dry.

This was the outcome of my experiment advancements. As you can see the background imagery suits the style of the images much more than the previous cyanotype I created.

Cyanotype Experiment.

As an experiment I decided to create a cyanotype. This was my first attempt creating an cyanotype so I decided to add subject matter photos onto a Photoshop document and then see how it would turn out.

I started by printing out my Photoshop document and taking it to be printed onto a special type of paper called acetate. This removed all colour apart from the black sections of my image. After I'd printed this version onto acetate, I then placed this piece of material above a painted piece of paper and placed it under a light box for over an hour. This printed the design onto the paper, although it was inverted. I then ran the piece of paper under cold water once it was complete and allowed it to dry.

This was final outcome.

Further Drafting / Refinement

Below are the final drafts for my lyric book. These have had the final refinements before it comes to making my final thing. These refinements included firstly making my sketches more detailed, this allowed me to experiment more with the sizes of my drawings.

Back and Front Cover

 First DPS

 Second DPS

Developed Drafting - Double Page Spread

Below are my developing drafts for my lyric book. These have had the more detail refinements than my scamps. These designs have been narrowed down into two design, and these designs are the ones which have been developed more. From these design I will be choosing a final design and re-drawing it in more detail, but also making some changes to match the stylized design I'm aiming for.

Count Bodies Like Sheep

Ten Thousand Fists

Youth Of The Nation

Dance With The Devil

Developed Drafting - Front Cover

Below are my developing front cover drafts for my lyric book. These have had the more detail refinements than my scamps. These designs have been narrowed down from my scamp collection into two design, and the designs shown below are the ones which have been developed more. From these design I will be choosing a final design and re-drawing it in more detail, but also making some changes to match the stylized design I'm aiming for.