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Hello thread. I'm a dilettante when it comes to arts and crafts of any kind, but really dug a brief intro to linocut printmaking: (I had Alien on the brain and no, these are definitely not original drawings) so I think I'll dabble a bit. If anyone has tips for getting started, I'm all ears! Also: pixelbaron posted:Have spent about 2 years recreating a 400 year old magic trick originally printed in Venice. I am finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel: That is gorgeous!
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^ Hey look, I just used my block carving tools too! Wanted to make a wedding gift for friends and settled on a picture frame made of black palm and maple splines. Then figured it'd be dumb to give them an empty one, so why not make a print of the two of them and include it? I simply couldn't pull off a way to print their faces using any kind of tone techniques like hatching without making them look fantastically old, so I basically admitted defeat and settled on... contouring? I don't know what to call this, but it came out looking a bit comic book-style. Anyway:     I really need to work on my printing. The brayer-and-spoon technique sorta worked, but I really wish I could find a decent press for a price that won't make my eyes water.
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Oct 2, 2017 01:43
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Yup, you're right. I tried going the "simple" way and building one powered by a caulking gun, but the resulting print was terrible. I'm pretty confident I built it well enough, so either the gun I was using was somehow bad, or the plywood was warped as hell. Harbor Freight sells a thing that is almost there. I just need to figure out a good way to mount the plates (and pray that the pig iron their tools use doesn't fold like an accordion).
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Oct 2, 2017 04:08
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dupersaurus posted:Bottlejack press on hold due to new, more expensive medium Is that walnut? Because that would indeed be expensive!
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Nov 20, 2017 21:53
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dupersaurus posted:Back at the bench after a little soul searching break. Trying out some new (to me) Japanese papers, too. That's wonderful! Having only done lino I can't offer woodblock advice, so just wanted to say it really looks great. I need to go back to carving myself. Got fancy new tools and spent way more time building a box for them than using the things 
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Jul 26, 2018 23:29
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dupersaurus posted:
I honestly don't know whether saying "here's how other people do it" is cool in art, but... here's a couple of examples of clouds in printmaking I thought were cool: https://www.reddit.com/r/printmaking/comments/926m0c/orion_landing_blockprint/ https://www.reddit.com/r/printmaking/comments/8h7m9u/made_a_3_color_reduction_linocut_of_spacex_falcon/ But I like yours a lot!
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Sep 11, 2018 17:03
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Posting a really quick & dirty linocut proof in the hope it will keep me accountable to go back and make improvements: e: gently caress! Trabant fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Aug 19, 2019 |
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Aug 19, 2019 02:32
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My "OK, gently caress this, gently caress me, this is the best it'll get, I give up" print of the year: I think I did OK with the carving, I just could not get this one to print well.
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Nov 25, 2019 23:24
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Angrymog posted:Are you printing with a press, or by hand? The printing itself was a combination of doing it by hand (Speedball baren, wooden spoon) and/or a copy press I restored earlier this year. The press actually worked great, but I think I tried too many different things with this fucker at once: new ink, new paper, press + hand. Should've run a proper design of experiments to figure out the best settings. I might revisit it some day, or just find someone local to re-teach me the printing part of the puzzle. Thank you -- yours too!
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Nov 26, 2019 18:16
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Thanks! I'm proud of that one, and frankly surprised at how well it came out.
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Nov 26, 2019 20:44
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Raaaaarrr: It's a lino print! Could've been printed better! Still, I'll take it. Depicted is the 1964 version of Godzilla attacking Austin (TX), specifically the dirty sixth street area downtown. As I posted in another thread, I have zero idea why I wanted to make a print of that in particular, but... here we are.
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Jun 14, 2020 02:44
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Thanks! I'd be happy to do so, but need to be honest (mostly to myself) about two things: (1) I'm not exactly thrilled with the quality of the prints I've been getting, namely the uneven coverage. I doubt a kiddo would notice/care, but it does lead me to... (2) I don't think I'll do another round of prints for a week or two. If your son's still into Godzilla at that point, I'll definitely send you a print. Drop me a PM and I'll update you once I have something halfway decent ready to go.
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Jun 23, 2020 06:53
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Oh, I tried Wooden spoon, crappy Speedball baren, copy press, bone knife -- I've never been happy with the results. At this point I'm reasonably confident that my problem is inconsistent/uneven ink coverage more than anything. Next time around I'll try to keep to multiple thinner layers, since that's apparently what works better with Caligo safe wash inks.
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Jun 23, 2020 20:28
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Zoben posted:Album cover in progress Just amazing 
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Jun 29, 2020 18:58
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^ Between your posts here and in the SDS thread, I absolutely love and recognize your style  Not my design, just a linocut print reproduction of an anti-drug patch I saw online:  I wanted a print of it but it's apparently a one-of-one found object so I had to make my own version. Many hours later...
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Sep 7, 2020 20:57
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sigma 6 posted:Wow ... that's pretty... uh... dope?  Nice goblin! Or is it a troll? I'm not good with imaginary creature taxonomy 
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Sep 9, 2020 23:23
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Wanna go to that circus!
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Sep 12, 2020 21:22
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A progress shot of the next in my budding "Kaiju attacking Austin, TX" lino series: Also, I finally, sadly joined the club: this is the first time I drew blood while carving. 
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Sep 13, 2020 22:50
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Choda Dog posted:Pics I love your style! Makes me feel... warm, I think is the best way to put it. On the other end of the spectrum, my quick & dirty proof of Kong yelling at Austin from top of the Frost Bank tower:  Need to clean up several places, but much better than I was hoping for.
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Sep 15, 2020 02:28
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Zoben posted:Thanks! I post in like 3 - 4 threads for the most part, but I still come back and check to see if there are like....1-9 new posts if that Thanks! I think your art would absolutely work well in relief prints, although given how detailed/intricate it gets, it might be better suited for woodcut than lino. That's a whole 'nother level of skill vs. what I've ever attempted, though. I think someone like me who doesn't create art for a living can afford to be a dilettante and bounce from one hobby and craft to another. My corporate job doesn't care and I don't have to worry about taking time away from a more productive area of interest. So I end up doing exactly as you described: ooh linocut! / ooh woodworking! / ooh knifemaking! It just. goes. on. And I'm not qualified to say whether you pulled off a Toppi homage, but I can tell you created a wonderful piece!
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Sep 20, 2020 01:52
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Hell yeah! If you tend to draw more than anything, the Daily Drawings thread would probably also be a great place to hang out, and I'm pretty sure it's more active than this one. I'm horribly envious of how clean your work is, and the fact you got commissions really ought to tell you about how well it's perceived. As for printing on fabric, please do post if you figure it out. I have some mild interest in following the lino --> print --> vector --> t-shirt screen print path, but I wouldn't be opposed to block printing on tees instead. I just don't have any real confidence in my printing abilities. Or the space for it -- my printing station is a sliver of available kitchen counter
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Sep 23, 2020 07:12
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Will there be an inktober thread? I did that last year and enjoyed forcing myself to just draw something, no matter how simple, every day. I enjoy lurking in those threads but get the impression that this subforum has slowed down a whole bunch since, you know, Lowtax. The CC Discord (another place where I mostly lurk) might be the place where Inktober happens. The invite link is... Somewhere? If I can't find the post I'll link it myself later.
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Sep 24, 2020 03:44
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Another linocut print, this one based on the events/image seen here: As I said elsewhere, I grew up in ex-Yugoslavia and remember when "Death to fascism, freedom to the people" went from being a serious call/response to a joke about the communists. And yet here I am, living in the US in TYOOL 2020, and this poo poo is more relevant than it's been in 75 years. Think I'll go back to printing kaiju monsters attacking Austin, just needed to get this one out of me.
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Oct 7, 2020 07:57
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Thank you -- that was probably the fastest idea-to-print I've ever done. Don't know if it was due to the relative simplicity or the all-consuming feeling of dread 
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Oct 7, 2020 23:10
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Another in the "Kaiju attacking Austin" series which I originally started because ???? Calling it "Making my way downtown" 
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Oct 11, 2020 22:08
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 those are amazing!
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Oct 12, 2020 02:48
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Hell of a question -- wondering myself. I've had a bunch of people express interest in buying my Kaiju prints, but (a) talk is cheap, and (b) even if they're serious, I have no idea what is market-realistic. There's this thread, various formulas you can find online which use Material Costs + Time + Overhead to help you calculate your hourly rate, you can trawl Etsy for comparisons (taking into account location and medium), or going to artist groups on Facebook or Discord. If you find anything useful, let me know
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Oct 12, 2020 06:15
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I'm happy if my post helped, but you might be thinking of dog nougat and their fantastic crab circus prints? Having never posted in SA Mart, I really don't know what the process/rules are. Actually, dog nougat might be the right person to talk about pricing etc. As far as I know, they didn't start off with the idea of making these to sell, so it might be an interesting push vs. pull art sales discussion. Or I'm entirely wrong and talking gibberish
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Oct 14, 2020 15:56
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Most digitization attempts I've seen out there assume a decent scan to start with, so getting a large canvas into a computer... no idea how to go about that. In case you're looking to get a vector image, I'll quote myself from another thread and what worked for me with an ink print: Trabant posted:Anyway! I went down the same tablet/Adobe/etc. research path but realized I didn't want to spend hundreds of bucks, so I'm always on the lookout for alternatives. Inkscape is free and using its built-in functions might be the way to go: Trabant posted:I have mostly good news! That tutorial worked for my needs -- I scanned in a (badly overinked) proof I had nearby and followed along. The reason I say mostly good news is that it will almost certainly require trial and error, in addition to some prep of the image. Note that the below are my-dumb-rear end-trying-things-out steps rather than any kind of actual instruction.
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Oct 18, 2020 03:10
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Those would indeed make fantastic prints.
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Nov 9, 2020 04:57
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That's really wonderful stuff! Big fan of the way you did the landscapes.
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Nov 26, 2020 05:58
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Those are wonderful!
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Dec 19, 2020 02:54
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At the risk of overthinking this, it depends on what they'll let you do to their wall. Do they have any hardware already in place -- screws, hook, etc? For example, you can get something like one of these kits for not much money: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-Picture-Hanging-Kit-10-Piece-80021/301993354 but that assumes you will be driving a nail into drywall. What if they won't let you, or if it's a brick wall?
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Apr 29, 2021 23:31
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Ah, gotcha. Then a wire sounds like it should work (I've made/mounted plenty of frames). The superglue... I don't know, I personally wouldn't trust it, mostly because I'd think it needs a decent surface area between the board and the wire. My personal go-to for attaching the wire to the board would probably be something like those D-ring clips from the kit I linked. That assumes you're working with a thick enough board to allow for the screws though. If your board is too thin for screws but would allow small nails, maybe a sawtooth hanger to hang over a nail/screw in the wall? They're remarkably strong, at least in my experience:  ------------------------- Unrelated, a quick & dirty proof of a linocut (layer one of two). I tried to do some kind of shadow line between the dark and light areas of the wall, but it's too abrupt, too severe. I'll need to figure out how to create a smoother transition: 
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Apr 30, 2021 02:56
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Thanks! The shadow line is growing on me, although I still plan on softening it a bit somehow.
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Apr 30, 2021 16:03
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gently caress yeah, both of those kick rear end. Lino proof, part 2/2, which hopefully explains what I was going for with this whole thing:  And since I'm apparently only capable of printing over the weekends, hopefully I'll have a real-deal one in a week.
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May 3, 2021 03:33
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Huh! Yeah, a definite similarity in lettering style: For what it's worth, that wasn't the inspiration but Edgar Allan Poe definitely was.
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May 3, 2021 04:52
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My first proof was better than my "actual" print  I don't think I like layer-on-layer printing either, I must not have let the black dry enough (although the first layer dried 2 weeks so who the hell knows). Oh well. I'll print it again eventually, I lie to myself.
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Jun 14, 2021 03:37
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silicone thrills posted:Its really good but your red is too transparent. Maybe try sliding some black pigment or white pigment in there. I've tried the red I think you have there and had the same issues. Hmm, good observation. This is a Cranfield Caligo Safewash "process red" and I figured it'd be as opaque as it gets. I'll experiment with it next time around. Keetron posted:How about if I pay you for a second print and then you send it to me? There is already a bunch of goon art up on the walls, this will fit in nicely. That's very kind -- thank you! Despite being internet strangers I like goons so I'm happy to just send you one free of charge. You can DM me the address. The downside is it'll probably be at least a few weeks before my next attempt so... it might take a minute. sigma 6 posted:The F is too hard to read but the eyes make it. Really didn't notice them at first. Ha! I actually thought I was overdoing it with the eyes, so I'm glad to hear that. There's a third Easter egg / clue in there, but that one probably is a little too hard to spot.
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Jun 14, 2021 15:40
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Holy moly
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Jul 7, 2021 04:31
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