Geek Table - Brief 3 - Alter Ego Prints

Following on from my experiments using the lino, the only brief that I can really get down for now with the lino that I have is my alter ego one as the 'na's will work out to be pretty small. I have decided also that due to the expense of the lino and what not that I will reduce the size of the finished prints to A4. This is me being more realistic with what I can achieve with this additional brief with the time ticking on.

Here's some photos of the process of these prints...

I used a scalpel to guide me with where on the lino I needed to carve away, as well as to help me achieve a lot straighter edged for the type.

In total, I made 5 prints for this brief. I began with using just the silver ink, and then started experimenting a bit with adding white and black to the mix. Each one is slightly different to each other. Here are the 5 that I made.

I particularly like the ones where the 'na's look layered up over each other. As I did more with the 'na' pieces of lino (I did two), they became less and less crisp prints. The last one looks naff - definitely lesson learnt. Although considering the amount of times they were inked up and used it's not really surprising. Out of all of these 5, I like the second print the best and will use this one to represent and be the outcome for this brief (it will also be what goes into the GT publication to represent me).

In preparation for submissing the print to be used in the publication, I scanned it in and slightly played around with the levels on the image - this finished off the print nicely and I really like how it has turned out.