Aspect to Aspect Inking

One of our tasks In unit 3 was to create a 'fake screenprint'. This was done by choosing 8 images of a subject based on your topic. Therefore I did Starbucks as my unit 3 was focused on food packaging. I chose a range of pictures, containing small details, close ups, the shop, coffee, beans etc so to capture a range of elements to ink which would hopefully prove to be successful.

I turned the images into black and white, so that 3 shades, grey, black and white showed up. This was so that I have three seperate layers to ink, so that when they are coloured in they will overlap just like a real screenprint.

I then printed this document off and put it on the lightbox with a piece of slight transparent paper over it. This ensures that I can see the original design so that I can colour the all the grey parts on one piece of paper, then get a new piece and do all the black parts etc. Therefore having three sheets representing different layers on the design. I then chose a thin paintbrush and black ink to begin colouring in each layer.

Here are the three inked layers of black, grey and white. I ensured that every bit was filled with ink on the design so that there were no blank spaces left when the three bits were scanned in.

I then scanned in the three pieces separately so I had the layers in photoshop. I then dragged the white and grey layer onto the black layer so to begin colouring them to produce a screen print effect. The three black layers represent the three different pieces of assitate you would have in a real screen print in which you put them all together to produce the full design but in different colours.

Here are the three layers together. As you can see they produce the full original design I started off with. I named each layer so that I did not get confused and created a background so to add some more colour into the design.

I coloured them in by using a brush tool. To do this i selected, for example, the grey layer and held 'CMD' over the rectangle displayed next to the layers name. This highlights the whole of that specific layer allowing you to choose a colour, e.g. blue, and colour over the entire document but only colouring that area which is selected. I left the white layer white and the black layer black but chose an ice blue for the grey layer and a dark purple for the background.

For this piece I did the same colouring technique but used a bright pink for the grey layer, black for the black, white for the white and grey for the background. I think these colours work really well together and did a couple of experiments with different colours as you can see from the three examples shown.