Cynthia Kingsley-Smith
Illustration




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    → Skills Development
        →  Prelude: Summer Project
       →  RP1 _ Learning Plan
       →  RP2 _ Reflective Diagrams
       →  RP3 _ Inputs and Outputs
       →  RP4 _ Rich Pictures
       →  RP5 _ Design Philosophies
       →  WEEKLY 1: PEACHES.
       →  WEEKLY 2: TYPESETTING
       →  WEEKLY 3//4: RESEARCH
       →  WEEKLY 5//6: WOODCUT
       →  Bonus: Digital Thumbnailing Technique
       →  WEEKLY 7: GEL and FABRICS
       →  Bonus: Linocut Expansion.
       →  Final Reflections  
    → Creative Conscience Brief
        → Hope is an Act of Rebellion: Overview
       → Research
       → Developments 1
       → Developments 2 
       → Outcome and Reflections         
    → Responsive Printmaking
        → Placeholder
   → Cheltenham Illustration Awards
        → Placeholder


Digital Thumbnailing

An aim set out at the start of this module was to improve my ability to utilise digital tools (such as Photoshop) as part of my thumbnailing process rather than ONLY in the developments / clean-up towards outcome phase. As an illustrator who wants to work with printmaking, it can be difficult to imagine how certain ideas will manifest as prints are always unique because certain colour cominations or layout decisions or textures on each element may not combine well during the actual printing process and damage my perception of a concept. To solve this, I have attempted to thumbnail most of my ideas with simple Photoshop tools. This page details a few different examples: 



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