Cynthia Kingsley-Smith
Illustration



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Lino Designs + Silkscreening, Outcomes!


This week: 

As I set myself a very short turnaround time on this project, I ensured that I pushed towards a final outcome ASAP as long as I felt like I was hitting out some of my goals I set prior to beginning development - and while I wasn’t particularly happy with some of the physical results, I definitely achieved a well considered, fast turnaround concept that worked to my strengths as an illustrator, was rooted well within my protest art theme and had appropriate commercial applicaiton considerations. 

I wanted to start with a nice simple design that was highly symbolic of peace, so I quickly decided on an olive branch. My initial plan was to do an additional lino of a dove to go alongside it, but I found that the linocut of the branch was high quality and understandable at a glance to the viewer. This is important to the overall aims of protest art - my design must be easy to understand AND easy to replice, so I decided to leave the linocuts here.



I then scanned this design digitally and added a clean boarder and textured background. I was really pleased with this result as it made my design “pop”



Finally, as this design was sparse on its own, and a bit too interpretable, I decided to add some simple text to the top and bottom of the design. 




I created all of these assets in seperate photoshop files as my next step was to burn them onto a screen and print them!





metal... I really like this rustic / dripping text effect here caused by an unstable screen. I may try and intentionally replicate this in the future. 








I love how the orange is coming through the spaces in the texture surrounding the linocut!



This is ultimately where i landed with all of my design elements combined. Overall, I think that

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