Here's the finished thing!!!!!!!!!!
Successes:
- In terms of layout and composition, I really wrestled with whether this poster should have this layout or the snow scene layout in my last blog post which had a massive amount of white-space. Now its all been done, I'm so glad I went with this one, although the white space may have worked given the context it was in, I think I've realised that a lot of white-space on a screen print isn't something I'm a fan of in my own work.
- The colour scheme has worked out so well! My only stipulation was that I wanted something with a blood red colour in it as this is so fundamental to the violent plot of Fargo, so Imogen chose this charcoal grey as the other colour and I think it looks ace, especially where you can see the texture of the screen coming through
- The grid style layout of the image makes it so easy to read, you almost read it like you would a passage of text, which I really like. I've also seen the value of adding text into a poster like this, although its something I wouldn't rush to do in my normal work I think as fan art its nice to see the classic Fargo style coming through in the font, it makes it really recognisable and immediate
- I think through all the visual language classes we've had I'm now starting to get to grips with what constitutes and pleasing picture, I say this because one thing I've considered which I never would have a few months ago was leaving a little border around the outer edges, I used to think this was wasting space but now I can see how effective this can be in making the objects on the page stand out and draw your line of sight into the middle
- As a whole this session made me more comfortable with the screen printing room and the process in general and now I can officially say that its something I'll be doing again! Also I used to think I couldn't do the kind of art which looks good screen-printed but now I realise that was completely false and not every piece of screen printed work has to look the exact same, I can figure out how to translate my personal voice through it like I do with any other material.
Failings:
- Some of our prints went a little bit wonky so unfortunately I didn't end up with the white border around the page that I'd hoped for, but then this was also partly due to the fact that me and Imogen were sharing a sheet of paper and a screen so they were never going to turn out perfect. They still look great in my opinion, just something to think about for next time!
- Me being the perfectionist I am, whilst we were pulling the prints I was trying to get the straightest registration possible as that's how I thought my design would look the best. Turns out we did quite well and I've ended up with nearly all perfectly aligned prints, however the few that turned out a bit overlapped, which I thought at the time I didn't like as much are actually my favourites. If I'd done a bit more experimentation with both outcomes in the print room I might have ended up with more of them but sadly I didn't think to
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