illustration 1: study task 3

next task! to find some illustrators who use the print process. i already have some in mind too!

hel covell 

hel covell is one of my favourite ever illustrators. there's something about her work that is just so naive and beautiful. here she is using risograph printing which we are not doing but i just really wanting to include her in and i think researching about risograph printing might be interesting too. i chose these two pieces because they are two of my favourite. they are both so strikingly different. the first is really simple and most likely only took one print and it was done, one colour, one stock. really easy. the second one (the rabbit) i think was done with risograph and scanned in to add different block colours and elements to it. so you can see she is using the digital printing method of scanning in your prints. although the rabbit print is technically three colours, i still think it's a good example of how to effectively use colour and contrast.

richelle bergen

the next artist that i have recently discovered is richelle bergen. she works mostly with lino printing and her results are beautiful! she does quite simple colour palettes which is perfect for this brief as we are doing the same. the thing that i like about her lino print is that they look so perfect. it's crazy to think that she has cut out all these little sections and it's so interesting to me how it's possible. i would love to try and get this perfect effect, however i also do really like when lino prints have texture because it makes them look printed rather than just digitally printed. 

i think its interesting her use of the red watering can and the black flowers, most likely two seperate lino prints, i might play around with doing this as we are allowed to use two colours so adding this image in really gave me some ideas.


















loulou and tummie

 loulou and tummie are a duo of illustrators who work together to create these graphic like designs. this top one is a screenprint and the bottom one is a risograph print. i really love this screenprint and think it's a perfect example because of the two colours they have chosen. you can see they have chosen blue and red, and then overlapped the colours to create this brown colour. this is exactly the example i was looking for because it uses the two colour boundary and pushes it as much as it can. i also really like the graphic nature of their prints, they look digital, but are handmade. i would really like to try and dabble in this style because my style is always so traditional and sketchy/inky, it might be fun to try and do something like this. I also think their compositions are really interesting. The pages are busy and there is so much to look at with different things happening. the screenprint seems to be a little comic strip that goes from left to right and i think this is such an interesting way to do this! having no borders really makes you think it's just a print and when you properly look, you realize there is a story.