RELIEF PRINTING!!! *screaming excitingly*

I am shifting a little bit from a timeline of this lovely term we just finished, but as I mentioned in the post below this one, I am hangovered and I just feel like presenting my lovely relief print works right now. 

So! 

I am really, really, really glad that I wasn't lazy this term as I was in the first year of my amazing Illustration course and joined the workshops of relief printing with Simon - cause possibly, the prints I made are the only thing I ever liked in my oeuvre. 

It went too easy - I've chosen a drawing scribbled with a fineliner on a train from Peckham to Streatham Common, carved it happily in a lino and boom! I have 5 really nice prints. 

I wish it could work like that every time - simply, I created absent-mindedly some of the quite cheaply looking eye-candies of mine and the process of relief printing just gave it another, much more sensitive and diverse look, almost blessed this worthless doodle, I would say so!

This is the Doodle. Simple - quite bold, but not obvious? I got obsessed with sad looking faces, as I just found out that I find (God, no more drinking for me) sadness much more sophisticated than happiness or joy. Am I having a depression? No....t yet. 

And here's the process!

(I liked it already at this point!)

(I swear to God, with linocuts you don't even have to print them - they look amazing as a <quite flat> 3D form!)

(first colour!)

(second colour!)

(First and second colour combined together!)

(Third colour!)

Finished! I skipped the fourth colour in my documentation, as I am simply a moron. The last one was black and it wonderfully emphasised the colours I used before.

That's the bad boy we printed with. 

That's me being pseudo-artistic social media whoooo... Person.

And now, lovely scanned, yet not cropped cause I hate doing this versions of my prints! 

I need to come to relief printing - I think me and this process like each other. It definitely adds to my a bit too conventional style, the one I've been said looks like - I knew how to draw those things for far too long and thus it's a bit predictable and boring. Relief kind of undo this feel! Therefore, see you (hopefully) soon, relief printing department!