Halftone Silkscreen Print

  After printing 7-8 colors on my silkscreen book (which I will post fully soon), I wanted to see if I can get away with printing the next ones using CMYK halftones. This way there are only 4 colors- Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black.

    It was a great idea in theory, since it was less work printing. But, man, registering the halftones are a pain! The process does give a different look with the print, though.

    I used an old digital illustration (featuring the War Sadhu) to test it out. Right now, I'm sketching out the new prints, but I haven't decided which way I'm gonna print them- halftones or solid colors.

Book. Done.

Finally got my book done! Woot woot. I'll post the pages soon.

 

This is all the books finally printed and cut down. Preparing to staple down with a saddle stapler... A very long and grueling process.

Back to Work... More proofs...

It's a lot of work. But the further I get, the more excited I get to see the final outcome. Each time, I learn something new on printing but also find new mistakes. Definitely a learning curve.

ClyCards ad

 Can you find my illustration? This is from a freelance gig I did creating illustrations for http://www.clycards.com ! Check it out.

Flower Girl

Jpeg of the Digital guide

  Another new print! I'm cranking these out the last few days. This was a revamp of an old ink drawing that I did in an Inking class.

This print is for sale for $5 and measures 16x12.5

 "Flower Girl" is a 5-color silkscreen print (blue, pink, white, black, and silver transparency) on craft paper. The paper was a bit crinkled and the paint made some of the layers a bit shiny. But, regardless, I'm really happy how it came out!

What it looked like on the Laptop monitor

 It started out in Photoshop. I use a Cintiq connected to my laptop. It's a bit screwey sometimes, since the 2 monitors show different colors. My laptop always show the duller colors.

What it looked like on the Cintiq, preparing the screens

 After creating a digital guide (each color is set on separate layers), each layer is turned black and white. I, then, print them on tracing vellum to become my separations.

5 separations printed on tracing vellum

Guy + Girl + City

A/P (Artist Proof) on White Vellum, go for cheaper- $15

     I finally finished that print I was working on a few weeks ago. It came out really nice, but due to some registration and transparency problems- I only have an Edition of 10 (6 of which doesn't have the last screen yet).

On Cream, Canson Edition Paper

     Regardless, I loved how it came out. They are printed on very nice Canson Edition Printmaking paper- Wheat and Cream (my favorite!). I'm selling them for $20.

On Wheat, Canson Edition Paper

     I also updated the Printmaking page of my blog, so check it out! If you guys are interested in purchasing a print, just e-mail me at aldenviguilla(a)gmail.com!

I didn't realize I made the blue too dark, since it was the first color I printed

     This was actually the digital guide to the separations. Unfortunately, the silkscreen paints aren't true to the Photoshop/ Monitor colors, so they always come out different.

Zephyr 1, First Pages...

New Silkscreen Print!!!

I had my reservations at first, but really liked how it came out with the outlines

Since I'm having problems with the Zephyr book, I decided to start a silkscreen print. It only took a few hours to finish because I had the colors pretty much separated from a previous digital coloring attempt.

It's great to see how the colors turn out once printed, since it's always a little different that what I originally intended.

There's one layer left to do, a gradient, but here's a preview!

Zephyr 1, Book In-Progress

My first silkscreen book is in progress! Here are the sketches. Coming Soon!

Tug of War, Accordian Book

 I did 3 variations blue/ yellow, yellow/ blue, and "bootleg" white-- ha!

     I finally finished my first Silkcreen Accordian Book. I tried to make it easy for myself, since the end product would have a panaromic feel to it. So, I decided to do a Tug of War.

I printed in Vanilla, Cream, Wheat, and White paper to see the difference.

     I used 6 screens/ colors- orange, blue, yellow, pink, and dark red for the outline. I did them with transparency, so that where the colors overlapped- they created green, darker green, purple, and brown. It's always great to do that. You get more colors and save yourself time!

     I did run into a few problems, mostly with registration. You can on some of these images, where the colors didn't perfectly meet. Where the orange, yellow, blue, and pink overlapped- was supposed to be brown (the hair and the rope).

     I designed it so that the 2 teams had "team colors". The first team had dark green and green. The other had blue and purple. This was inspired by retro swimsuits.

     I also got rid of the outside outlines and only left the ones inside or where the colors met. I thought that was a nice touch.

     At the end of the book, also had the female audience. I made them pink and purple, so they sank a bit on the background.

     I continued them on the back of the accordian book. It was kind of an after-thought, but I thought it added to the look of the book.

    These are the "guides" I did in Photoshop to kind of test how the colors would overlap or look. Which of course, didn't exactly translate into silkscreen since the silkscreen paint have a different tone.

     These were the inks before I removed the outlines.

     I hope you like it!