I selected one of my favourite subject matter drawings for this exercise where my aim was to create a car in my own style but with some of Brian Biggs' techniques and methods of doing things.
For the inked lines around the edges of the drawing I decided to use intaglio instead of standard brush and ink. I did this because I have enjoyed working in this way in the past and I wanted to take this style and develop it further.
Here is a little snap of my print plate when I had finished scratching it out.
and another of my inking up the print plate ready to do some printing with it.
I used a standard printing press to squash my print plate down onto some slightly dampened paper so that the ink would be drawn out of my scratch marks in the desired areas.
And this is what the result looked like. The line work was complete so I then needed to scan this into photoshop and begin colouring it.
by using the magnetic lasso tool I was able to colour each area on a separate layer by using the drawing itself as a guideline.
Once all the colouring was complete I wanted to set the car on a background and similar to Brian's work where he uses real life textures, I used a full on real life background to situate my car in. Also including a bit of shadow around the car which kind of roots it to the page a bit better.
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