*You are about to read THE visual journal of Hong Li Peng. The author is no longer apologetic about his bad English as he has gotten over it. This journal documents the works of the author as well as his thought processes throughout the journey. As a bonus, there is a video, completely free of charge. And Joy.

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This was during the week of submission, not a lot of stress as I was actually enjoying the process. With close to infinite paper, I could keep experimenting new ideas, constantly thinking made the journey to the end pretty fun.

I wanted to experiment more with the paper…

A friend of mine was trying to make circle shapes, so it kind of influenced me to try making circles as well. This idea was pretty simple. i just rolled up a a paper towel. The effect was so-so, I was expecting it look a lot better.

Then I tried this with one of my favorite ideas, the rolling of the paper towel to make vines…

This was harder then it looks… The paper towels do not stay rolled up and after using for 4 -5 times a new one had to be used as the old one had already too much ink on it for the texture to be clear. But it was a turned out very well. The spirals were very unique and created kind of a galaxy like effect.

Now to the main topic of this post. The Random Print Generator.

This is a link to the video mentioned in the opening. Do not worry, there are no Ads.

*Just a video to show the process. This is the only printing process I recorded, but for majority of my paper prints the technique was the same. The paper was just too thick to go into the mono-printing machine provided in the 2D room. So most of the time I had to use a chair. It was more fun that way though.

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This was how the RPG all began…

This was the initial idea.

I was trying to make a slip for the 2D assignment, one that would show the difference between a twisted up paper towel and a twisted up A3 paper. As I suspected, they were very different indeed as one was soft and the other was hard. But what caught my attention after trying to get a better print was that the A3 paper never made the same mark. The mark was similar, but never completely the same. Same same but different.

So I got to trying more of it and these are the results…

The photos I do don’t really do these prints justice. They have way too many details in them.

All these prints are completely random, but that is what makes them so interesting. This was due to the thickness of the A3 twisted papers and how I mono-print. I used a chair, each time I pushed down on the paper was a different location and a different force. The A3 would act accordingly. It was thicker and more resistant then the paper towels. The paper towels would stick to the ink after one press, But not the A3s, they would sort of bounce back up. And as my force and direction varied, so did marks they left on the ink board. This created these extremely random prints.

These are some of my favorite prints. Below are some of the interesting things I found on them.

These were just some of the things I picked up. I will cover more of them when in my final assignment. But the Random Print Generator didn’t fail me. Lucky me.