Sample

Trying out different textures:

Final Pieces

Story: Dumbo

Lino-cut 1: An elephant from a circus looks to the sky, prays and patiently waits for a child. She receives a baby, who is wrapped in a cloth package delivered by a stork and dropped down from the sky.

This piece uses an imbalance composition, where there is a heavier visual weightage on the left than the right. This allows the parachute package to stand out and become the focus when the audience first look at it.

Lino-cut 2: Mother elephant watches Dumbo fly for the first time. Dumbo looks scared and unconfident, but mother is smiling and looking at him with pride.

In general, both lino-prints show the following textures:

• Wrinkles of the elephants’ skin
• Wood grain of the wooden crate and fencing
• Fluffy/Layering clouds
• Stains on the old tents

Both prints also make use of a curved horizon to separate the sky and ground.

After the test printing, I realized the paint gives an inconsistent tone to the overall print. It was unexpected but the effect (slight grainy texture) was a suitable texture for my dark sky and sand ground.

Therefore, little was done to the background. Texture is mostly given to the key things (e.g. characters, circus tents) that I wish to highlight and give more emphasis to the details.

Takeaway for this Project

Tools are very important to get the best carves and effects you want. However, blunt tools also give unexpecting effects such as unclean cuts that appear to look like elephant skin wrinkles.

There is definitely room for improvement. I feel that I could have done better for this project and come up with something better.

Production

Sketches:

Carve Process and Finalized Lino-cut:

Test Print: