This is just a quick old ramble about placement prints! While I was at Mudpie.com doing work experience I was a print designer's assistant. I was in charge of hand drawing and illustrating elements for their prints. I have all the original but unfortunately havn't been able to get my hands on the prints they made them into. So, I have been making my own! First up, here are a handful of my favourite drawings.
Pen illustration of Crows and Jackdaws
Pen illustration of flower 'explosion'
Stylized pen illustration of tall flower
Silhouette style pen illustration
"Rolled paper" pen illustration, this is one of my favourites.
Orchid illustration, another of my favourites. Which apparently looks a bit phallic too...
Dandelion pen illustration
Stylized "cardboard" rose illustration
Ball of flowers, another favourite pen illustration
Ball of paper lantern flowers, reminds me slightly of CD artwork from The Shins for some reason.
So there are my drawings, I was really quite pleased with the work I did there, and I really improved my drawing skills too. So far I have done a couple of placement prints with a few of these guys, but I plan to do a lot more and also some repeats to go alongside.
This one shows a placement of the silhouette flower overlaying a flat vector of the drawing, with a small spray of pink spraypaint. Because the prints were going on Tshirts and vests, I wanted to give the print a slightly edgy feel, rather than being too girly.
This on is from the "ball of flowers" drawing. I think this illustration would also work very well as a repeat print as the complexity of the lines allows a really colour shock. I like this as a placement print but I don't think it is as successful as the one above.
I will add more bits and bobs as I finish them!
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