Wednesday, December 15, 2010

What am I made out of?!

So I decided that it would be cool to put up all the layers that I used in one of my screenprints. This will allow you to get an inside look at what went into it. Dissection time!

 You remember this lovely guy. Just for the record, Leigh Bowery is a fairly large idol of mine. If you don't know him, GET TO. 

 So this is the original image I used for the print, I scanned it from a book.
 I erased the background, leaving a single Leigh, floating in the unknown. 
 In order to expose the image on the screen I had to change it to a halftone (I love halftonesssss!). This means that all the photo information is turned into little dots of varying sizes. I won't go too much into halftones for they are wacky. Just note the little dots when you bring up the full size image.  

These are all the layers I printer off the computer for the silkscreen. The squiggle lines all represent a different color to be printed under the halftone image. There are a few layers missing that I drew out on acetate (the flat pink later and the two outline layers). 

This post may not make any sense to you, oh well. Just dance.

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