03 Chen Ziyan

Step 1: Lino Sketch

Draft/Sketch of my line drawing of cat on a piece of paper

Step 2: Carving of Sketch on Lino

Process of lino cutting the drawing 

[almost finishing]

Step 3: Completed Lino Cut

Completed carving out the sketch on lino and ready for printing

Step 4: Lino Print (1)

I used paint/ink to print my lino drawing on a piece of white paper

[first print]

Lino Print (2)

After some adjustments and improvements from my first print, I printed a second print

[second print]

1. Tracing on the picture itself

trace out the face shape and mark out the shadows with a pencil. Shade the areas where you want to see on the lino print

2. Tracing on the reverse side of the picture

With the use of a light box, trace out the reverse picture on the other side of the paper with a 4B pencil

3. Outline of the drawing on the lino

With the use of a carbon paper and a ballpoint pen, trace out the reversed portrait on the lino. After that, use a permanent marker and darken/mark out and shade the portrait. (shade the parts where you want to keep)

4. colour scheme

Choose 2 contrasting colour. (I chose yellow and blue) Then use the lighter colour as the skin colour and darker colour as the background. The others would be left as white.

6. 1st printing 

Use the colour you decided (skin colour) and print your first print. 

(Instead of yellow, I changed my colour to peach colour- skin colour)

7. 2nd printing

repeat step 6 a few more times until u get a solid colour. (at least 3 to 5 times)

7. test printing

Using the carved lino, do a test print of the background colour you have decided. For me, it is pink. (Instead of blue, I changed to pink) The first test print turned out very solid and clean, but I still did a few more as I only have 2 1st print (skin colour) and it is not really good. 

8. 3rd printing

I did it on another type of paper compared to the test print. Thus, it turned out to have quite some white spots.

9. 4th printing

I am quite satisfied with this print as the colour is very solid

12. test print 

After carving the lino, have a test print to see whether the colour is solid and if there are spaces your forgot to cut. For me, I think the colur is quite solid and there isn't any black spots, which I did not cut deep enough. However, I forgot to cut a few space on top of my head. 

13. 5th printing 

After I cut the spaces on top of my head, which I forgot, I printed it on my pink background. I think it is still okay but there is a few white spots and there is a few black spots on my background.

14. 6th printing

As I am not very satisfied with my fifth print, I did another print on a different paper. I like that the colour is very solid. However, there are many black spots on the background and shirt.

15. 7th printing

My skin colour has a lot of white spots, and it is too dark that the pink ink could not cover it completely, therefore I re-printed the pink background a few times (before). Then, I printed the last print with black ink and it turned out quite okay as the ink is very solid. However, i think I used too much ink as the background and shirt also has some black spots.

16. 8th printing

My skin colour is too dark and has many white spots. Thus, the pink, which is lighter than the peach, could not cover it completely even after a few round of re-printing. However, I feel the black ink is very solid, just that there are a few black spots.